Lamptey Saves Seagulls After Rogers Runs Show for Villa

Tariq Lamptey spent most of his night worried about how his direct opponent Morgan Rogers was the most-likely matchwinner, but it was the right-back who settled the result with a fine equaliser as Brighton secured a draw at Aston Villa.

- Will Unwin

Rogers and Ollie Watkins had put Villa into the lead after a Simon Adingra opener and the hosts sensed victory until Lamptey scored his third goal in almost 100 Premier League games for Brighton to level with less than 10 minutes to go.

On a cold night, proceedings were stopped within a minute when Boubacar Kamara and Joao Pedro clashed heads, leaving the Brighton forward bleeding from a cut above his left eye. The Brazilian was lucky to be playing after throwing an elbow in the draw against Brentford last week. Joao Pedro required four minutes of treatment before being bandaged up and allowed to play on.

Aston Villa were the more threatening against a team that arrived without a win in six matches but Ezri Konsa and Pau Torres were feeling generous, and gifted Adingra the first goal. Lewis Dunk punted a long ball over the top that the full-back and centre-back failed to deal with under light pressure from Joao Pedro, before Adingra stepped in and curled his shot into the corner from inside the area, leaving Ezri Konsa bellowing at his own ineptitude.