Rewiring a kitchen down light

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Hello. I had 3 downlighting kitchen lights not working so I purchased closet to match. I took one down and took a photo of wiring. It at 6 wires. 2 L, 2 N, 2E. I rewired that light just a push in wire, clicked in and checked light that one worked fine. The other I remove only had 3 wires that clicked into place. I clicked them into L brown wire, Blue Neutral and Yellow and greeny blue Earth. Wired them up but when I powered up the fuse box kept getting thrown. All power off. Lite flashed on for a second and then through fuse box. So took the wires out and I had just clicked in and the light and all other lights worked. It's just this one throwing fuse box. I have placed a image up on this site showing the sequence the wires that click in run in.
L . E. N & N. E . L
I put the corresponding colour to the letter. Then switch power on and are everytime, it throws the power off.
Not to sure what I'm doing wrong guys, the 6 wired one I put in works. But the 3 wire one dont, throws power everytime. If I disconnect it. All the lights come on. So I take it, that its me not running the right wires to right place. Any help appreciated. Many thanks.
 

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