Wolves 0-2 Brighton: Danny Welbeck scores from spot as Brighton boost European qualification hopes with assured win over Wolves

A erstwhile Manchester United striker showed a aboriginal 1 however it’s done.

While truthful overmuch of the speech astatine Molineux these days surrounds the aboriginal of Matheus Cunha and the merits oregon misgivings of an impending summertime determination to Old Trafford, it was Danny Welbeck, a antheral that erstwhile tread that starry path, who stole the show.

That it was Cunha who gave the spot footwear away, a foul for which helium was fortunate not to beryllium shown a reddish card, was a fitting irony to it each and a reminder that the ageing stars tin often play the champion tunes nether the glow of the fading light.

Welbeck’s punishment was his 10th Premier League extremity of the season, the archetypal clip successful the 34-year-old’s vocation he’s reached treble figures successful a league campaign.

He thought he’d fixed Brighton the pb earlier successful the archetypal fractional excessively erstwhile helium turned successful Tariq Lamptey’s transverse lone for a painfully agelong VAR cheque to corroborate that Yankuba Minteh had interfered with play from a marginally offside position.

It was besides Welbeck’s clever tally 5 minutes from clip that opened the abstraction for Simon Adingra to play successful chap substitute Brajan Gruda to treble Brighton’s pb and wrapper up the win.

For Cunha, this was apt to beryllium the penultimate clip helium steps retired present successful a Wolves shirt. Wolves judge that the Brazilian volition permission this summertime erstwhile someone, expected to beryllium Manchester United, lucifer his merchandise clause. What an enigma they volition miss. Or volition they?

Technique and artistry with 1 breath, petulance and vexation with the other. We saw the reasons wherefore Manchester United privation to bargain him and besides ones that amusement wherefore galore Wolves fans won’t beryllium excessively fussed to spot him go.

Cunha was astatine the bosom of tons of the hosts’ bully play. His aboriginal free-kick recovered Goncalo Guedes astatine the adjacent post, who enactment the shot conscionable implicit the barroom with a neat flick of the extracurricular of his boot. He forced a good debased prevention from Bart Verbruggen with a changeable from the borderline of the container successful the 2nd half. With 1 rotation of his footwear implicit the ball, helium sent a Wolves defender the incorrect mode and fed successful a team-mate to triumph a corner.

And yet for each the bully Cunha was doing successful attack, it was his doziness that talented Brighton the pb erstwhile helium had his pocked picked by Mats Wieffer connected the borderline of his ain container and past clumsily brought down the Seagulls full-back for a penalty.

Brighton’s seat leapt successful fury astatine seeing referee Michael Oliver amusement Cunha a yellowish paper alternatively of thing stronger. Officials believed Cunha was making an effort to play the ball, which was a alternatively generous mentation of events.

It got to Cunha. He went down rapidly aft looking for a free-kick, fortunate not to beryllium booked again, and past sent a changeable from 40 yards flying halfway up the stands. Misplaced passes were met with flung arms oregon hands to his head.

When helium sent different speculative effort flying precocious and wide successful the 2nd half, the Wolves fans down the extremity began to sing the sanction of benched striker Jorgen Strand Larsen.

The timepiece had not adjacent ticked past the hr erstwhile the 4th official’s committee went up and Cunha’s fig flashed alongside Strand Larsen’s.

Within moments of his arrival, Strand Larsen astir had Wolves level arsenic Rayan Ait-Nouri burst down the left, squared the shot and the caller antheral was lone denied a pat successful by the sprawling limb of the diving Verbruggen.

It was left, though, for Welbeck to person 1 last say. His clever tally made a Wolves defender travel and the abstraction was near for Gruda to gaffe successful and people his archetypal Premier League extremity arsenic the substitute fell to his knees successful tears.