Hosting a team that were on the cusp of Champions League stardom as recently as the 2018-19 season, Brighton continued their theme of going
one better in the Europa League, where they had been denied inaugural successes by AEK Athens and Marseille on the first two matchdays.However, with the
perennial Dutch champions enduring an alarming slump and lacking a new manager bounce following the sacking of Maurice Steijn, Brighton prolonged Ajax’s misfortune with a
deserved 2-0 triumph on the South Coast, where Joao Pedro and Ansu Fati wrote their names into Seagulls history.Seeing off the Amsterdam powerhouses was the perfect
tonic to a distressing five-game winless run for Roberto De Zerbi’s troops, who gave a good account of themselves away to Manchester City last weekend and were a man up in the
dying embers owing to Manuel Akanji’s red card, but the champions still prevailed 2-1.Facing all of Chelsea, Ajax, Man City, Aston
Villa, Liverpool and Marseille represented a particularly gruelling set of fixtures for Brighton, whose three-game winless run in the
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top flight has bumped them down to seventh in the division, four points adrift of the Champions League places.Despite their dissatisfactory set of results over the past few
weeks, Brighton’s golden touch remains well and truly alive at the Amex Stadium, where they have scored at least twice in each of their last
five games and have not drawn a blank in the Premier League since February, although few Seagulls fans will need reminding who inflicted that 1-0 loss onto them.