Updated at 15.26
BRIGHTON EASED FEARS of being dragged into a relegation battle as a well-deserved 2-0 win over Bournemouth lifted the Seagulls five points clear of the Premier League drop zone.
Alireza Jahanbakhsh and Aaron Mooy scored their first goals for the club as Graham Potter’s men secured just a second win in nine league games to move 13th.
Bournemouth meanwhile remain precariously placed just two points above the bottom three and could even end the day in the relegation zone if West Ham and Aston Villa win later on Saturday.
Jahanbakhsh has struggled to make an impact on the south coast since a big money move from AZ Alkmaar at the beginning of last season.
However the Iranian was moved to tears when he opened the scoring with his first Premier League goal less than three minutes into his first league start of the season.
3 - Alireza Jahanbakhsh is the third Iranian player to score in Premier League history (also Ashkan Dejagah and Andranik Teymourian) and the first since Dejagah in April 2014. Opener. pic.twitter.com/lXwyeAjkrV
— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) December 28, 2019
Only a marginal offside call after a VAR review denied Dan Burn a second for Brighton early in the second half.
However, Mooy produced a moment of magic to secure the points 11 minutes from time as he controlled the ball on his chest, turned inside his marker and curled the ball into the far corner.
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