Substitute Jack Hinshelwood scored together with his first contact of the ball and gave Brighton an exhilarating 3-2 win over Liverpool and stored alive its slim probability of European soccer.
If fourth-placed Chelsea wins the Europa Convention League subsequent week, there’s a probability that the eighth-placed crew within the Premier League can qualify for subsequent season’s Convention League.
Monday’s win lifted Brighton into that coveted eighth spot, three factors above Brentford, 4 forward of Fulham and 5 away from Bournemouth. Bournemouth has two video games left; the others have one.
Liverpool rested a number of starters however nonetheless took the lead after simply 9 minutes, and in doing so turned solely the third crew in Premier League historical past to attain in each one among its away video games.
Conor Bradley, in his first begin since signing a brand new four-year contract on Saturday, lower the ball again from the byline for Harvey Elliot to side-foot residence.
Brighton, although, fought again in an end-to-end encounter.
Danny Welbeck missed a golden probability after half an hour however Yasin Ayari made no mistake two minutes later to stage the rating.
Liverpool was again in entrance by the break after Dominik Szoboszlai’s memorable cross-cum-shot on the stroke of halftime.
Japanese substitute Kaoru Mitoma equalized within the 69th, simply 4 minutes after his introduction. It was his third aim in 4 video games, all of them as a late substitute.
Hinshelwood then stole in on the again publish to transform Matt O’Riley’s low cross and, though the offside flag was raised, the aim was given after a video evaluate.
It was a successful introduction for Hinshelwood, who got here on alongside his 17-year-old cousin Harry Howell. Howell additionally made historical past by changing into Brighton’s youngest ever Premier League participant.
