Diego Gómez hits another stunner as Brighton beat 10-man Brentford to go second
Diego Gomez's long-range strike fires Brighton to a 2-0 over Brentford, who saw Igor Thiago be shown a straight red card, as Fabian Hurzeler's side move up to second in the Premier League.
Key points
- Who can stop Brighton’s ascension in English and European football?
- If Keith Andrews’s team, and their fans at the Amex Stadium, could level blame at a couple of refereeing decisions, they received little chance of rescuing anything.
- Not in November 2026, where they appear the only team capable of throwing down any sort of challenge to Arsenal.
Under low winter sun, Brentford, an opposition to which Brighton are often, if lazily, compared, were swatted aside.
A second‑place position in the Premier League would once have read like a glitch in a Football Manager session.
Additional details
- They are setting standards, practices leaving almost everybody else trailing in their wake.
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