Fresh from breaking new ground with a maiden European victory, Brighton & Hove Albion switch back to Premier League duties on Sunday, when Fulham make the journey to the Amex Stadium.
The Seagulls saw off crisis club Ajax 2-0 on Thursday for their first-ever Europa League win, while Marco Silva's men most recently lost by the same scoreline to London rivals Tottenham Hotspur.
However, with the perennial Dutch champions enduring an alarming slump and lacking a new manager bounce following the sacking of Maurice Steijn, Brighton prolonged Ajax's misfortune with a deserved 2-0 triumph on the South Coast, where Joao Pedro and Ansu Fati wrote their names into Seagulls history.
Seeing off the Amsterdam powerhouses was the perfect tonic to a distressing five-game winless run for Roberto De Zerbi's troops, who gave a good account of themselves away to Manchester City last weekend and were a man up in the dying embers owing to Manuel Akanji's red card, but the champions still prevailed 2-1.
Facing all of Chelsea, Ajax, Man City, Aston Villa, Liverpool and Marseille represented a particularly gruelling set of fixtures for Brighton, whose three-game winless run in the top flight has bumped them down to seventh in the division, four points adrift of the Champions League places.
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