Brighton and Hove Albion shrugged off the absence of Moises Caicedo to thrash newcomers Luton Town 4-1. The Ecuadorian is about to grow to be the costliest participant in Premier League historical past after a 110 million kilos deal was agreed with Liverpool. However, Caicedo reportedly nonetheless prefers a transfer to Chelsea, who’ve had a sequence of bids rejected by Brighton. The Seagulls have additionally misplaced Alexis Mac Allister to Liverpool from the facet that completed sixth final season.

But two of the opposite stars of the 2022/23 marketing campaign mixed to open the scoring as Solly March headed in Kaoru Mitoma’s cross.

Joao Pedro opened his Brighton account from the penalty spot within the second-half earlier than Carlton Morris decreased Luton’s arrears from the spot on the different finish.

But late objectives from Simon Adingra and Evan Ferguson gave a fairer reflection of Brighton’s dominance to place Roberto De Zerbi’s males prime of the desk.

Everton’s want for a striker was laid naked because the Toffees wasted quite a few probabilities in shedding 1-0 at residence to Fulham. Bobby Decordova-Reid scored the one objective at Goodison Park 17 minutes from time.

Crystal Palace have been additionally 1-0 victors at promoted Sheffield United due to Odsonne Edouard’s second-half strike.

West Ham started life with out Rice with a 1-1 draw at Bournemouth as Dominic Solanke’s equaliser for the house facet cancelled out Jarrod Bowen’s opener.

Newcastle begin their marketing campaign afterward Saturday at residence to Aston Villa.

Chelsea and Liverpool will take their battle within the switch market onto the sphere after they face off within the conflict of the weekend on Sunday.

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