Superb Brighton thrash Wolves 6-0 as Undav, Gross and Welbeck all double up

Brighton ended a difficult week on a major high by emphatically reigniting their European push and making history with a 6-0 demolition of Wolves at the Amex Stadium.

Doubles from Deniz Undav, Pascal Gross and Danny Welbeck helped the rampant hosts rip apart their opponents en route to registering their biggest Premier League success, with Roberto De Zerbi saying: “I think it’s the best performance in my career as a coach.”

His side came into the game having suffered an agonising FA Cup semi-final loss to Manchester United last Sunday before a meek midweek defeat at Nottingham Forest. But the eighth-placed Seagulls stylishly set aside those setbacks to move on to a club-record 53 Premier League points – two behind Tottenham in fifth – with a spellbinding performance in the Sussex sunshine. A stunned Wolves offered little on a chastening afternoon as they slipped to a resounding loss that keeps them looking over their shoulders in the battle to avoid relegation.

De Zerbi added: “We scored six goals but if we speak about the level of the play, the style of the play, the quality of the play, I think we are playing a very high level of football.

“This victory started in Wembley, not today, because today we showed pride, we played well.

“We suffered a lot after Wembley because we deserved to win, we suffered a lot in Nottingham because we played the Nottingham game with the heads still in Wembley and today you watched the reaction. The players are not like the players on the PlayStation or robots. They gave soul, heart and in those five days they suffered a lot.”

The manager had called for Brighton’s fans to be a 12th man after five successive games on the road. Fearing fatigue amid a hectic fixture list, the Italian made the