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Tariq Lamptey saves Brighton after Morgan Rogers runs Aston Villa show
If either Aston Villa or Brighton have ambitions to reach Europe, they will need 2025 to start better than 2024 ended. The match began and concluded as ninth against 10th after Tariq Lamptey was the unlikely hero with a late equaliser to punish the hosts for missing a glut of chances.

Villa have won four of their past 15 matches this year, while Brighton are winless in seven to make them the poster boys for midtable mediocrity at the halfway point of the season. Goals from Ollie ­Watkins and Morgan Rogers had put Villa into the lead after Simon Adingra’s opener and the hosts sensed victory until Lamptey scored his third goal in 95 league games for Brighton to level with less than 10 minutes to go.

It should not have come to this for Villa, who dominated possession but looked vulnerable on the break. Chances came and went with great regularity, with 20 attempts but only four on ­target. Rogers was a ­constant menace with his direct running and skilful ­dribbling, making Lamptey’s night a ­difficult one, but the hosts struggled in the early stages to threaten Bart ­Verbruggen’s goal.

Turning the Villa defence was a key strategy for Brighton. It was a long punt over the top from Lewis Dunk that resulted in the opener as Ezri Konsa and Pau Torres, who later sustained a suspected broken ­metatarsal, failed to deal with the matter when the ball dropped in the box, allowing Adingra to step in and curl beyond Emiliano Martínez into the corner.

Mery used his programme notes to bemoan VAR and was once again left irritated by the officials when they ruled that Jan Paul van Hecke had got the ball after an ill‑advised lunge on Rogers in the box. The Villa manager threw out his arms when the video officials declared there was no need to overturn the original decision. He need not have worried because, in the next action, João Pedro kicked ­Rogers when trying to clear a corner and, this time, Craig Pawson, the ­referee, eventually changed his mind at the screen after ruling Verbruggen was not impeded seconds before the foul, much to Fabian Hürzeler’s ­chagrin. Watkins, on his 29th birthday, did the rest.

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