A brilliant point on the road. Four points off Manchester City this season.
90'
VAN HECKE DENIES HAALAND
Haaland hits it from 12 yards but JP throws himself in front of the ball to deny the Norwegian! Late pressure from City.
90'
FIVE MINUTES ADDED TIME
90'
Yellow Card
Tommy Watson goes into the book for a sliding challenge on Cherki. On first glance it did look like he got a slight touch on the ball, but either way City have a free-kick 30 yards from the Albion goal. It's totally wasted though as Cherki's cross is immediately cleared.
86'
CHERKI SENDS IT OVER
That's a seriously good opportunity for the City number 10 as Doku finds him in the middle of the box, but he sends his first time striker over the top right corner!
83'
Substitution
James Milner and Tommy Watson come on for Kaoru Mitoma and Yasin Ayari.
82'
HUGE VERBRUGGEN SAVE
Erling Haaland won't be able to sleep tonight after that miss. Yasin Ayari gives the ball away inside his own box to Rayan Cherki. He passes it to Haaland for what you automatically is going to be a shot that hits the back of the net, but Verbruggen reads it and dives down to his right to save.
77'
Substitution
Brajan Gruda and Danny Welbeck replace Georginio and Diego Gomez.
72'
KADIOGLU OFF THE LINE
The Turkey international saves Albion there as Haaland's header gets past Verbruggen, but Ferdi is there to clear from a yard out!
71'
ALBION SHOULD BE AHEAD
Mitoma takes Gross's pass down on his chest and is in down the left. He should shoot but instead looks to pass and Donnarumma is able to get a hand on the ball and Mitoma hits the loose ball against the post!
69'
Yellow Card
Kaoru Mitoma picks up a good yellow card there as Pascal Gross loses possession in midfield and City look like they've got us on the backfoot, but the Japan international slides in and takes out Foden to stop play. Yellow card.
68'
ALBION SEARCHING FOR A SECOND
It's all Brighton & Hove Albion at the moment. Gomez's strike in the box is blocked before Georginio puts in a really dangerous ball, but there's nobody there to poke home!
62'
Yellow Card
Donnarumma and De Cuyper go into the book for a tussle in the box after the goal.
60'
MCI
0-0
BHA
Goal!
Mitoma
WE ARE LEVEL!
There's some unbelievable passes on the right from Hinshelwood and Kadioglu before Albion work it out onto the opposite wing for Mitoma, who cuts it onto his right and then slots it into the bottom right corner!
55'
VITAL INTERCEPTION FROM VAN HECKE
Erling Haaland appears to be in on goal as he gets away from Dunk, but van Hecke races across to poke the ball away from him and behind for a corner.
53'
Yellow Card
Jan Paul van Hecke gets a hold of Erling Haaland in midfield and to be fair, it's a bit of a rugby grab around the waist. Yellow card.
46'
BERNARDO SILVA SHOULD SCORE
That's an unbelievable opportunity for the City skipper as Ayari plays it straight to him in the Albion box, he sits Dunk down before striking at goal, but he hits the post and it's behind for a goal-kick. He will be absolutely kicking himself for missing that.
46'
Second Half begins
City get the second half started.
45'+4'
Half-Time
That's it for the first half.
45'+4'
DUNK CLEARS OFF THE LINE
Reijnders is first to a loose ball in the box, but his shot is cleared off the line by Lewis Dunk!
45'
FOUR MINUTES ADDED TIME
41'
Goal
Haaland slots in from the penalty spot, rolling the ball into the bottom right corner.
40'
Yellow Card
Pascal Gross goes into the book for arguing with the referee after the penalty is given.
38'
Penalty
Despite Thomas Bramall being right on top of it and waving play on, VAR sends him to the screen for a tackle by Diego Gomez on Jeremy Doku. There's contact, but Doku throws himself down. Penalty to City. Re-refereeing the game.
29'
Yellow Card
Lewis Dunk is shown a yellow card for pulling on the shirt of Phil Foden on the halfway line. No arguing with that one unfortunately.
27'
GEORGINIO IN ON GOAL
Khusanov is City's saviour as Georginio stays onside to beat the offside trap, getting on the end of Gomez's pass. He runs through and looks to pass to Mitoma for a tap in, but the City centre half dives in to block the pass!
26'
HAALAND HEADS WIDE
Doku rolls the ball back to Ake on the far side of the box and he crosses in, finding the head of Haaland, but he nods it a couple of yards wide of the bottom right corner There was no real power on that either.
14'
DOKU CROSS CLEARED BY GROSS
Doku gets away from Kadioglu on the City left, puts a cross in from the by-line and Gross just gets his foot in front of Haaland to clear behind for a corner. The striker was ready to lash that in from ten yards.
8'
KADIOGLU'S SHOT SAVED
Georginio plays Kadioglu down the right and winger is in a foot race with Ake. He gets past him and looks to beat Donnarumma with a drive from the right of the box, but it's straight at the keeper who gathers at the second attempt! Brilliant early chances for Albion.
2'
CLOSE TO AN OPENER
Pascal Gross gets on the end of Diego Gomez's cross in the middle of the box and heads down, with Donnarumma getting down well to save! Good piece of play.
1'
Kick-off
Albion get the game underway.
Maxim De Cuyper starts tonight against the Cityzens.
The City team.
The Albion team.
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