Despite being two goals behind at half-time, Brighton & Hove Albion defeated Tottenham Hotspur with a brilliant second-half comeback. Relive the match and analyse the Opta data with our Brighton vs Tottenham stats page.
Brighton staged a phenomenal second-half comeback, as they came from two goals down to win 3-2 after second-half goals from Yankuba Minteh, Georginio Rutter and Danny Welbeck.
Brennan Johnson continued his excellent form of late with the opening goal of the match on 23 minutes before James Maddison added a second eight minutes before half-time.
Few would have expected Brighton to recover from a poor first half in which opponents Spurs dominated throughout, but three goals in the space of 18 second-half minutes secured an unlikely three points.
Welbeck’s match-winning strike saw him score for the fourth time in the Premier League this season, while it was his first against Spurs in the Premier League since January 2014 (for Manchester United), ending a run of 13 games against them in the competition without scoring.
Our Opta match centre delivers you all the Brighton vs Tottenham stats from their Premier League meeting at the American Express Stadium in Brighton.
The match centre below includes team and player stats, expected goals data, passing networks, an Opta chalkboard and more. It gives you everything you need to do your own in-game and post-match analysis.
Underneath the match centre you can find the official Opta stats on the game as well.
Brighton & Hove Albion vs Tottenham Hotspur: Post-Match Facts
- Tottenham Hotspur lost a Premier League game they led by 2+ goals in for just the second time in their last 166 such matches (W159 D5), also losing 4-2 away to Manchester City in January 2023 having also gone in 2-0 up at half-time.
- This is the 10th time that Tottenham have lost a Premier League game in which they led by 2+ goals, the first club to hit double figures for this, and at least three more than any other side in the competition’s history.
- Tottenham’s Brennan Johnson has scored in each of his last six appearances in all competitions, the first Spurs’ player to do so since Harry Kane between December 2018 and January 2019.
- Johnson has now netted more goals in 10 appearances this season (6) than across 34 total outings for Spurs in 2023-24 (5).
- Danny Welbeck scored his 27th Premier League for Brighton, but just his second winning goal for the Seagulls, also netting what proved to be the winning goal in a 2-1 victory over Leicester City in September 2021.
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