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🇳🇱 Jan Paul van Hecke (Brighton, 25) ◉ 99th percentile for progressive carries ◉ 98th percentile for progressive passes ◉ 86th percentile for passes completed ◉ 75th percentile for defensive duels won % No centreback has more progressive carries, or a higher progressive pass accuracy in the Top 5 Leagues 👉 datamb.football/J_van_Hecke_Ce…

🇩🇪 Bundesliga Player of the Week - Brajan Gruda @RBLeipzig | #RBLeipzig

Danny Welbeck, 50 Brighton goals: ▫️ Scored in 194 apps, one every 235 mins 🔹 12 match-winning goals ▫️ 13 headers, 11 left-foot, 26 right-foot 🔹 In PL this season he has 12G from 43 shots ▫️ Only scored more under Wenger (27 in 112 apps) than Hürzeler (24 in 69) 👑 #BHAFC

Highest % of team's goals scored in the Premier League this season: ◉ 41% - Erling Haaland ◉ 37% - Igor Thiago ◉ 29% - Danny Welbeck 🔥👀 ◉ 27% - Dominic Calvert-Lewin ◉ 26% - João Pedro

Goals vs Big 6 in the Prem: 23 — Danny Welbeck 22 — Robbie Keane 21 — Didier Drogba 21 — Cristiano Ronaldo

Danny Welbeck's pair of goals against Liverpool today take him to 12 in the Premier League overall this season, the most he has ever scored in the competition in a single campaign. #BHAFC

Since August 2024 (Hürzeler’s first game), Brighton are the top team against the Premier League’s ‘Big Six’ for: 🥇 Wins (10, tied with Newcastle) 🥇 Points earned (35) 🥇 Goals scored (40) Rising to the occasion 🔹 #BHAFC

Brighton after matchday 31 in the Premier League: 2024-25: 9th on 47pts (W12, D11, L8) 2025-26: 8th on 43pts (W11, D10, L10) The run in has started strongly 👏 #BHAFC

𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐨𝐧 𝟐-𝟏 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐨𝐨𝐥 Two goals from Danny Welbeck gave Brighton their fourth win in their last five Premier League games. Liverpool are now three without a win in the league, and suffered their 10th PL loss of the season (most since 2015-16). #BRILIV

Danny Welbeck has scored as many Premier League goals as some of the summer’s biggest-money striker signings this season 🔥👏 11 - Danny Welbeck 11 - Hugo Ekitiké 11 - Viktor Gyökeres #BRILIV #PremierLeague

Only Glenn Murray (13) has scored more goals in a single Premier League campaign for Brighton than Danny Welbeck (12). One more to equal the record. 🟰

Brighton are unbeaten in their last 12 Premier League games against promoted sides (6 wins, 6 draws) They’ve now kept a clean sheet in 6 of those past 7 matches vs promoted teams Learning to dominate. 🧠 #BHAFC

Brighton are now on 3 wins in their past 4 PL matches — before that they had 3 wins in 15 The 1-0 win at Sunderland is their 6th league clean sheet of the season, all have been since start of November Form found ⚔️ #BHAFC

Away teams to win at Stadium of Light in PL this season: ✔️ Brighton (0-1, March 14th) ✔️ Fulham (1-3, Feb 22nd) ✔️ Liverpool (0-1, Feb 11th) Brighton win back to back away PL games for first time since end of 2024-25 season 🕺 #BHAFC

Most goals by English players in Europe’s top-five leagues since August 2024: Harry Kane - 56 Mason Greenwood - 35 Ollie Watkins - 24 Cole Palmer - 23 Jarrod Bowen - 21 🌟 DANNY WELBECK - 20 🌟 One. More. Year. 🫡 #BHAFC

Most dynamic central midfielders as per high intensity runs* per 30' team in-possession, #PremierLeague 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🥇 #DiegoGomez 🇵🇾 44.1 🥈 #EnzoFernandez 🇦🇷 38.7 🥉 #TijjaniReijnders 🇳🇱 38.2 * >20 km/h on average for >1" @CIES_Football analysis powered by @SkillCorner 🤝

𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐨𝐧 𝟐-𝟏 𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐡𝐚𝐦 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 This was the first Premier League fixture to see three goals scored in the opening 15 minutes since Crystal Palace vs Arsenal in December 2024. Very little happened after that, though. #BRINFO

Brighton 2-1 Nottingham Forest: ✅ Back to back league wins for the first time since November ✅ Welbeck has hit double digits for PL goals in consecutive seasons for the first time ✅ League double over Forest in 25-26 ✅ 3pts off 8th place (Everton) #BHAFC

Only two players have scored 10+ goals in back-to-back Premier League seasons for Brighton: ◎ Glenn Murray (17/18 & 18/19) ◉ Danny Welbeck (24/25 & 25/26) Dat Guy Welbz. 🔵⚪️

Danny Welbeck is the first player to score 10+ goals in consecutive PL seasons while aged 33 or older, since Jamie Vardy in 2020/21 and 2021/22. 💪