Elijah Adebayo scored a hat-secret as Luton Township chosen upwards a superior 4-0 win over Brighton to jump out of the Premier League’s bottom 3.
Guided by two aims in the opening two minutes and also 17 seconds, this was smoothly the hosts’ greatest Premier League win and also their the majority of governing performance.
It was made in swashbuckling pizzazz as they uncrowned an insipid Brighton to glide out of the transmit expanse for the initially time in almost two months.
Chiedozie Ogbene in a equal means netted throughout a initially half in which Roberto De Zerbi’s side just could not bargain with what came their means, a darkness of the crew that won the corresponding component 4-1 on the opening weekend.
Luton lugged out a overture beyond manager Rob Edwards’ the majority of rose-tinted hunches.
Adebayo headed his initially after 19 seconds. Ogbene recovered the ball on the side of the box and also gone across to the much post towards Carlton Morris.
The Hatters captain, leaping determinedly overhead his pen, responded recommend across impulse to Adebayo, who obtained there in days gone by goalkeeper Jason Steele to convert.
Brighton scarcely owned time to draw breath in days gone by it was two.
Albert Sambi Lokonga’s pinpoint enact sagged in behind the clients’ protection, which owned pressed upwards, leaving a proper race to the ball between Ogbene and also Steele.
It was won smoothly by the fleet-footed Luton winger who toed it beyond the keeper and also, with 137 seconds on the clock, poked proper into an empty impulse to cap a superior overture.
Rarely ever before, if ever before, have Brighton under De Zerbi – who owns been tied with the Liverpool openings this week – been so blown away as they were in the opening 25 minutes.
Jordan Clark came comfortable to concocting better harms once he cut in on his vacated foot and also owned a inoculation clogged by the legs of Steele.
By after that, De Zerbi owned already wasted James Milner to injury, with any pre-video game sham to stymie Luton sinking proper into chaos.
The stats claimed Brighton owned gleaned 60 per dime ownership but almost all of it owned been in their horribly own half, perishable themselves in circles in a bid to navigate Luton’s ravenous high pressuring.
Pascal Gross scooped a inoculation auxiliary in hope than expectation from exterior the box as the Seagulls struggled to come to stipulation with their predicaments.
Lewis Dunk directed clear of Adebayo with a gently-timed last-ditch slide inside the six-yard box as the striker bore down scary to wrap the video game upwards after 35 minutes, in days gone by Clark owned his 2nd sweet try of the night spread inches wide.
It was a fast-lived reprieve.
Adebayo’s 2nd and also Luton’s thirdly was a heirloom and also owed whatever to the timing of the striker’s sprinted, hanging just behind Brighton’s defensive pitch until Ross Barkley launched his enact.
The layer reproved past Steele at his foreseeable post.
Brighton owned won 3 of their previous 15 league galleries, victories this period period being propped upwards by advance in Europe and also in the FA Mug.
Here, they unveiled nothing of the form that saw them overture the project with five victories out of six.
Luton’s aims were receiving less complicated to come by.
In the 55th min Adebayo ended up his hat-secret, pioneering in Alfie Doughty’s side from among a static Brighton protection, the only movement towards the ball unborn from striker Joao Pedro who accidentally turned it proper into his assorted digit’s path.
Thomas Kaminski lugged out a late conserve from Danny Welbeck which was noble of his outfield crew-mates’ exertions.
For Brighton, it owned been a chastening night.
