Brighton vs Chelsea LIVE: Premier League result and final score tonight after Adam Webster goal earns point
Brighton 1-1 Chelsea: Thomas Tuchel’s side drop further points as winless Premier League run extends to four games
Follow live reaction after Chelsea dropped points for the fourth Premier League match in a row as they were held to a 1-1 draw by an impressive Brighton side at the Amex Stadium. Adam Webster’s bullet header from a corner pulled Brighton level on 59 minutes after Hakim Ziyech had given Chelsea the lead against the run of play midway through the first half.
The result means Chelsea are still yet to win a Premier League match in 2022 and it leaves them 12 points behind leaders Manchester City, who beat them 1-0 at the Etihad Stadium on Saturday, while having played a game more. Thomas Tuchel’s side are also a point behind Liverpool having played two games more than the second-placed side.
Chelsea were often second-best to Brighton and struggled to create many chances against Graham Potter’s side. Ziyech’s opener was a deflected strike from distance and Romelu Lukaku had another quiet game before being substituted on 79 minutes. Follow live reaction from Brighton vs Chelsea below:
Brighton vs Chelsea: Thomas Tuchel ‘very confident’ he can see out Chelsea contract running to 2024
Thomas Tuchel feels “very confident” he can complete his current Chelsea FC contract that runs until 2024.
The German boss is approaching one year at the Stamford Bridge helm, in which time he has led the Blues to the Champions League and European Super Cup titles, and the FA Cup final.
The Blues trail runaway Premier League leaders Manchester City by 13 points after Saturday’s 1-0 loss at the Etihad Stadium however, with expectations of a genuine title challenge dashed after frustrating recent results.
Thomas Tuchel ‘very confident’ he can see out Chelsea contract running to 2024
Chelsea slipped 13 points behind Manchester City with Saturday’s 1-0 defeat at the Etihad Stadium.
Brighton vs Chelsea
Chelsea only had seven touches in Manchester City’s penalty area on Saturday, their fewest in a league match for seven years. Romelu Lukaku missed a big chance against the league leaders and will want to rectify that with a goal tonight.
Lukaku is just two shy of 200 career league goals, could he get them both this evening?
Brighton vs Chelsea
Brighton’s tally of 28 points from 20 matches is their highest at this stage of a top-flight campaign since 1981-82.
But, they have won just two of their 14 Premier League fixtures on a Tuesday, beating Crystal Palace in December 2018 and Manchester City last May.
Brighton vs Chelsea: Romelu Lukaku is right, he is not an easy fit in Chelsea’s system
It is tempting to wonder what might have been if, at the start of the second half at the Etihad on Saturday, the only shot on target that Chelsea managed all afternoon had been placed around the onrushing Ederson rather than easily within his reach.
Maybe Thomas Tuchel would have taken more positives from the performance, maybe Manchester City would even have lost, maybe there would still have been a sliver of intrigue for us to savour in the final four months of this Premier League title race.
Maybe Romelu Lukaku would have taken the first step on his long road back to something approaching redemption, too.
The narrative almost demanded that, very much against the run of play, he should convert that golden one-on-one opportunity to put his side ahead - not only to repair some of the damage done by last month’s explosive interview to Sky Sports Italia, but also to damage a club that he revealed he had almost joined, who offered him much more money than Chelsea did, by the way.
Romelu Lukaku is right, he is not an easy fit in Chelsea’s system
A low-key showing by the £97m striker in a game which likely ended his team’s title hopes comes hot on the heels of a falling-out with the club after his interview given in Italy
Brighton vs Chelsea: Werner on Brighton
Timo Werner says that Brighton play football like a big named club and play ‘without fear’ making tonight’s fixture a tough one for Chelsea. He said:
When you play against a team like Brighton it is very dangerous because they have not the biggest name, but they play football like the big names.
“When they played here and we drew against them, I was sitting in the stands because I was injured, and I was very impressed with how they play football.
“They have a very good style of football, direct up front and also playing without fear. So they are a very good team and you have to be very careful to play against them because they can switch the speed up very quickly.”
Brighton vs Chelsea
Chelsea have dropped points in eight of their last 12 league games, keeping just two clean sheets.
They are winless in three top-flight matches for the first time under Thomas Tuchel and could fail to score in back-to-back away league fixtures for the first time since August 2019.
Brighton vs Chelsea
Brighton are unbeaten in four league matches, earning eight points - as many as they managed in their previous 11 fixtures.
The Seagulls have scored seven league goals after the 80th minute this season. It has been their only goal of the game on every occasion.
Brighton vs Chelsea: Werner says Chelsea can bounce-back from City defeat
Forward Timo Werner admits that it will be difficult to catch Manchester City in the Premier League but says Chelsea are looking to bounce-back from their 1-0 defeat at the weekend.
The Blues are still involved in every cup competition and Werner says this is enough motivation to keep the players upbeat moving forwards. He said:
We still have the belief that in the Premier League it can change very quickly, but of course we also know how good [Man] City is, especially in the league, and when they have a lead like this they are very hard to beat.,
“We have enough to win this year still, we are in the Champions League, we are in the final of the Carabao Cup, we are still in the FA Cup, we have the Club World Cup coming up. We have a lot of chances to win titles this year so there is no time to let our heads go down because of what happened at the weekend.”
Brighton vs Chelsea: Rescheduled Brighton date is very hard to understand says Tuchel
Thomas Tuchel has admitted struggling to fathom the rescheduling of Chelsea’s Premier League trip to Brighton
The Blues travel to the Amex Stadium on Tuesday, with the clash shifted from February 8 – when Chelsea will be at the Club World Cup in Abu Dhabi.
But now boss Tuchel has been left wondering why the rearranged Brighton match could not have been staged a day later on Wednesday, January 19th.
Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel: Rescheduled Brighton date is very hard to understand
The teams meet at the Amex Stadium on Tuesday, with the clash shifted from February 8 due to the Blues’ participation in the Club World Cup
Brighton vs Chelsea: Head-to-head
Brighton are winless in 16 attempts against Chelsea since beating them in the FA Cup in their first meeting in January 1933.
Chelsea’s 13-match unbeaten league run in this fixture is their longest against a particular opponent without ever losing. Three of the last four Premier League encounters have been drawn, including 1-1 at Stamford Bridge on 29th December.
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