Liverpool quartet click to clip soaring Brighton's wings

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Updated / Sunday, 25 Oct 2026 16:19 Getty Alexander Isak scored for the second league game running Liverpool's expensively-assembled front four finally clicked into gear as they beat Brighton 2-0 to record their first home Premier League win of the season. They do not come more miserly than the Seagulls as Fabian Hurzeler’s side may be the top flight’s leading scorers but they also know how to keep the back door tightly shut and these were the first goals conceded in all competitions in over nine hours.

Wirtz was denied the credit for the 17th-minute opener due to the deflection off Pascal Gross but there was no doubting Isak’s sixth goal in seven league appearances four minutes later from a Barcola cross. Wirtz played his part in the opening goal as his shot was deflected into the net Strong contributions from the France international and Gakpo on the flanks ensured Brighton were never entirely comfortable in a first half in which they started the brighter.

A centre-back playing on the right, he crossed for the first goal and continued to enhance his cult status with a header while flat out on the floor to deny Maxim De Cuyper a goalscoring opportunity just after going 2-0 up and a no-nonsense clearance which was close to putting Malick Yalcouye into the first row of the Main Stand. Brighton may have fared better had Yasin Ayari not blazed over the first chance of the game after Diego Gomez’s pass released Gross but once Liverpool were ahead confidence flowed through them.