Brighton gave Ajax a footballing lesson here. Let’s run that again: Brighton, a club that spent 34 years outside the English top flight before their return in 2017, took the inventors of modern football, the mighty Ajax, to school under the floodlights of Falmer. It’s the sort of occasion you’d imagine Brighton fans won’t have difficulty recalling in future, regardless of where this European tour ends up.
A first-half goal from João Pedro was followed shortly after the break by one from Ansu Fati to wrap up this match but the home side’s dominance was not truly captured by the scoreline, nor even by the 62% of possession they held.
