Brighton & Hove Albion ended their 11-game winless run in the Premier League after superb goals from Leandro Trossard and Neal Maupay helped them to a 2-0 home win over Brentford on Sunday.
The result lifted Brighton to ninth place in the standings on 23 points from 17 games while Brent-ford are 13th on 20 points as Seagulls boss Graham Potter stretched his perfect record against opposite number Thomas Frank to five victories. Potter was pleased with a solid performance as Brighton cele-brated their first league win since September.
“First half especially I thought we were really good,” he told Sky Sports. “Nice to score two goals and keep a clean sheet. We needed our goalkeeper in the second half as Brentford, as you would ex-pect, responded.”
Maupay, who joined Brighton from Brentford in 2019, was relieved his team finally got back to win-ning ways. “It is not any nicer to score against my former club,” he said. “I didn’t want to celebrate because they are the club that gave me a chance four years ago.
