Brighton & Hove Albion 1-5 Everton: Visitors climb out of relegation zone with stunning win

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Everton produced a superb show of counter-attacking to ascent retired of the Premier League relegation portion with a stunning triumph that dented Brighton's European ambitions.

An bonzer archetypal fractional saw the visitors spell up aft conscionable 34 seconds, with Dominic Calvert-Lewin squaring for Abdoulaye Doucoure to pat successful aft Seagulls skipper Lewis Dunk had been severely caught out.

Mali midfielder Doucoure added Everton's 2nd conscionable earlier the half-hour people with a precise volley, into the close country from Dwight McNeil's cross.

McNeil was past heavy progressive arsenic Sean Dyche's broadside extended their lead, driving towards the byeline and seeing his debased transverse deflect disconnected the ft of Brighton goalkeeper Jason Steele into the backmost of the net.

A shambolic archetypal play saw Brighton booed disconnected astatine the interval, fortunate not to person suffered the embarrassment of being 4 goals down, with Dunk blocking James Garner's close-range effort connected the changeable of half-time.

A mightily awesome show from Everton, who repeatedly threatened connected the interruption during the archetypal fractional and defended stoutly successful the second, saw them adhd their 4th erstwhile McNeil raced connected to Alex Iwobi's incisive walk to circular Steele and slot into an bare net.

Roberto de Zerbi's side, who were overmuch improved aft making 4 half-time changes, saw substitute Evan Ferguson (twice) and Alexis Mac Allister deed the woodwork, earlier they yet managed a scrappy consolation with Kaoru Mitoma's sliding effort rebounding disconnected the station and bouncing successful disconnected Mac Allister.

A fantastic McNeil effort successful added time, that flew into the apical corner, ensured Everton had the last accidental arsenic they moved retired of the driblet portion successful style, to beryllium 16th successful the array aft leapfrogging Nottingham Forest, Leeds and Leicester City.

Forest big bottommost broadside Southampton astatine 20:00 BST connected Monday.

Meanwhile, Brighton stay seventh, 7 points down fifth-placed Liverpool, with 2 games successful hand.

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Brighton & Hove Albion

Squad number23Player nameSteele
Squad number13Player nameGroß
Squad number4Player nameWebster
Squad number5Player nameDunk
Squad number30Player nameEstupiñán
Squad number25Player nameCaicedo
Squad number10Player nameMac Allister
Squad number40Player nameBuonanotte
Squad number21Player nameUndav
Squad number22Player nameMitoma
Squad number18Player nameWelbeck

Squad number6Player nameColwill
Squad number7Player nameMarch
Squad number20Player nameEnciso
Squad number27Player nameGilmour
Squad number28Player nameFerguson

Everton

Squad number1Player namePickford
Squad number3Player namePatterson
Squad number13Player nameMina
Squad number2Player nameTarkowski
Squad number19Player nameMykolenko
Squad number37Player nameGarner
Squad number27Player nameGueye
Squad number17Player nameIwobi
Squad number16Player nameDoucouré
Squad number7Player nameMcNeil
Squad number9Player nameCalvert-Lewin

Squad number8Player nameOnana
Squad number20Player nameMaupay

Line-ups

Brighton

Formation 4-2-3-1

23Steele
13Groß
4WebsterSubstituted forColwillat 45'minutes
5DunkBooked astatine 21mins
30Estupiñán
25Caicedo
10Mac Allister
40BuonanotteSubstituted forMarchat 45'minutesSubstituted forGilmourat 78'minutes
21UndavSubstituted forEncisoat 45'minutes
22Mitoma
18WelbeckSubstituted forFergusonat 45'minutes

Substitutes

1Sánchez
6Colwill
7March
20Enciso
26Ayari
27Gilmour
28Ferguson
29van Hecke
49Moran

Everton

Formation 4-2-3-1

1Pickford
3Patterson
13MinaBooked astatine 18mins
2Tarkowski
19Mykolenko
37Garner
27GueyeBooked astatine 25minsSubstituted forOnanaat 87'minutesBooked astatine 80mins
17Iwobi
16DoucouréBooked astatine 56mins
7McNeil
9Calvert-LewinBooked astatine 45minsSubstituted forMaupayat 87'minutes

Substitutes

4Holgate
5Keane
8Onana
11Gray
15Begovic
20Maupay
26Davies
30Coady
50Simms

Referee:Simon Hooper

Attendance:31,567

Live Text

Match ends, Brighton and Hove Albion 1, Everton 5.
Second Half ends, Brighton and Hove Albion 1, Everton 5.
Goal! Brighton and Hove Albion 1, Everton 5. Dwight McNeil (Everton) near footed changeable from the near broadside of the container to the apical near corner. Assisted by Amadou Onana with a done shot pursuing a accelerated break.
Lewis Dunk (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a escaped footwear successful the antiaircraft half.
Foul by Neal Maupay (Everton).
Attempt missed. Levi Colwill (Brighton and Hove Albion) header from the centre of the container misses to the left. Assisted by Pascal Groß with a transverse pursuing a corner.
Corner, Brighton and Hove Albion. Conceded by Dwight McNeil.
Attempt missed. Moisés Caicedo (Brighton and Hove Albion) close footed changeable from extracurricular the container is excessively high. Assisted by Evan Ferguson.
Attempt blocked. Billy Gilmour (Brighton and Hove Albion) close footed changeable from extracurricular the container is blocked. Assisted by Pascal Groß.
Corner, Brighton and Hove Albion. Conceded by Vitalii Mykolenko.
Attempt saved. Evan Ferguson (Brighton and Hove Albion) near footed changeable from the centre of the container is saved successful the bottommost close corner.
Substitution, Everton. Neal Maupay replaces Dominic Calvert-Lewin.
Substitution, Everton. Amadou Onana replaces Idrissa Gueye.
Attempt blocked. Billy Gilmour (Brighton and Hove Albion) close footed changeable from extracurricular the container is blocked. Assisted by Pervis Estupiñán.
Corner, Brighton and Hove Albion. Conceded by Nathan Patterson.
Attempt missed. Levi Colwill (Brighton and Hove Albion) with an effort from the close broadside of the six gait container is excessively high. Assisted by Kaoru Mitoma pursuing a corner.
Attempt missed. Kaoru Mitoma (Brighton and Hove Albion) close footed changeable from the near broadside of the container misses to the right. Assisted by Pascal Groß with a transverse pursuing a corner.
Corner, Brighton and Hove Albion. Conceded by Nathan Patterson.
Corner, Brighton and Hove Albion. Conceded by James Tarkowski.
Attempt blocked. Moisés Caicedo (Brighton and Hove Albion) close footed changeable from extracurricular the container is blocked. Assisted by Evan Ferguson.

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