Joao Pedro's injury-time penalty saw Brighton beat Fulham 2-1 at the Amex as Fabian Hurzeler's side moved up to sixth place in the Premier League.
With the game virtually over, substitute Harrison Reed hacked down Pedro as the forward nipped in to win possession near the byline, with referee Sam Barrott immediately pointing to the spot.
Pedro kept his cool to beat Bernd Leno, despite the Fulham No 1 diving the right way and getting a hand to the penalty, as Brighton won a fourth successive top-flight match for the first time in almost 44 years.
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Brighton made two alterations from the side that beat Bournemouth last time out, with Jack Hinshelwood replacing full-back Tariq Lamptey -who served a one-match ban following his red card at Newcastle - while Yasin Ayari came in for Diego Gomez, who was benched.
As for the visitors, boss Marco Silva made five changes from the team that won 2-1 at Wolves in their last fixture, with midfielder Sasa Lukic starting a two-game Premier League ban after picking up 10 yellow cards and forward Adama Traore missed out after injuring his ankle against Manchester United last weekend.
That meant starts for Antonee Robinson, Calvin Bassey, Alex Iwobi, Emile Smith Rowe and Raul Jimenez, with Rodrigo Muniz, Ryan Sessegnon and Jorge Cuenca all dropping to the bench.
These two evenly-matched sides had come into the game in impressive form, although for large parts of the contest they cancelled each other out in the south-coast sunshine.
It was Alex Iwobi and Raul Jimenez who combined to open the scoring for the visitors as the former made a lung-busting 60-yard run down the right flank, before sending in a high cross that the Mexico striker did brilliantly to chest down before beating Bart Verbruggen with a low drive at his near post.
Raul Jimenez celebrates after givng Fulham a first-half lead at Brighton
Image: Raul Jimenez celebrates after givng Fulham a first-half lead at Brighton
The lead lasted just over five minutes, however, as Brighton soon levelled through Jan Paul van Hecke's first goal for the club, with the tall centre-back rising high to head home Yasin Ayari's looping free-kick as Fulham's defence went to sleep.
In a cagey second period, the closest either team came to grabbing a winner was when the unmarked Kaoru Mitoma tapped home at the far post after a lovely passing move, only for the flag to immediately go up to correctly judge Yankuba Minteh offside after being released by Pedro.
Jan Paul van Hecke celebrates after equalising for Brighton against Fulham
Image: Jan Paul van Hecke celebrates after equalising for Brighton against Fulham
That was until the late drama, though, with the three points moving Brighton level on points with fifth-placed Chelsea, albeit having now played a game more than the Blues, while Fulham stay ninth.
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