Chelsea 1-3 Brighton & Hove Albion: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 27 September 2025
Result
Chelsea 1-3 Brighton & Hove Albion
Premier League · Saturday 27 September 2025, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
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Chelsea 1-3 Brighton & Hove Albion: match report
Chelsea were beaten by Brighton & Hove Albion 1-3 in the Premier League on Saturday 27 September 2025. It was 1-0 at half-time.
Enzo Fernández opened the scoring in the 24th minute. Chelsea's goal came from Enzo Fernández (24'). Brighton & Hove Albion scored through Danny Welbeck (77'), Maxim De Cuyper (90+2') and Danny Welbeck (90+10').
Discipline: Chelsea received 3 yellow cards and 1 red card; Brighton & Hove Albion received 6 yellow cards.
Going into the game Chelsea were 6th on 8 points from 5 and Brighton & Hove Albion 15th on 5 points from 5. Chelsea went on to finish that season 10th with 52 points, and Brighton & Hove Albion 8th with 53.
Chelsea lined up in a 4-3-3 and Brighton & Hove Albion in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Danny Welbeck of Brighton & Hove Albion (8.0), ahead of Jan Paul van Hecke (7.5).
Key events
- 9'Yellow card · Joël Veltman
- 24'Goal · Enzo Fernández
- 42'Yellow card · Marc Cucurella
- 53'Red card · Trevoh Chalobah
- 64'Yellow card · Mats Wieffer
- 66'Yellow card · Reece James
- 77'Goal · Danny Welbeck
- 89'Yellow card · Benoît Badiashile
- 89'Yellow card · Jan Paul van Hecke
- 90'Yellow card · Lewis Dunk
- 90+2'Goal · Maxim De Cuyper
- 90+10'Goal · Danny Welbeck
- 90+11'Yellow card
- 90+11'Yellow card · Danny Welbeck
Head-to-head
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Chelsea line-up (4-3-3)
Robert Sánchez, Reece James, Trevoh Chalobah, Jorrel Hato, Marc Cucurella, Andrey Santos, M. Caicedo, Enzo Fernández, Estêvão, João Pedro, Pedro Neto
Brighton & Hove Albion line-up (4-2-3-1)
Bart Verbruggen, Joël Veltman, Jan Paul van Hecke, Lewis Dunk, Ferdi Kadıoğlu, Carlos Baleba, Yasin Ayari, Yankuba Minteh, Diego Gómez, Kaoru Mitoma, Georginio Rutter