Everton v Brighton: Final | Humiliation at Goodison Park

Fulltime Thoughts – Everton looked the same as last season, which you would think was a positive but instead it turned on Dyche as Brighton’s pace caught his side flat-footed.

90+11’ – There it is finally, phew. Brighton destroy Everton 3-0, but the game seemed to have hinged on a penalty to the Blues that was overturned when it was still 1-0.

90+10’ – Just blow the damn whistle.

90+6’ – Still not over, urgh. Brighton just passing it around.

90’ – Nine minutes to be added on. No idea why.
Some guy called Ayari has come on and scores with his first touch. Holgate has no idea where he is and he touches it home with Pickford in no man’s land, 4-0 now.
VAR saves Holgate’s blushes though, marginally offside for the Brighton man.

87’ – Another counter, another goal. This time it’s Adingra tucking his finish beyond Pickford. Myko left his man free as he cut in and jumped on Welbeck’s incisive pass, 3-0. The humiliation continues.

80’ – Another awful cross-field pass and now Mitoma can attack, his ball into the box for Pedro is cut out well by Pickford.
Cross into the box, cleared for a corner. The visitors look more likely to score a third than Everton getting anything here. Milner corner cleared, ball back into the box is also hoofed clear by Iro.

78’ – Tarky late on Joao Pedro, yellow card. The Everton captain didn’t even bother to face Hooper on that one.

76’ – Calvert-Lewin comes off, Beto comes on for him. Ndiaye has had one touch in the twelve minutes he’s been on, by the way.

73’ – Myko out of position and then Keane decides to step up when he’s nowhere near the ball, and now Brighton have acres of space and yellow shirts on the right, but Tarky comes over to cut it out for a corner.

71’ – McNeil is covering at right-back for Everton after Young’s red card.

66’ – Oh dear. Long ball, and Young miscontrols it and Mitoma pounces and proceeds to run away, and the veteran fullback yanks him back and he is sent off. Pretty obvious.
Milner steps up to take the freekick, takes it sideways to Mitoma whose shot is saved by Pickford, corner. Taken short, Pickford collects.

62’ – The Blues’ first change of the afternoon will be Iliman Ndiaye making his debut for the Blues, with Doucoure coming off.
Iro now with a mistake and it takes Tarky and Pickford to combine to foil Mitoma, corner. The corner is cleared way upfield, but the Blues have no players out there.

58’ – Everton sliced wide open again, lucky though that Adingra’s cross is too close to Pickford this time.

56’ – Gueye misplaced pass, Brighton push forward through Welbeck, 3-on-2, and he does it himself, beating Pickford on the goalie’s right, 2-0 to the visitors. Good night?

55’ – McNeil has been completely invisible today. The Blues better be making some changes at the hour mark, but there’s no subs warming up on the Everton bench.

52’ – Harrison collects another lovely diagonal deep ball, cross into the box and Doucs’ header goes off Veltman’s arm, but again no penalty. The defender looks to have clashed heads possibly with Doucs, because he’s been down for some time now. He’s going to go off, with Baleba coming on. Nope, scratch that he’s staying on.

47’ – Brighton turn the ball over in their own box and Dunk cuts DCL down, penalty!! Hooper is going to go over to the VAR screen though, so this might be reviewed.
Hooper comes back and says no penalty, and Goodison is very unimpressed.

46’ – Second half underway, no changes from either side.

Halftime Thoughts – Everton did not take advantage of the chances they created from the high press early on, and once Brighton settled in they had the time to start carving the Blues open.