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Brighton routs Coventry 5-0 to leave hosts winless and scoreless through four games
September 13, 2026 at 05:02 PM
Brighton beat 10-man Coventry City 5-0, leaving the promoted hosts the second Premier League team ever to lose their opening four games without scoring.
- Brighton won 5-0 with goals from Charalampos Kostoulas, Malick Yalcouyé, Pascal Gross, Lewis Dunk, and Yasin Ayari, Dunk's strike coming from 35 yards.
- Coventry became only the second Premier League team to lose their first four matches without scoring, after Crystal Palace in 2017-18.
- Taiwo Awoniyi received a straight red card for elbowing Maxim De Cuyper in the face.
- Frank Lampard told his Coventry players "We have to have belief" at half-time, with his side trailing 1-0.