Brighton 5-0 Crystal Palace: three goals inside 10 minutes
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Key numbers
- 5 shots: Palace's fewest in nine matches this season
- 9 shots on target to 1 underlined the gap
- 4' own goal: +0.7 and −0.6 FN xPts
Settled inside ten minutes
Brighton beat Crystal Palace 5-0, and the contest was effectively over before the first quarter-hour was out. Three goals arrived inside 10 minutes, and the hosts then spent about 86 minutes in front until full-time, with Palace level for only a few minutes at the start.
An own goal opened the door
Jaydee Canvot's own goal in the fourth minute set the tone. It was worth +0.7 FN xPts to Brighton and −0.6 to Palace, the largest combined change of any moment in the match. Two more goals followed in quick succession, so the damage was done early.
Palace barely got a shot away
Palace managed only five shots, their fewest in nine matches this season, and just one of them was on target. They also shipped more goals than in any of those nine fixtures. That points to a side that seldom got a shot away, rather than one wasting chances it had built.
Newcomers delivered for Brighton
Brighton switched to a 4-2-3-1 with seven new starters. Diego Gómez, Yasin Ayari and Charalampos Kostoulas, all among the newcomers, had a hand in the goals that made it 2-0, 3-0 and 4-0, and Maxim De Cuyper's four key passes were the most on the pitch.
FN MOM
Highest FN Score · our own pick by a published formula, not the official Player of the Match
Charalampos Kostoulas 8.5Dominant
He scored once, set up another and had four shots, two of them on target.
Kostoulas earned most of his credit in attack. He supplied the final ball for Ayari's goal in the tenth minute, then scored the fourth himself in the 49th, and won three of six dribbles along the way. That second-half goal removed any hope of a Palace recovery. It was his third league goal of the season.
Game state
1-02-03-04-05-0
Brighton ahead 86 min · level 4 min · Crystal Palace ahead 0 min
FN xPts — what each moment was worth
How much each moment changed that team's expected points (win 3, draw 1). A goal's value is credited 70% to the scorer and 30% to the assist. The value next to a team code is what the same moment did to the other side's expected points; the decisive moment is the one with the largest combined change for both teams.
4'
Jaydee Canvot
Own goal · BHA +0.7
−0.6
7'
Diego Gómez
Goal · scorer +0.3 · assist Olivier Boscagli +0.1 · CRY −0.3
+0.4
10'
Yasin Ayari
Goal · assist Charalampos Kostoulas · CRY −0.1
+0.2
49'
Charalampos Kostoulas
Goal · CRY 0.0
0.0
84'
Jack Hinshelwood
Goal · CRY 0.0
0.0
Brighton
Expected (last two seasons) 1.6Own moments +0.6Opponent moments +0.7Time effect +0.1→ League points won 3
Crystal Palace
Expected (last two seasons) 1.1Own moments −0.6Opponent moments −0.4Time effect −0.1→ League points won 0
Expected points don't add up to a fixed total (a draw is 1 + 1), so an opponent's moment isn't simply the mirror of your loss. "Time effect" is the change as the clock runs down on a lead or a chase, and isn't credited to any player.
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Match stats
BrightonCrystal Palace
2.02Expected goals (xG)0.77
Compared with usual
Brighton
10 matches this season, all competitions baseline
| This match | Avg | |
|---|
| Goals | 5 | 2.9 | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0.7 | |
| xG | 2.02 | 2.4 | |
| xG against | 0.77 | 1.3 | |
| Shots | 17 | 20.8 | |
| On target | 9 | 6.1 | |
| Shots faced | 5 | 9.5 | |
| xG per shot | 0.12 | 0.11 | |
| Possession | 57% | 64.5% | |
| Passes | 516 | 565.8 | |
| Corners | 8 | 6.6 | |
| Fouls | 13 | 13.3 | |
Crystal Palace
9 matches this season, all competitions baseline
| This match | Avg | |
|---|
| Goals | 0 | 2 | |
| Conceded | 5 | 1.7 | high |
| xG | 0.77 | 1.5 | |
| xG against | 2.02 | 2 | |
| Shots | 5 | 11.3 | low |
| On target | 1 | 4.4 | |
| Shots faced | 17 | 16.9 | |
| xG per shot | 0.15 | 0.13 | |
| Possession | 43% | 44.9% | |
| Passes | 384 | 432 | |
| Corners | 5 | 3 | |
| Fouls | 11 | 9.8 | |
Timeline
- 4'
Goal
Jaydee Canvot (OG)
- 7'
Goal
Diego Gómez league goal #1 assist Olivier Boscagli
- 10'
Goal
Yasin Ayari league goal #2 assist Charalampos Kostoulas
- 29'
Yellow
Pascal Groß
- 45'
Sub
Quinten Timber → Dwight McNeil
- 49'
Goal
Charalampos Kostoulas league goal #3
- 51'
Yellow
Daichi Kamada
- 53'
Sub
Honest Ahanor → Jefferson Lerma
- 61'
Sub
Yeremy Pino → Eddie Nketiah
- 61'
Sub
Jørgen Strand Larsen → Jean-Philippe Mateta
- 64'
Yellow
José María Andrés Baixauli
- 71'
Sub
Charalampos Kostoulas → Georginio Rutter
- 71'
Sub
Pascal Groß → Jack Hinshelwood
- 81'
Sub
Daichi Kamada → Will Hughes
- 81'
Sub
Olivier Boscagli → Jaouen Hadjam
- 81'
Sub
Yasin Ayari → Malick Yalcouyé
- 84'
Goal
Jack Hinshelwood league goal #3
- 90'
Sub
Lewis Dunk → Michael Svoboda
Category leaders
- Key passesMaxim De Cuyper4
- Duels wonLuka Vušković12/20
- DribblesCharalampos Kostoulas3/6
- Defensive actionsChris Richards5
- ShotsCharalampos Kostoulas4 (on target 2)
- Fouls wonMaxim De Cuyper3
#Brighton#Crystal Palace#Premier League#Kostoulas#Matchweek 7#FN Score
This review was written by AI from match data (API-Football). FN Score and FN xPts are calculated by Fulltime Note using a published formula.