Danny Welbeck earns point for draw specialists Brighton at Leicester

If Brighton could just play all their games from the 80th minute, then Manchester City might have more serious competition for the Premier League title. Danny Welbeck’s latest deserved equaliser earned Graham Potter’s team their 12th draw of the season as Leicester City again fell away in the latter stages.

With Potter watching on remotely from his Covid-enforced isolation, Brighton could once again be proud of their strong finish as they extended their unbeaten run to six games since Christmas. Going behind to the prolific Patson Daka, Brighton came back to score for the eighth time in the last 10 minutes of matches, a statistic to which only the Premier League leaders can hold a candle.

If this was not quite the nightmare Leicester suffered on Wednesday, when Tottenham came from 2-1 behind in the 95th minute to win 3-2, then it was another instance of how stretched they are.

Leicester still had nine players missing but had looked more defensively secure for the returns of James Justin, for his first game in 347 days after his serious knee injury, and Daniel Amartey, back from the Africa Cup of Nations.

To be fair — and forgive us if you have heard this one before — Brighton’s finishing potency did not match their fine approach play for the first 80 minutes.

This was their fourth draw in six matches, albeit including a pair of 1-1s with Chelsea, but while the visiting side displayed some admirable dexterity in their passing through the thirds they had so little to show for it until they went behind.

They only had Neil Maupay’s mishit attempted scissor-kick and Alexis Mac Allister’s shot, clearing the crossbar by some distance, in a quiet first half. All hot air and no end product, as one regular sage summarised.

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