A view from the Pressbox: Brighton 1-3 Crystal Palace

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Henry Bryant and Sam Morton discuss Brighton and Hove Albion's disappointing 3-1 defeat at home to bitter rivals Crystal Palace.

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00:00Hello I'm Henry Bright, a reporter for Sussex World and I'm with Sam Morton and

00:05we've just watched Brighton lose out 3-1 against bitter rivals Crystal Palace.

00:10As you can see behind me a lot of police presence in this one and just wasn't the

00:14day for Brighton over Albion. Some really sloppy goals to concede, a lot of

00:18questions to be asked in defence and clearly a bad day at the office but how

00:23would you sum this one up Sam? Yeah as you say a bad day in the office of

00:26Brighton and it's four games without a win now. First home league defeat of the

00:30season as well. It was just poor from start to finish really. I mean the first

00:36goal came from a corner which you never like to concede from. I think it was just

00:41sloppy defending from that corner really that allowed Canova to tap in the

00:45opener and Brighton sloppy again in the sense they managed to concede a second

00:51goal through his man Asar. Again it was just really poor from Tarek Lamptey this time.

00:57Long ball put forward, Tarek Mitchell beat Lamptey to a header really easily, put in a

01:02great cross at the back post and there was nothing the keeper had to really do

01:05about it. Obviously two goals down at half-time.

01:08I think it's still time to come back and Brighton did play really well for the

01:11first I'd say five to ten minutes of the second half. I think there was a change with

01:14obviously Julio Hasise coming on for Lamptey which was a good change from

01:19Herzegovina in the sense that Hasise has obviously been limited to game time this

01:23season so he'd have a big point to prove and he did nearly score. It was a lovely

01:27one-two at Buleva and he curled a shot that was heading for the bottom

01:30corner but Henderson pulled out a really good save to deny that one.

01:35But it was a decent response at that point. He felt like Brighton could get

01:38into it if they got a goal but they couldn't quite do it and Palace

01:41weathered that storm and they managed to add to the lead and went 3-0 up with

01:45Ismail Sarr scoring his second of the evening, the afternoon I should say.

01:50And from that point on it was kind of game over, 3-0 down. Not really a lot of

01:56time to come back but they did manage to get a consolation goal, a really scrappy

02:00own goal from Al-Ghaihi but that did little to lift the spirits in the stadium

02:03by that point. It was very down and the stadium had emptied but a lot of

02:08people had left after that third goal so I don't think as many people were to actually

02:11see that consolation goal. So yeah, a really sad way for the day to go.

02:17Obviously it does leave Brighton in a bit of a position now where they need to

02:20start getting some form back sooner rather than later.

02:23And final question from myself is Fabian Hauser in that post-match press conference.

02:28He was very unhappy, maybe some would say furious, at Michael Oliver making a

02:33small mistake in that first goal where during play he had hold of Carlos

02:39Do you think that Fabian has the sort of reason to be angry there or do you

02:44think that that was just a small error in the game?

02:47Yeah, I think after a result like that he's definitely going to be angry.

02:54He's going to be furious about certain things in the game that didn't go his way.

02:57I wouldn't necessarily say that's the reason Brighton lost today.

03:00I think he probably needs to forget that really quickly and think about the reasons

03:05why they've lost today and reasons why their form has not been great.

03:09I think that needs to take his priority and he's come out obviously really angry

03:12about an incident which he can do nothing about.

03:14And I think he needs to focus on what he can control and what needs to fix up pretty

03:20quickly, I think, because there are some fans that are rightly unhappy with the way

03:24things are at the moment.

03:25I think obviously Brighton were looking really good in the potential

03:29Champions League push and that's what everyone was chanting for, that win at

03:32Bournemouth, to show us how quickly things can change in football and things haven't

03:36been great since then.

03:37But it can easily change for the better and hopefully they can start getting some wins

03:41on the board again.

03:42Thanks for that, Sam.

03:43Hopefully Brighton can get some run of form going into this festive period and also into

03:49the new year as well.

03:50Time will tell if Albion can turn it around from a really successful first start of the

03:55season to a little bit of a lull coming into this festive period.

03:59I've been Henry Brighton, that's been Sam Mawson and we'll have more coming like

04:02reaction and more later on.

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