29 min The referee has been told to go to the monitor. I thought it might be a ‘referee’s call’ decision but there was definitely contact. The issue is whether it was sufficient to knock Adli off his feet.

28 min There’s a VAR check for a potential penalty.

27 min Bournemouth break from a Brighton corner. Tavernier gallops down the left and slides a pass towards Adli in the area. He knocks the ball past Verbruggen and then goes flying – but the referee Paul Tierney books him for diving.

I’d like to see that again because it looked like Verbruggen’s boot caught Adli’s thigh.

24 min Tavernier’s cross is backheaded into his own keeper’s hands by Gross. Not sure he meant it, but all’s well that ends well.

21 min Jimenez skips past Kadioglu on the right only to overhit his cross. It’s been an even game, but that evenness has come from each team dominating a 10-minute spell.

18 min Gomez does well to get between Tavernier and the ball in the Brighton area, though he has to concede another corner. It’s all Bournemouth now.

16 min This is a really good spell for Bournemouth. Tavernier storms past Kadioglou and cracks an inviting low cross that is turned behind by Van Hecke with Adli waiting behind him to score.

14 min Senesi’s ball over the top is controlled deftly on the run by Evanilson, who then hooks a left-foot shot that is comfortably saved by Verbruggen. Decent effort.

12 min A rare Bournemouth break leads to a corner when Evanilson’s long-range shot deflects behind.

10 min Brighton have had 78 per cent possession so far.

8 min Hinshelwood’s shot from the edge of the area deflects behind. The corner is taken short and worked infield Gruda, whose shot from the edge of the D is pushed away by the diving Petrovic. A fairly comfortable save.

6 min No surprise to see both teams pressing high up the pitch. So far it’s Brighton who are dominating possession.

4 min Kadioglu, playing at left-back tonight, cuts inside and hits a hopeful shot from the left edge of the penalty area. It bounces just in front of Petrovic, who holds on with authority. Good boy.

2 min “I have much interest in the game tonight,” writes Roger Kirkby. “If Bournemouth don’t win tonight, no team in the Premier League will have won their last two games. Something rare in the world of anoraks.”

Blimey. Do you know when it last happened?

1 min Brighton kick off from left to right as we watch, and Bournemouth striker Evanilson immediately sets off for the first press of the evening.

The players are ready to go on what looks a crisp evening in Brighton. Let’s play!

We’re only six months from the biggest single sporting occasion in the world. On 19 July in East Rutherford, New Jersey, the men’s World Cup final will kick off and a champion will be crowned (although it will be hard to top the last one).

The final will be more than a coronation (or confirmation, if Argentina repeat as champions). It will also be a culmination of six weeks of near non-stop soccer played across three countries, four time zones, and 16 cities. It’s likely that conclusions will already be drawn at that point on how the whole tournament fared. But for now, at this semi-convenient milestone, it’s worth taking stock of where we are six months out.

“Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day from across the the pond!” writes Peter Oh. “Doesn’t Amine Adli play for Morocco? If he gets to take a penalty for Bournemouth today I would strongly advise him not to, you know...”

In that scenario I’d be more worried about the Brighton players.

The beautiful game

Tonight’s game – please – will surely be quieter than last night’s