{"id":2819699,"date":"2026-04-24T12:20:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2819699\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T12:20:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:20:31","slug":"rutter-brighton-will-keep-pushing-for-europe-after-spurs-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2819699\/","title":{"rendered":"Rutter: Brighton will keep pushing for Europe after Spurs draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Georginio Rutter insisted Brighton will &#8220;keep pushing&#8221; to qualify for Europe, after their dramatic draw against Tottenham.<\/p>\n<p>The Seagulls twice came from behind in a 2-2 draw at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, with Rutter coming off the bench to equalise in the 95th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Rutter\u2019s leveller was the 11th scored by a substitute for Brighton this season in the Premier League, with no side netting more goals courtesy of players coming off the bench\u00a0in the competition this term (Arsenal also 11).<\/p>\n<p>Brighton are now unbeaten in their last four away games in the league (W3 D1), only enjoying a longer unbeaten run on the road under Fabian Hurzeler once in the top-flight (five between\u00a0December 2024 and January 2025).<\/p>\n<p>The Seagulls remain one point behind seventh-place Brentford, who drew against\u00a0Fulham earlier on Saturday, though they could drop down the table if Everton beat Liverpool and Sunderland defeat Aston Villa on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Rutter hailed Brighton&#8217;s character to come back late on against Spurs, as they dream of a return to Europe.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The good thing is we came back. We took one point, better than nothing,&#8221; Rutter told Sky Sports.\u00a0&#8220;We could give up and we didn&#8217;t. We were pushing for the third goal as well, that shows big character.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We try to take it game by game. We knew today would not be easy because they want to push to stay in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are in good shape, too, because we haven&#8217;t lost for a long time. Maybe, at the end, one point is enough to go to Europe. We keep pushing.\u00a0We think about it [Europe]. I think about it because we are close.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brighton are back in action on Tuesday, when they face Champions League-chasing Chelsea at the Amex Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georginio Rutter insisted Brighton will &#8220;keep pushing&#8221; to qualify for Europe, after their dramatic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2819700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[389806],"tags":[188914,7293,2482],"class_list":{"0":"post-2819699","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-europe","8":"tag-europe","9":"tag-7293","10":"tag-2482"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/wakoka.com\/@news\/116459656143875320","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2819699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2819700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2819699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2819699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2819699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}