{"id":1238182,"date":"2022-10-29T17:42:27","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T17:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/29\/potter-suffers-first-chelsea-defeat-in-nightmare-return-to-brighton\/"},"modified":"2022-10-29T17:42:27","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T17:42:27","slug":"potter-suffers-first-chelsea-defeat-in-nightmare-return-to-brighton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/29\/potter-suffers-first-chelsea-defeat-in-nightmare-return-to-brighton\/","title":{"rendered":"Potter suffers first Chelsea defeat in nightmare return to Brighton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/3480851-70964188-2560-1440-696x392.jpg\"   alt=\"BRIGHTON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 29: Leandro Trossard of Brighton &#038; Hove Albion celebrates after scoring their team's first goal during the Premier League match between Brighton &#038; Hove Albion and Chelsea FC at American Express Community Stadium on October 29, Image credit: Getty Images\" title=\"BRIGHTON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 29: Leandro Trossard of Brighton &#038; Hove Albion celebrates after scoring their team's first goal during the Premier League match between Brighton &#038; Hove Albion and Chelsea FC at American Express Community Stadium on October 29,  Image credit: Getty Images\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">BRIGHTON, ENGLAND &#8211; OCTOBER 29: Leandro Trossard of Brighton &#038; Hove Albion celebrates after scoring their team&#8217;s first goal during the Premier League match between Brighton &#038; Hove Albion and Chelsea FC at American Express Community Stadium on October 29,<\/p>\n<p>Image credit: Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Brighton stunned Graham Potter with a 4-1 mauling of his Chelsea side on his return to his former club.<\/p>\n<p>Leandro Trossard continued his run of scoring in every game under Roberto De Zerbi with the opener after five minutes, and Ruben Loftus-Cheek turned a corner into his own net nine minutes later to put the visitors in a big hole.<\/p>\n<p>De Zerbi was chasing his first victory as Brighton boss, and he appeared to have gotten his tactics spot on with a surprise switch to a back four.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Brighton were threatening every time they went forward, and only two heroic clearances from Thiago Silva kept the score down.<\/p>\n<p>Just before half-time though, Brighton got their third after Pervis Estupinan raced down the left and fizzed a ball into the near post. Trevoh Chalobah got the final touch, but Japan winger Kaoru Mitoma would have scored if the Chelsea defender hadn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Kepa was replaced by Edouard Mendy at half-time, with the Spanish goalkeeper apparently suffering an injury.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea needed to start fast in the second half and they did just that when Kai Havertz drifted away from his defender to head home Connor Gallagher\u2019s excellent cross.<\/p>\n<p>The match was on a knife-edge, but Brighton held fast and continued to threaten on the break.<\/p>\n<p>Brighton\u2019s Paraguayan teenager Julio Enciso was thrown into the mix and immediately caused Chelsea trouble with his pace and energy.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues continued to press but the home side held on and added a fourth late on through Pascal Gross for their first ever league victory over Chelsea, and their first in all competitions since 1933.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"onu7Mw3b_Ug\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Service with integrity - Paul &amp; Silas Week 38 Episode 5\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/onu7Mw3b_Ug?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRIGHTON, ENGLAND &#8211; OCTOBER 29: Leandro Trossard of Brighton &#038; Hove Albion celebrates after scoring their team&#8217;s first goal during the Premier League match between Brighton &#038; Hove Albion and Chelsea FC at American Express Community Stadium on October 29, Image credit: Getty Images Brighton stunned Graham Potter with a 4-1 mauling of his Chelsea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1238184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[7543,58,14,8744,13682,1970,1317],"class_list":["post-1238182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-brighton","tag-chelsea","tag-defeat","tag-nightmare","tag-potter","tag-return","tag-suffers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1238182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1238182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1238182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1238182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}