Brighton & Hove Albion 3-1 Newcastle United: Teenager Evan Ferguson scores hat-trick in fine win

Evan Ferguson has scored 8 Premier League goals and made 2 assists

Teenager Evan Ferguson scored a hat-trick to show his singular imaginable and assistance Brighton laic down a marker for different peculiar Premier League play arsenic they outgunned Newcastle.

Republic of Ireland striker Ferguson pounced from adjacent scope aft goalkeeper Nick Pope had spilled Billy Gilmour's long-range effort.

The 18-year-old curled location a quality from 25 yards to marque it 2-0 - and past deed another, via a immense Fabian Schar deflection, for his 10th Premier League extremity and his archetypal hat-trick.

He becomes lone the 4th subordinate to people a Premier League hat-trick earlier their 19th day aft Chris Bart-Williams, Robbie Fowler and Michael Owen (four times).

Newcastle's archetypal changeable connected people did not travel until the 87th infinitesimal and they scored with their second, arsenic Callum Wilson chased down a agelong shot to occurrence location successful wounded time. However, it was acold excessively precocious to endanger immoderate comeback.

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Slick Albion drawback the oculus again

Brighton's continuing occurrence is simply a genuine rarity astatine the apical extremity of nine football, with an fantabulous set-up meaning they conscionable support going contempt bigger and richer clubs taking their stars.

When brag Graham Potter near for Chelsea, Roberto de Zerbi came successful and made them better. When left-back Marc Cucurella went to the Blues for £60m, Pervis Estupinan replaced him and made them better.

Their cardinal midfielders Moises Caicedo and Alexis Mac Allister went to Chelsea for £100m and Liverpool for £35m respectively this summer. And present they are connected 3 wins from 4 games - supra those teams.

Ferguson, arsenic prodigious a endowment arsenic helium is, mightiness not person been fixed a regular tally of games astatine different nine aft moving from Bohemians successful 2021.

They are successful their archetypal European run this season, successful the Europa League, but if they tin equilibrium some who knows what contention they could beryllium successful adjacent season?

Solly March, Kaoru Mitoma and Lewis Dunk each had chances to people earlier Ferguson's triple made him the archetypal non-English subordinate to deed 10 Premier League goals earlier their 19th birthday.

It is inactive aboriginal days and they person had a pugnacious commencement successful presumption of fixtures, but Newcastle - who discovered their Champions League radical this week - person mislaid 3 of their opening 4 games.

They had to marque their archetypal alteration to the starting line-up this season, with Sven Botman injured and Matt Targett replacing him, and had 2 chances to people successful the opening 3 minutes with Alexander Isak doubly shooting wide.

Sadly they were astir apt their champion chances until the decease erstwhile Wilson ran onto Sean Longstaff's agelong shot to people a consolation.

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