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Crystal Palace held high-flying Brighton & Hove Albion to a 1-1 draw in the Premier League on Saturday after James Tomkins capitalised on a calamitous error to cancel out Solly March’s opener.
The result leaves Brighton on 35 points in sixth place, while Palace are 12th with Patrick Vieira’s side yet to taste a league victory in 2023.
Brighton, who have not lost this year, were able to break through Palace’s defence numerous times in the first half, with Kaoru Mitoma seeing his angled shot denied by goalkeeper Vicente Guaita while Adam Webster also had a header go wide.
Pervis Estupinan had the ball in the net shortly after the half-hour mark but just as the Ecuadorian full back celebrated what he thought was his first goal for Brighton, VAR came to Palace’s rescue and chalked it off for offside.
The breakthrough finally came in the 63rd minute when March stole past the last defender to skilfully turn in Estupinan’s cross at the far post despite it being at an awkward height.
But Palace levelled when Brighton keeper Robert Sanchez made a mess of a straightforward catch from a set-piece, with the ball bouncing up kindly for Tomkins who headed it into an empty net.
Crystal Palace vs Brighton & Hove Albion
GOAALLLLL! MARCH SCORES! 1-0 BRIGHTON! It has been coming with March the best player on the pitch after the break. Estupinan’s curling cross from the left goes over the head of Tomkins to March who gets ahead of Mitchell to smash his effort in from close range.
Crystal Palace vs Brighton & Hove Albion
Despite going behind, Palace will still have hope. No side has won more Premier League games when conceding the first goal this season than Crystal Palace (four). Indeed, the Eagles have won twice the amount of games when conceding first (4/12) than they have when scoring first this term (2/6).
Crystal Palace vs Brighton & Hove Albion
32 of Brighton's 38 Premier League goals this season have come from open play, with the Seagulls scoring the lowest share of their goals from set-piece situations in the competition this term (16 per cent including penalties, 8 per cent excluding). All of their chances so far have come after patient play outside the Palace box. They had a fast start after the break, but have slowed down in the last 10 minutes.
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