Jack Hinshelwood scored Brighton’s fastest Premier League goal at 35 seconds and Lewis Dunk doubled the lead four minutes later as the Seagulls eased past relegated Wolves 3-0 on Saturday.
Brighton turned a record-breaking opener into a comfortable afternoon at the Amex on Saturday, beating relegated Wolverhampton Wanderers 3-0 to keep their push for European football on track and reward Fabian Hurzeler at the end of a contract-extension week.
Jack Hinshelwood scored after 35 seconds, the fastest Premier League goal in Brighton’s history. Maxim De Cuyper crossed from the left after Andre’s giveaway in his own half, and Hinshelwood thumped a header into the top-right corner. Captain Lewis Dunk made it 2-0 four minutes later, nodding in another De Cuyper delivery on his return to the starting XI. Yankuba Minteh added the third in the 86th minute.
A neat bow on Hurzeler’s contract week
Hurzeler signed a three-year extension earlier in the week, tying him to Brighton until 2029 after Bayer Leverkusen had been monitoring his progress. He has now won 38 of his 86 matches in charge in all competitions, and the front-foot start to this game is the kind he tends to demand.
Brighton seventh, two points off Bournemouth
The result lifts Brighton to seventh, two points behind Bournemouth in sixth and five behind Aston Villa in fifth, with two matches still to play. Bournemouth’s 16-game unbeaten Premier League run, currently the longest in any of Europe’s top five leagues, complicates the maths, but Brighton’s two remaining matches give them realistic shots at climbing.
Wolves never got going
Wolves had already been relegated before kick-off, and the early double effectively ended the game as a contest. De Cuyper supplied two assists from the left side, and the visitors managed only sporadic moments going forward across the 90 minutes.
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Hinshelwood inside 35 seconds and Dunk’s header send Brighton past Wolves at the Amex – Sportsadda
