Jonny Nicholson: Potter will have gone back to west London a much wiser man

LESSON: Chelsea manager Graham Potte.

Potter’s Chelsea beaten by Potter’s Brighton

Sometimes football writes its own stories as Graham Potter’s Chelsea took on Graham Potter’s Brighton. Chelsea have had five different starting formations in his nine games in charge. However, the one that started the game against Brighton - a back three with Raheem Sterling and Christian Pulisic as wing backs - will likely not reappear any time soon. He had played it against RB Salzburg midweek and won 2-1 but he had to abandon it at half-time at Brighton and arguably should have done so 20 minutes earlier because it left the Blues wide open at the back against a dynamic, attacking opponent. All the ambitious, confident and progressive instincts Potter had instilled in Brighton were thrown back in his face. They say you learn more from your mistakes than you do from your successes. If so, Potter will have gone back to west London a much wiser man.