Brighton 0-1 Everton: Halftime | DCL injured, Ndiaye scores penalty

01/25/2025 11:02 AM

The Blues are away at the Seagulls in Moyes first road game since his return

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Halftime Thoughts - Everton repelled the early push from Brighton and Moyes made the necessary changes to slow the game down. Going exactly to plan for the Blues here at the Amex.

45+8' - The halftime whistle goes, Everton lead 1-0 against Brighton.

45+4' - Baleba tries a shot from far, far away and it's well wide.

45+2' - Baleba's frustration starting to show here as he goes right through the Amex's Public Enemy #1 Ndiaye, and he's booked too.

45' - We're going to have seven (!!) minutes added on here.

44' - Ndiaye is booked for his overexuberant celebrations, did look like he was taunting the home crowd. Oops.

42' - Lindstrom protected the penalty spot during the melee, and now Ndiaye steps up to take the penalty.. deep breath.. GOAL!! Pushes it past Verbruggen into the left corner of the goal, the goalie had guessed right but the placement was perfect. Everton lead 1-0!

38' - Some drama here. Veltman and Beto both fighting for the ball moving towards the goalline, and it looked like the Brighton player punched the ball out for a corner! VAR is looking at it now, and ref Tim Robinson is being sent to the screen. He says penalty!
The Amex is not thrilled at all by the decision but it was a stupid decision for Veltman to do what he did.

34' - Not much going on here to be honest. If Everton's goal is to slow the game down and make it dull and boring, then it's working.

28' - Pedro shot blocked by Tarkowski. Lamptey cross blocked by O'Brien.
Now Lindstrom fouls Lamptey just outside the right edge of the box, and he'll be booked too. Ayari swings it into the six-yard box, Pickford punches clear and the immediate threat is quelled.

27' - Everton moving the ball through the middle and pushing forward, but Mitoma hunts Gana down much like the Everton midfielder usually does himself.

23' - The battles are being fought in the middle - Doucoure wins the ball, Ayari steals it, then Gana nicks it off him.

20' - Brighton are mostly dictating play here, though the Blues are keeping them at arm's length. Ndiaye is looking the liveliest of the lot here.

14' - Everton almost got gifted a goal there. Doucoure finds Beto in the box and he cannot control a simple pass. Baleba takes the ball and then overruns it and gets in a bind with Verbruggen and lucky for them the ball goes out for a corner.
Corner is easily cleared.

12' - Uh-oh. Dominic Calvert-Lewin goes up for a ball and comes back down clutching his right hamstring. That might be the end of his game here.
Beto is warmed up and comes on for DCL now.

10' - Brighton are focusing on the Everton right with both Lamptey and Mitoma getting some joy against Lindstrom and O'Brien.
A cross into the box is met by Joao Pedro and he heads well over.

7' - Brighton are hemming Everton in their own box and have a blocked shot that falls to Gruder but he's offside.

4' - Lamptey cuts inside O'Brien and beats him to a long ball, but his ball across the box is neither a shot nor a cross and Everton survive.

3' - Ndiaye's effort wins the Blues a throw-in deep in the Seagulls half. Mykolenko tries to weave through a third player but it's one too far.

1' - And we're underway at the Amex. Everton in their grey and yellow away kit here

Starting Lineups

Everton - Moyes decides not to mess with a good things with both O'Brien and Lindstrøm keeping their spots.

Brighton -

Preview

The good feelings are back at Everton after that win against Tottenham Hotspur last weekend. However, the Blues face a different and in many ways more difficult challenge today when they travel to the south coast to take on Brighton & Hove Albion.

The Seagulls are unbeaten since the middle of December, though like Everton a number of those results were draws. In their last home game they held Arsenal to a draw and then picked up two away wins on the trot against Ipswich Town and Manchester United. Brighton sit in ninth place and are in contention for a European berth, just four points off fourth place Manchester City.

Match Details

Competition: Premier League Matchweek 23

Date and start time: Saturday, January 25th at 7:00 a.m. PT / 10:00 a.m ET / 3:00 p.m. BST

Stadium: Amex Stadium, Brighton, England, United Kingdom

Capacity: 31,876

Weather: 43°F/6°C, cloudy, 10% chance of precipitation, 5 mph winds

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Last Meeting

The Blues do not have a good recent record against the high-flying Seagulls; however, they are unbeaten in their last four visits to the Amex Stadium, including two wins, one of which was the memorable 5-1 victory late in the 2022-23 season to help seal survival.

The two sides met at Goodison Park to open the current season in a game which did not go well for the hosts, with Brighton coming away 3-0 winners.