Brighton and Leeds played out a score draw on the South Coast, with the points shared from an entertaining contest.
Jayden Bogle opened the scoring for the Whites but Brighton ensured a share of the spoils thanks to Luka Vuskovic’s second half header.
Brighton are now on four points, with Leeds a point better off and Daniel Farke’s men are, crucially, still unbeaten this season.
Leeds peppered Brighton’s goal at regular junctures from the start and there was just 15 minutes on the clock when they scored the opener. Bogle was on hand to tap in from a yard out after Ao Tanaka picked him out following Brighton stopper Bart Verbruggen’s good reaction save to keep out a header from Dominic Calvert-Lewin.
Leeds now had the bit between their teeth and after sloppy passing from the hosts it was pounced on by the visitors and fed to Calvert-Lewin. The England striker then raced through on goal and rounded Verbruggen and looked destined to score only for switched-on home skipper Lewis Dunk to get back and put in a vital clearance just a few yards from his goal-line.
Tanaka then produced a downward volley that bounced up and onto the crossbar, as Albion had another escape. The home fans inside the Amex had seen precious little from an attacking point of view up until that point but thankfully for them their team rallied before the break.
Pascal Gross whistled a fierce, lay-off from a free-kick just over the bar before Diego Gomez saw an attempt saved well by Leeds stopper James Trafford at his near-post as the hosts ended the half strongly.
But it would be Leeds who came out livelier after the interval. Anton Stach was denied by the legs of Verbruggen just after half-time before the Yorkshire side thought they’d finally doubled their buffer.
Tanaka applied a nice, first-time finish to Stach’s delivery, but it was ultimately ruled out for offside. That proved to be the key moment of the game as not long after the hosts levelled up.
Luka Vuskovic – Brighton’s club record signing – was completely unmarked as he nodded in from a corner to make it 1-1 and punish Leeds’ profligacy.
If anyone was going to win it then it was Albion who looked more likely as the game ticked towards its conclusion, as they were probing more. But the best chance fell to Gross and he – probably in keeping with the whole contest – spurned a glorious chance to pinch all the points as he blazed over inside the box late on.
