Brighton & Hove Albion 1-0 Tottenham Hotspur: Premier League – live!

4.21pm EST 16:21

Here’s Nick Ames’s report from the Amex.

Trossard earns Brighton first home win of season against Tottenham

4.20pm EST 16:20

Leandro Trossard, the goalscorer, speaks.

It’s a great result, we were nearly there against Fulham. It’s a sweet win. We waited a long time, we were the better team and it feels great. We always try to finish off those moves and I am really happy that we could score. We needy to go on now. We could have made it 2-0 and we defended well. Tottenham is a great team and we knew they would come at us.

4.11pm EST 16:11

Mike in Devizes is not happy: “Jose’s face (82 mins) is not as much a picture of anger and despondency as mine, or most Spurs fans I know. Get this toxic dinosaur out of my club.”

4.10pm EST 16:10

Look at the table. Poor reading for Spurs, who have dropped from being top in mid-December to 11 off the lead. And Brighton may be fourth from bottom but have a decent gap on the bottom three.

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Final score: Brighton 1-0 Tottenham

A first home win of the season brings huge celebrations. Spurs slope off and Mourinho’s expression is one of someone who has just swallowed some dog worming tablets. Tottenham were rubbish, Gareth Bale anonymous but Brighton deserved that. Trossard’s goal was excellent. And they rarely looked in much danger.

4.06pm EST 16:06

90+4 min: Spurs seeking a hail Mary, a miracle. Burn again does his job by heading away. And that’s it. All over.

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90+3 min: Burn heads away and then Alderweireld is fouled by Mac Allister to eat up more time. Sanchez finds Burn in the corner who holds it up there in the style of Martin Johnson. And they win a corner too.

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90+2 min: Lamela and Son both have shots blocked. Brighton retreating all the way back in heavy numbers.

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90 min: Brighton kick for territory like a rugby team. Tottenham can’t get out.

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89 min: Brighton take their time over the corner. Tottenham try to break but March is fouled and more time can be eaten up.

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88 min: Son has to go back to try and win the ball back. Brighton holding the ball in the corner, and win a corner.

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87 min: Alderweireld goes off with a blood injury after his heroics and comes back on. A free-kick for Lamela to bend in. Or shoot? He shoots straight into Sanchez. A sorry waste.

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84 min: Oh my, Lamela almost plays in Moura then Brighton charge on, and should have scored. Gross gets through and centres the ball. Connolly has the goal gaping but somehow Alderweireld gets across. Was the Irishman too casual?

3.54pm EST 15:54

82 min: José is wearing the face of the Lowry Hotel’s most famous guest, and chunnering away to himself. If Tottenham do rescue something, they have been poor. And will have been very lucky.

Jose Mourinho looking glum. Photograph: Tottenham Hotspur FC/Getty Images

Updated at 3.55pm EST

3.53pm EST 15:53

81 min: The last ten minutes and a big push from Tottenham. Or a damp squib? A penalty claim as the ball comes off Ben White but it came off his chest and not arm.

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79 min: Two Brighton subs. Off go Trossard and Maupay. On come Lallana and Connolly, a speedy forward and an old, calm head.

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78 min: Trossard is down, and he took a knock after a foul took place after an offside decision. That’s one of the pitfalls of just playing on, as they do for…a reason that escapes me and most others.

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77 min: Tottenham – at last – putting on some pressure and Brighton’s defence is edging further backwards.

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75 min: Son, from deep, tries a shot. That’s too far to trouble Sanchez, who is called upon to make a far more difficult save from Vinicius. The ball was creeping in at the near post. Does the Spurs revival start here?

3.45pm EST 15:45

73 min: Rhys emails in: “Disappointing stupunditry I’m afraid. We are informed that Tottenham’s starting XI is the first not to include a single Englishman. There are three Welshmen though. Three Welshmen are not ersatz Englishmen are they … any more than Lloris is. Being a Brit Twit isn’t a good look. Try to avoid it eh.”

You will have to point out where I said Welshmen were Englishmen. Did you miss the reference to Cliff Jones?

Updated at 3.47pm EST

3.43pm EST 15:43

71 min: Ndombele is down again. And writhing. He got caught on the side of the foot by Maupay. Was it deliberate? Difficult to say.

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70 min: Moura has heavy traffic ahead of him. And when Davies on the other flank tries a cross, Ben White stops the danger.

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68 min: Mac Allister – again – has a shot blocked, and it dribbles to a grateful Lloris. There are claims for a handball. None given.

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67 min: Brighton have been defending well, and that’s a clear invocation of the commentator’s/MBMer’s curse.

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66 min: Bergwijn tries to make his way through but the ball gets stuck under his feet. Then Alderweireld is booked for a fairly cynical hack on Mac Allister. A reducer on the danger man that looked like.

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65 min: Jose does not look happy and he can be heard urging Lucas Moura on in Portuguese.

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64 min: Moura might add some more speed to Tottenham, and Brighton seem to have sat off already. That seems a dangerous strategy. Mac Allister remains dangerous though, and Alderweireld has to come across to stop him.

Updated at 3.36pm EST

3.33pm EST 15:33

62 min: Off goes Bale. He looked well off it, let’s be honest. What next for him? The MLS? Retirement? The Open?

Tottenham Hotspur’s Portuguese head coach Jose Mourinho gestures on the touchline as Tottenham Hotspur’s Welsh striker Gareth Bale (L) leaves the game. Photograph: Andrew Boyers/AFP/Getty Images

Updated at 3.37pm EST

3.32pm EST 15:32

61 min: Another Spurs change is imminent, and it’s Lucas Moura to come on. And it’s going to be Bale, isn’t it?

