England Roundup: Brighton overwhelms Luton Town; Everton falls to Fulham
BRIGHTON, England (AP) — Joao Pedro and Simon Adingra scored on their debut as Brighton shrugged off Moises Caicedo’s ongoing switch saga by beating Premier League newcomer Luton 4-1 of their season opener on Saturday.
Pedro, the membership’s report signing, doubled Brighton’s lead following Solly March’s first-half opener by changing a 71st-minute penalty after being introduced down by Luton captain Tom Lockyer.
Carlton Morris slotted house from the spot on the different finish following Lewis Dunk’s handball to arrange a tense finale however Adingra capitalized on an enormous error from Pelly Ruddock Mpanzu to make it 3-1 earlier than fellow substitute Evan Ferguson added the fourth in damage time.
Brighton’s low season has been dominated by hypothesis about Caicedo, with the membership this week accepting what can be a report price for a switch in Britain of round £110 million (US$140 million) from Liverpool for the star midfielder. However, the deal has but to be accomplished, with studies saying Caicedo is intent on becoming a member of Chelsea as a substitute.
The 21-year-old Ecuador worldwide was absent from the Amex Stadium as Brighton began its first season that can characteristic European soccer.
Luton is again within the prime flight for the primary time since being relegated from the previous First Division in 1992, and was outplayed for a lot of the match. Its defeat may have been even greater had Danny Welbeck, Pascal Gross and Ferguson not all struck the woodwork.
Bournemouth 1, West Ham 1
In Bournemouth, Dominic Solanke scored a late objective to assist the house aspect salvage a 1-1 draw towards West Ham in Andoni Iraola’s debut as supervisor of the Cherries.
Solanke collected a unfastened ball within the field, rounded goalkeeper Alphonse Areola, and slotted it into the online within the 82nd minute at Vitality Stadium.
Jarrod Bowen had put the Hammers forward with a left-footed roller within the 51st.
Iraola was employed in June after Bournemouth fired Gary O’Neil, who was let go regardless of maintaining the crew within the Premier League final season with 4 matches to spare. O’Neil was employed this week as supervisor of Wolverhampton.
Iraola guided Spanish membership Rayo Vallecano to an Eleventh-place end in La Liga final season in his third yr there.
Kurt Zouma was named West Ham captain after Declan Rice’s transfer to Arsenal.
The Hammers completed 14th final season, one spot above Bournemouth.
Fulham 1, Everton 0
In Liverpool, Everton paid the value for a slew of missed probabilities by conceding within the 73rd minute to Bobby De Cordova-Reid in a 1-0 house loss to Fulham within the groups’ Premier League opener.
A brand new marketing campaign introduced new hope for Everton, which has fought to keep away from relegation in current seasons. But for all of the enhancements that supervisor Sean Dyche has revamped the summer season, it seems he has not but solved Everton’s issues in entrance of objective.
De Cordova-Reid tapped in on the far submit after Andreas Pereira slid in to get a cross over to the winger.
Everton — the Premier League’s lowest scorer final season — was once more with out striker Dominic Calvert-Lewin and generated twice as many pictures (19-9) because the guests.
Michael Keane’s first-half objective for Everton was disallowed as the middle again turned the ball into an empty web and celebrated nearly apologetically earlier than referee Stuart Attwell, having initially not blown, dominated there had been an infringement within the collision between goalkeeper Bernd Leno and James Tarkowski.
Fulham striker Aleksandar Mitrovic began on the bench after ongoing curiosity from Saudi Arabia’s Al-Hilal.
American defender Tim Ream began in his first aggressive match for Fulham since breaking his proper arm on April 30 towards Manchester City.
Crystal Palace 1, Sheffield United 0
In Sheffield, Odsonne Edouard’s objective early within the second half earned Crystal Palace a 1-0 opening win to worsen the gloom at Bramall Lane.
Edouard struck from shut vary 4 minutes after the restart in a recreation that Palace largely dominated. Jordan Ayew discovered a very good place on the right-hand aspect and despatched in a difficult low cross which Edouard stabbed in from shut vary.
Roy Hodgson’s Palace had two additional objectives disallowed, whereas Blades goalkeeper Wes Foderingham made a lot of saves to maintain his aspect within the recreation.
Hodgson was concerned in a touchline incident with Max Lowe halfway via the second half when the Blades defender — in a rush to reclaim the ball — appeared to shove the 76-year-old supervisor within the midriff. But Hodgson performed down the incident later, telling the BBC he didn’t suppose it was malicious.
Sheffield United’s return to the highest flight after two seasons away ended with a poor defeat to compound a adverse few weeks which noticed the sale of Iliman Ndiaye and Sander Berge. Manager Paul Heckingbottom acknowledged earlier than the match that his crew is “nowhere near” the place they should be, although the signing of Gustavo Hamer from Coventry in a single day had boosted the temper.
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