Carlos Baleba watched the ball run in the upper corner, then he left, turning around, jumping and screaming towards the touch to be assaulted by teammates, coaches and fans.
Brighton was never going to be happy to be satisfied with one point here on the southern coast, not when Kaoru Mitoma directed a last -minute equalizer after Mohammed Kudus and Tomas Soucek thought he had obtained a return for West Ham.
They pushed and they pushed and, in the end, they won it. Brajan Gruda found Baleba 30 meters away and West Ham Alphonse Areola was just standing and watching him pass in front of him and entering the net.
What a ridiculous, frantic and breathless football game. A match that Brighton had dominated in the first half and took a deserved lead when Yasin Ayari had wrapped his own long-range effort in the upper corner.
For West Ham, it becomes a habit. They let a late advance slide in the 93rd minute against Southampton last weekend, but it was even worse, leading to the 89th and lose it to the 92nd. He now does seven Premier League games without a victory for Graham Potter.
If Potter was sleeping by wondering what reception he could face his return to Brighton, he could have lost sleep better about the reaction he would get from his own supporters for his decision to leave Niclas Fullkrug aside.
Birighton struck two late goals to win an amazing 3-2 victory against West Ham at the Amex
Carlos Baleba watched the ball run in the upper corner in time of time and was then assaulted
Karou Mitoma had obtained the level of Seagulls with a head at close range at the last minute
Potter said in the accumulation he prefers that Fullkrug had broadcast his frustrations in private after Southampton’s higher equalizer instead of directly declaring Sky sports cameras that West Ham had a “mentality problem”.
Potter insisted, however, that his players should be able to be honest and say what they think, but it was Fullkrug who found himself left on the bench at the Amex stadium. Maybe it was just a coincidence.
Well, West Ham fans said what they also thought, don’t waste time making their feelings clearly. “Our big German f ******, he says what he wants,” they sang behind the goal.
The feeling is that Fullkrug simply said what Hammers fans have thought throughout this Abyssal Premier League campaign which sees them above the three teams promoted.
And they were justified at only 13 minutes when Ayari picked up the ball on the edge of the area and wrapped it directly in the upper corner.
Simon Adingra thought he had doubled Brighton just after half an hour also when he turned the ball after a double smart backup of Alphonse Areole only so that Mats Wieffer is in an offside position when the initial shooting of Pervis Estinian came through the crowded area of west ham.
“German law, we are F ****** SH ** e”, came the new songs of itinerant support from West Ham. “Get German on the ground,” they called.
Potter forced half-time, after hearing his players to flow the field again, bringing Fullkrug for James Ward-Prowse and, believe, West Ham equalized two minutes later-although the German was not involved this time.
Yasin Ayari picked up the ball on the edge of the area and wrapped it directly in the upper corner
Mohammed Kudus has hit his first league goal since December for the equalizer
Tomas Soucek then returned home Jarrod Bowen to give the advance to West Ham before the two goals of Brighton
West Ham is now without victory in seven after the last defeat on Saturday
Aaron Wan-Bissaka was one of the few brilliant sparks for West Ham this season and it is through him at the right back where visitors seemed the most dangerous, crossing Soucek to find the lateral net early, before playing a crucial role in the equalizer at the start of the second half.
Wan-Bissaka rolled up to the right before finding Captain Jarrod Bowen running under the chain, who withdrew the ball so that Mohammed Kudus Tape for his first league goal since December.
He almost gave West Ham well improved his head before time, pulling a shot directly on Verbruggen before putting another just above the bar.
Potter complained after Southampton that his West Ham players were unable to control a match with attacker football and that it was the same thing here. Brighton dominated the ball while West Ham was best spoken at the counterattack while the ball looked at the ball after the ball in the box. It worked almost.
Soucek saw a head of a deep bullet in the area pointed out on the bar by Bart Verbruggen before being on hand at the end to nod the head in the Jarrod Bowen cross with seven minutes to travel.
It shouldn’t be. Mitoma nodded in Gruda’s head back through the point at close range before Baleba steals the show.
