Roberto De Zerbi boasts a string of exciting young players but his real star is a 32-year-old German
By Ben McAleer for WhoScored
Brighton have a raft of young, exciting attackers on their books. João Pedro, the club’s 22-year-old top scorer this season with 19 goals, missed the trip to Sheffield United on Sunday with a hamstring injury, so Roberto De Zerbi called upon Simon Adingra, Facundo Buonanotte, Evan Ferguson and Ansu Fati – who are all below the age of 23. They left Bramall Lane with a 5-0 victory.
Buonanotte opened the scoring in the first half before Adingra – back from setting up Ivory Coast’s winning goal in the Afcon final – added two more. Fati and Ferguson both came on as second-half subs and, with each passing week, De Zerbi seems to pull another vibrant forward from up his sleeve. However, there has been one constant in Brighton’s season: Pascal Gross.
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