Brighton & Hove Albion 1-0 Crystal Palace: Solly March winner keeps up European push

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By Steve SutcliffeBBC Sport

Last updated connected 5 minutes ago.From the conception Premier League

Brighton maintained their pursuit of European shot with a constrictive Premier League triumph implicit struggling rivals Crystal Palace.

Solly March's extremity proved decisive for the Seagulls and punished a Palace broadside who spurned 3 bully chances to instrumentality power of the crippled successful the opening 10 minutes.

While Wilfried Zaha, Odsonne Edouard and Michael Olise were incapable to marque the breakthrough for the Eagles, March delivered a objective decorativeness into the bottommost near country from Kaoru Mitoma's incisive pass.

Roberto de Zerbi's broadside ever looked the much accomplished aft that and determination level connected 42 points with sixth-placed Liverpool, portion they are six down Tottenham successful fourth, with 2 games successful hand.

The effect volition lone deepen concerns astatine Palace of a relegation conflict aft a dismal 11-game series without a triumph that leaves them 12th but conscionable 3 points supra the bottommost three.

In that period, they person managed to people conscionable 4 top-flight goals and manager Patrick Vieira chopped a frustrated fig successful the method country arsenic his side's attacking shortfalls were again exposed.

However, helium could person fewer complaints astir the show of goalkeeper Joe Whitworth connected his Palace debut - a memorable nighttime for the 19-year-old arsenic helium deputised for the injured Vicente Guaita.

The teenager, who grew up arsenic an Eagles protagonist and was besides a nine shot boy, was fixed small accidental by March's unerring decorativeness but kept his broadside successful the crippled aft the interruption by superbly redeeming Pervis Estupinan's debased changeable and an Alexis Mac Allister header.

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Brighton & Hove Albion

Squad number23Player nameSteele
Squad number34Player nameVeltman
Squad number5Player nameDunk
Squad number6Player nameColwill
Squad number30Player nameEstupiñán
Squad number13Player nameGroß
Squad number25Player nameCaicedo
Squad number7Player nameMarch
Squad number10Player nameMac Allister
Squad number22Player nameMitoma
Squad number18Player nameWelbeck

Squad number4Player nameWebster
Squad number19Player nameSarmiento
Squad number20Player nameEnciso
Squad number28Player nameFerguson

Crystal Palace

Squad number41Player nameWhitworth
Squad number17Player nameClyne
Squad number16Player nameAndersen
Squad number6Player nameGuéhi
Squad number3Player nameMitchell
Squad number8Player nameSambi Lokonga
Squad number28Player nameDoucouré
Squad number15Player nameSchlupp
Squad number7Player nameOlise
Squad number22Player nameÉdouard
Squad number11Player nameZaha

Squad number9Player nameJ Ayew
Squad number10Player nameEze
Squad number14Player nameMateta
Squad number29Player nameAhamada

Line-ups

Brighton

Formation 4-2-3-1

23Steele
34Veltman
5Dunk
6Colwill
30Estupiñán
13Groß
25CaicedoBooked astatine 60mins
7MarchSubstituted forWebsterat 90+1'minutes
10Mac AllisterSubstituted forSarmientoat 88'minutes
22MitomaSubstituted forEncisoat 79'minutes
18WelbeckSubstituted forFergusonat 79'minutes

Substitutes

1Sánchez
4Webster
19Sarmiento
20Enciso
21Undav
27Gilmour
28Ferguson
29van Hecke
40Buonanotte

Crystal Palace

Formation 4-3-3

41Whitworth
17Clyne
16Andersen
6Guéhi
3Mitchell
8Sambi Lokonga
28DoucouréBooked astatine 27minsSubstituted forEzeat 45'minutes
15SchluppSubstituted forAhamadaat 80'minutes
7OliseSubstituted forJ Ayewat 70'minutesBooked astatine 90mins
22ÉdouardSubstituted forMatetaat 79'minutes
11Zaha

Substitutes

2Ward
4Milivojevic
5Tomkins
9J Ayew
10Eze
14Mateta
26Richards
29Ahamada
63Goodman

Referee:Peter Bankes

Attendance:30,933

Live Text

Match ends, Brighton and Hove Albion 1, Crystal Palace 0.
Second Half ends, Brighton and Hove Albion 1, Crystal Palace 0.
Levi Colwill (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a escaped footwear successful the antiaircraft half.
Foul by Wilfried Zaha (Crystal Palace).
Attempt missed. Naouirou Ahamada (Crystal Palace) close footed changeable from the close broadside of the container misses to the left. Assisted by Eberechi Eze.
Jordan Ayew (Crystal Palace) is shown the yellowish card.
Foul by Pervis Estupiñán (Brighton and Hove Albion).
Jordan Ayew (Crystal Palace) wins a escaped footwear connected the close wing.
Substitution, Brighton and Hove Albion. Adam Webster replaces Solly March.
Levi Colwill (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a escaped footwear successful the antiaircraft half.
Foul by Jean-Philippe Mateta (Crystal Palace).
Attempt missed. Julio Enciso (Brighton and Hove Albion) close footed changeable from extracurricular the container is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Pascal Groß.
Substitution, Brighton and Hove Albion. Jeremy Sarmiento replaces Alexis Mac Allister.
Julio Enciso (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a escaped footwear successful the antiaircraft half.
Foul by Jordan Ayew (Crystal Palace).
Moisés Caicedo (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a escaped footwear successful the antiaircraft half.
Foul by Eberechi Eze (Crystal Palace).
Attempt blocked. Wilfried Zaha (Crystal Palace) close footed changeable from extracurricular the container is blocked. Assisted by Eberechi Eze.
Attempt missed. Alexis Mac Allister (Brighton and Hove Albion) close footed changeable from the near broadside of the container is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Pervis Estupiñán.
Delay over. They are acceptable to continue.

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