Disorderly Dunk’s in dock for defeat

A CASE of Dunk and disorderly got a relievedWolves out of jail.

Brighton were in control at Molineux, leading through Lewis Dunk’s towering header.

But the Brighton captain’s red card eight minutes after the break changed everything.

The Seagulls shipped two goals in the last 16 minutes then also had Neal Maupay sent off after the final whistle for a huge strop.

Wolves had been anaemic for 45 minutes but Morgan GibbsWhite’s first Premier League goal gave them victory in added time after Adama Traore’s leveller.

Gibbs-White had missed a sitter to win it six minutes from time, but hit the gold standard with the hourglass down to the last grains of sand.

Despite their defeat, the future looks promising for Brighton, with manager Graham Potter’s enterprise never deserting him. The Seagulls have the tallest defence in the country and after 13 minutes they made their first set piece count.

Dunk’s fifth goal of the season, from a Pascal Gross delivery, was a stunning exercise in simplicity: corner, header, back of the net.

Assigning 5ft 11in midfielder Ruben Neves to shadow Brighton’s 6ft 4in captain was asking for trouble – and Wolves got it. Since his Premier League debut four years ago, Dunk’s 11 goals are more than any other top-flight centre-back.

But Wolves, who fielded five players aged 21 and under, could not be as feeble in the second half. Dunk helped when he hauled back Fabio Silva with a blatant shirt-pull and was sent off.

Substitute Traore then played an exquisite one-two with Silva before ramming his finish home.

Traore’s half-hour cameo changed the game. The flying winger charged down Robert Sanchez’s clearance and set up Gibbs-White with the goal gaping, only for the 21-year-old to shovel his finish over from 12 yards.

But Gibbs-White would not be denied and, 15 seconds from time, he found the top corner to win it. WOLVES (4-2-3-1): Patricio 6; Hoever 7, Coady 7, Kilman 7, Ait-Nouri 6; Moutinho 8, Neves 6 (Traore 61, 8); Vitinha 5 (Dendoncker 77, 6), Gibbs-White 6, Podence 4 (Willian Jose 69, 5); Silva 6. Goals: Traore 76, Gibbs-White 90. BRIGHTON (3-4-1-2): Sanchez 7; White 7, Dunk 6, Webster 7; Jahanbakhsh 5 (Moder 58, 5), Bissouma 8, Gross 7, Burn 7; Trossard 6 (Mac Allister 58, 6); Maupay 5, Welbeck 6 (Zeqiri 78). Goal: Dunk 13. Sent off: Dunk 53, Maupay 90.