Brighton outsmart Chelsea as Potter ponders lessons at old stomping ground

The Seagulls outworked the visitors on Saturday. 

STUNNED: Brighton and Hove Albion's Pervis Estupinan celebrates after Chelsea's Trevoh Chalobah scores an own goal.

This was one for football romantics everywhere. When money has talked loudly and dismissively of your club’s efforts to build something brave and challenge the established powers, the best answer is to do it all again. And if part of the response involves thrashing the big boys who saw your success against the odds and thought ‘We’ll have that,’ then so much the better.

So Chelsea offered your head coach Graham Potter a fivefold wage rise and took his entire backroom staff too? Replace him with Roberto De Zerbi, who plays a similar style but one fuel-injected with espresso. So Chelsea paid £62m for your reigning player of the season, Marc Cucurella? Re-invest a fifth of the proceeds in Pervis Estupinan and watch him run riot against their Champions League performers.