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59 min: We are informed that Tottenham’s starting XI is the first not to include a single Englishman. There are three Welshmen though – Bale, Rodon and Davies. Cliff Jones would be proud.

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58 min: Tottenham playing better but Brighton still creating chances, and still probably the better team. Trossard gets the ball in for March and Alderweireld has to make a block.

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56 min: Veltman’s header from Gross’s corner. Then White shoots from the edge of the six-yard box and Lloris is forced to make a low save. He might just have kept Tottenham in this one.

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3.25pm EST 15:25

53 min: Bale chase down the ball but settles for a corner on the right-hand side. He takes it too. It was their first corner all night. Vinicius gets a header in, and Brighton keeper Sanchez makes a save, and with his legs. That’s by far the closest Tottenham have come.

Carlos Vinicius heads at goal. Photograph: Andrew Boyers/PA

Updated at 3.39pm EST

3.23pm EST 15:23

52 min: Son, at last, has a shot. Webster gets in the way. Actual Tottenham pressure. A brief claim for a penalty but it came off Webster’s chest.

Updated at 3.24pm EST

3.22pm EST 15:22

50 min: Ndombele seeing more of the ball. But he’s also turned it over too. José will not like that.

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49 min: Brighton seem to want to push it in the same style as before, and more power to them for it.

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48 min: Tottenham perhaps more vigorous so far in the few moments of this half. There will have been a Portuguese flea in their ears.

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46 min: So Spurs have a striker. What difference does it make? Let’s see.

3.17pm EST 15:17

Looks like José Mourinho didn’t stay long in the Tottenham dressing room. TV pictures show him hanging around outside. There’s a half-time switch. On comes Vinicius, off goes Davinson Sanchez.

3.12pm EST 15:12

More on José from the readers. Justin: “To add to your earlier readers’ points about watching Seagulls mobbing Cockerels etc. Having watched the Peacocks of Leeds spreading their feathers with such flair earlier, I think we can all agree that the dodo will make a comeback before Mourinho’s brood take wing in similar style. Mark is right: Time for Spurs to give him the bird.”

Justin, the original one, says: “Just to clarify, I am a long-time Spurs fan. I am wearing a Tom Huddlestone-era shirt as I watch and type this. I am adjusting to this new “philosophy”.”

And George: This game is giving me flashbacks of the 3-0 defeat that was perhaps the final nail in the coffin for the Pochettino dynasty. Will the Amex be the signal for the downfall of another Tottenham manager?”

3.03pm EST 15:03

Half-time: Brighton 1-0 Tottenham

Brighton might be disappointed they didn’t get more than Trossard’s goal. They have been superior in all departments. Spurs have been very bad. Gareth Bale has been willing enough but anyone unfamiliar with him would have no idea he was once one of the best British players of the last 20 years.

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45 min: Hjoberg tries to mount a one-man attack but runs out of room. Back goes the ball. Maupay plays Mac Allister for yet another shot. It goes wide.

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44 min: Tottenham attempt some kind of push, perhaps anticipating what is coming in the dressing room. Brighton though remains organised.

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43 min: Bale out on the left? He then moves infield to try and get on the end of a Hjoberg chip. He’s at least trying to force the issue.

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41 min: A pass to Bale is cut out. Off go Brighton again. Spurs are hemmed in. They can only resort to keeping the ball as their opponents are looking so organised.

2.55pm EST 14:55

40 min: This is very bad from Spurs. They have offered nothing in attack. Bale ties something on the right, but Brighton hold firm. There seems to be a lack of belief within Spurs. Son has been a passenger.

Gareth Bale of Tottenham Hotspur is closed down by Ben White of Brighton. Photograph: Tottenham Hotspur FC/Getty Images

Updated at 3.09pm EST

2.53pm EST 14:53

38 min: Mac Allister shoots but can only win a corner. Dunk head it, and it looks to be going in. Once again it’s Bale back doing the defensive work.

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36 min: Sissoko stops March, but did so by knocking him over. March takes the free-kick and Sissoko clears. At least he cleared up his own mess.

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34 min: Tottenham having to do more defending. Brighton’s mobile forwards are linking well compared to, well, Tottenham’s immobile forwards. Trossard’s cross almost finds March on the back post. March can’t direct the ball back infield.

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32 min: Tottenham fans are not happy. First, David. “Of course it’s obvious, as Mourinho says, that Kane is “irreplaceable”. But replacing him with a centre forward has to be worth a try.

Jason, perhaps not a Spurs fans: “I think Spurs vs. Brighton is the most Mourinho, considering the mascots. Seagulls are vicious poaching scavengers. They are not nice guys. Fighting cockerels are big, strong, developed without an obsessive view of the rules, and not always fun to watch. Mourinho’s approach is to convince fighting cockerels to play like seagulls.”

And Mark: “I don’t care we are in a final, I’ll start the whip round. Not only is he poison, it’s horrible to watch. Please, Levy. Sack him.”

2.45pm EST 14:45

30 min: Trossard sends Maupay away. Then Veltman’s cross is headed away. And what’s this? A Tottenham shot. Son – yes, remember him – charges up, Bale takes part in the move and Bergwijn wellies it wide.

2.43pm EST 14:43

28 min: Bale gets involved…by heading the ball away from a Brighton corner. At least he is showing willing but there is not much happening for him. Mourinho is pacing the sideline and looks even more disgruntled than normal.

2.41pm EST 14:41

26 min: Solly March, to use his full name, booms in a cross. Mac Allister is again involved and Ndombele heads away. He’s taken a knock after a previous clash with Mac Allister. He will be OK to continue.