Brighton 2-1 Man United: Fabian Hurzeler Hails 'Special' Joao Pedro After Late Winner

Fabian Hurzeler hailed "special" Joao Pedro after the forward scored a late winner for Brighton and Hove Albion against Manchester United. (More Football News)

Joao Pedro conve🅰rted Simon Adingra's back-post cross in the 95th minute to earn Brighton a 2-1 victory in Saturday's Pre๊mier League contest.

The Brazil international's goal came after Alejandro Garnacho had an effort ruled out by VAR at 1-1 as Albio♕n went on to make it two wins from two this season.

Danny Welbeck had earlier opened the scoring for Brighton with 32 minutes played, before A♛mad Diallo's leveller on the hour mark.

Asked about Joao Pedro's last-gasp winner, Hurzeler told BBC Sport: "I think Joao is a player who can d🎃ecide the game with one action. 

"For me, it was impressive today how he worked against the ball.👍 He had the belief he would score and that's something that makes him special.🅰" 

No player on the Amex ♎Stadium pitch managed more than Joao Pedro's two shots on target - level with team-mate Welbeck.

He accumulated an expected ౠgoals (xG) value of 0.52, with this his third goal in four league meetings with Manchester United.

Brighton have now won back-to-back games to begin the Premier League campaign, having eased to a 3-0 win at Everton last weeke🧔nd.

Hurzeler has therefore started his tenure with successive victories and felt his side🀅 were good value for their latest win over Man United.

"Itꦇ was a very emotional [win]," he said. "Always when you get the win 🌞in the last minute it is. I think we deserved to win.

"We had a good game, not a perfect game. There were also situations where United had the chance to 🍷win the ga𓆏me.

"After their offside goal, I think we started to control the game again🔜. In the end, I think we deserved 🌄to win."

Only Manchester City (eight) have won m🍎ore Premier League games a𓆉gainst Man United than Brighton (seven) since the start of 2017-18.

Hurze✤ler added: "I'm very proud of the team. They showed the value of never giving up and that's very importaꦬnt to me."