Brighton edged previous Wolves with a 3-2 victory to seal their spot in spherical 4 of the Carabao Cup.
Brighton eased right into a two-goal lead because of long-range strikes from Carlos Baleba (14) and Simon Adingra (31) with Wolves displaying little to nothing for almost all of the primary half.
Nonetheless, Gary O’Neil’s facet grabbed a lifeline simply earlier than the break as Goncalo Guedes (44) transformed Matt Doherty’s reduce to halve the deficit.
After the break, Wolves had been a lot the higher facet for lengthy intervals. The guests, with renewed vitality, went near an equaliser when Nelson Semedo’s cross was touched onto Adam Webster by Jason Steele, and the ball rolled agonisingly in the direction of purpose. Nonetheless, Josh Hinshelwood appeared out of nowhere to clear the ball off the road.
One other huge likelihood fell to Guedes however with simply Steele to beat, the ahead fired large as Wolves did not capitalise on their alternatives.
They had been made to pay when Brighton restored their two-goal benefit late on. Ferdi Kadioglu pounced after Danny Welbeck’s shot was saved to transform the rebound for his first purpose for the membership.
Nonetheless, there was nonetheless time for an additional purpose as Tommy Doyle capitalised on some poor defending from the hosts to fireplace in a shot off the underside of the crossbar.
It proved solely to be a comfort as Brighton held on to e book their place within the draw for spherical 4, which takes place subsequent Wednesday (September 25).
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