All the reaction from Brighton’s 5-0 Premier League win against Crystal Palace

Brighton enjoyed a memorable 5-0 win against old rivals Crystal Palace at the Amex Stadium.

The impressive Seagulls are second in the table - behind leaders Manchester City - with 16 points from 17 matches. Brighton’s resounding victory was a first over Palace at the fifth attempt under head coach Fabian Hurzeler.

Albion are also the division's highest scorers as their five-star display against Palace took their total to 23 goals so far.

An own goal from away defender Jaydee Canvot opened the scoring and a halfway line belter from Diego Gomez soon made it two.

His 51-metre finish conjured memories of David Beckham’s eye-catching effort against Wimbledon 30 years ago and was the longest-range Premier League goal since Wayne Rooney scored from 58 metres for Everton against West Ham in November 2017.

Yasin Ayari, Jack Hinshelwood and Charalampos Kostoulas sealed the victory.

Albion's goalscoring form is all the more impressive as Danny Welbeck - their leading scorer for the past two seasons - was sold to Chelsea last summer.

Hurzeler: We have the quality and hunger

Head coach Fabian Hurzeler said: "That's just quality. I'm not training with Gomez shooting from 50 metres.

"We try to create a hunger in the player, desire to score.

"When you have this desire then when you win the ball the perception of okay there's the goal. The goalkeeper's far out of the goal and then it's good first touch and then afterwards have second touch this scoring.

"It's more on these kind of things we are working on it's not too much about shooting from the distance, it's just like making the players quick in their mind.

"Making the players quick in the head to recognise the situation and then get immediately into actions."

Hurzeler surprised by goals

Brighton boss Hurzeler faced chants of “you’re getting sacked in the morning” during his team’s 1-0 home loss to the Eagles in February. This was a significantly more enjoyable occasion.

So has the goalscoring exploits of his team surprised the young German head coach?

"Of course it surprised me. Sitting here after a 5-0 win against Palace, I would lie when I say I expected a five nil.

"I said that you can't replace anybody one-to-one but what you can do, other players have to step up and what we have proven so far that we have a lot of different goal scorers.

"I think that's key for replacing a goal scorer like Daniel Welbeck. It's not up to one player. It's not all the pressure on one player, the pressure is on a lot of players and a lot of players have the the quality in our team to score goals and I think that's the most important."