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  2. 'If Mitoma had been Messi, it would have gotten a lot more attention'

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    Kaoru Mitoma's "delightful" goal in Brighton's win against Chelsea on Friday deserved more attention than it received.

    That is the view of this week's Albion Unlimited podcast, with former midfielder Warren Aspinall saying: "That touch and finish was worth the entrance fee alone.

    "That first touch from Mitoma, to pluck it out of the sky, he's got velcro on his foot. The second and third [touches], then to caress it into the corner with his fourth - it was a wonderful strike.

    "It was poor defending from Chelsea as well, but you can't take away the touch and finish from Mitoma. It was just delightful."

    Ex-defender Guy Butters agreed and said: "We all like to watch pretty football and passing but one ball pumped 80 yards up the field results in a goal.

    "The touch and the quick feet after it as well, the way he took the second touch, then we were all up on our feet and thought this was definitely going to be some sort of goal and it was amazing."

    BBC Radio Sussex reporter Johnny Cantor added: "It's about the finish as well. It's all good and well having flicks and skills, when they show the little showboating montages it's all well and good, but if it doesn't come to anything then it is a bit irrelevant.

    "Whereas he has the ability to go on and score the goal and, for me, that is just as important. Having done something amazing like that with your skill but then to have the composure and precision to score as well.

    "If Mitoma had been Messi, it would have got a lot more attention than it did."

    Listen to the full episode on BBC Sounds

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    Having been unbeaten in their first seven Premier League games against Brighton (W3 D4), Southampton are now winless in their last six against the Seagulls (D3 L3).

    Brighton are unbeaten in all six of their Premier League away games against Southampton (W2 D4) – they've only visited West Ham (8) more without ever losing in the competition, while Saints have only hosted Nottingham Forest (7) more often without success.

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  11. Brighton Q&A: Submit your questions

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    Is there something that you want to ask about the Seagulls?

    BBC Radio Sussex reporter Johnny Cantor is ready to answer your questions for a special Q&A.

    Submit your question here and come back later this week to read a selection of his replies

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  13. 'Watching Mitoma in a Brighton shirt is an absolute honour'

    Scott McCarthy
    Fan writer

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    Another weekend, another Brighton win over Chelsea, another inquest into how £250m worth of players, management and recruitment staff could have swapped Sussex for Stamford Bridge and yet the Albion still maintain a hold over the Blues.

    Easy one to answer. Just start by looking at the Chelsea XI who took to the field for their 3-0 defeat on Friday night. £1.5bn spent and not a fit and available centre-forward.

    Robert Sanchez dropped for being a calamity all season. His replacement, Filip Jorgensen, having a Valentine's Day nightmare by shipping three goals he should have done better with. All while Kepa Arrizabalaga helps Bournemouth in their unexpected push for Europe. Chelsea's best goalkeeper in the Premier League this season plays for the Cherries.

    Somewhere at the heart of this squad and transfer mess is former Brighton head of recruitment Paul Winstanley. And his successor as Brighton head of recruitment, Sam Jewell. Chelsea paid handsomely for both within 12 months of each other, presumably because they thought they were buying the brains behind the Albion's success.

    But Winstanley and Jewell were just cogs in a machine. The brains behind the entire recruitment operation and the only person who knows how all those algorithms fit together is the one bloke who cannot be bought - Tony Bloom.

    Todd Boehly can chuck all the money he wants at Brighton but the only way Chelsea - or anyone else for that matter - can replicate the Albion's success is through purchasing Bloom himself.

    Meanwhile, there is one player who Brighton have quite rightly made unavailable for sale. Eyebrows were raised when two bids from the Saudi Pro League were turned down for Kaoru Mitoma in January. Supporters of other clubs balked at Brighton rejecting a rumoured £75m.

    Mitoma, though, is irreplaceable - as shown by his stunning opening goal against Chelsea.

    In over 30 years of watching Brighton, I am struggling to think of a more technically excellent goal. The first touch was exquisite. The finish almost as good. Lionel Messi-esque.

    Mitoma is a special player. Watching him in a Brighton shirt is an absolute honour.

    Find more from Scott McCarthy at We Are Brighton

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