Having started Tuesday with a behind closed doors friendly against Portsmouth, Brighton and Hove Albion travelled to The Valley to take part in a clash with Charlton Athletic.
📝 Chris Hughton reflected on today's pre-season double-header versus @officialpompey and @CAFCofficial..
💬 “What we got was what we expected – tough games against sides that are one week closer to the start of their division."#BHAFC 🔵⚪️
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— Brighton & Hove Albion (@OfficialBHAFC) July 24, 2018
With Maty Ryan, Ezequiel Schelotto, Shane Duffy, Gaeten Bong, Anthony Knockaert, Yves Bissouma, Beram Kayal, Markus Suttner, Oliver Norwood and Tomer Hemed all getting minutes in the first match of the day, a largely different group made the trip for the evening’s clash as manager Chris Hughton took the opportunity to split the group for fitness purposes.
It was our second draw of the day, but we opened the scoring through Pascal Gross and had plenty of opportunities to extend our advantage before Naby Sarr levelled the scores up late on. This game saw Leon Balogun make his non-competitive debut following his arrival earlier in the summer.
📝 Albion draw their second game of the day 1-1 this evening, as a goal from Pascal Gross is cancelled out by @CAFCofficial's Naby Sarr at The Valley.
⚽️ Next up for the Seagulls – @BCFC at St Andrews on Saturday.#BHAFC 🔵⚪️
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— Brighton & Hove Albion (@OfficialBHAFC) July 24, 2018
Brighton:
Button (Keto 79), Bruno (Moore 79), Dunk (Kerr 79), Balogun (Barclay 64), Bernardo (Cochrane 79), Towell (Tilley 36 (Gyokeres 59)), Stephens (Normann 79), Propper (Collar 79), March (Maguire-Drew 79), Gross (Mandroiu 79), Murray (Connolly 64).
Attendance: 2,256.
Away: 458.
Good to see a couple of debuts across both games yesterday, should do them the world of good as they continue adjusting to life at the club.
Good performance lads. Great turnout too. Onto the next one
— Charlie Haffenden (@TheHaff11) July 24, 2018
Decent effort that is chaps
— Kenkeniff (@kenkeniff85) July 24, 2018
Great support for a pre season game????⚪️????
— BHAFC News (@BhafcMatt) July 24, 2018