PREMIER LEAGUE : SATURDAY – EVERTON VS BRIGHTON AND HOVE ALBION – 17/08/2024

FABIAN HURZELER’S FIRST DAY AT THE OFFICE AS THE NEW BRIGHTON MANAGER (THE YOUNGEST PERMANENT MANAGER EVER IN PREMIER LEAGUE HISTORY) COULDN’T HAVE GONE ANY BETTER YESTERDAY, AS DESPITE A DETERMINED START FROM EVERTON, WITH A POWERFUL STRIKE FROM HARRISON EARLY DOORS, THEIR EFFORTS WERE CONFOUNDED BY THE EXTREMELY ENERGETIC SEAGULLS, WITH KAORU MITOMA SCORING A STUNNER AT 25 MINS., AND DANNY WELLBECK ANOTHER AT 56 MINS., AND THEN, TO MAKE MATTERS WORSE, ASHLEY YOUNG WAS GIVEN A RED CARD AT 66 MINS. FOR PULLING MITOMA BACK BY HIS HAND, MEANING THAT EVERTON WERE DOWN TO 10 MEN! BRIGHTON’S SIMON ADINGRA THEN WENT ON TO SCORE A SUPERB LATE FINISHER AT 87 MINS, MEANING THAT THE GAME CULMINATED IN A 3 – 0 WIN TO BRIGHTON!

EVERTON VS BRIGHTON AND HOVE ALBION

AFTERWARDS, BRIGHTON’S NEW BOSS FABIAN HURZELER SAID, “IN SOME MOMENTS, WE SUFFERED, BUT WE SUFFERED TOGETHER AND DEFENDED GOOD. THE PLAYERS SHOWED ATTITUDE AND CHARACTER. IT’S A GOOD START, NOTHING MORE. IT’S IMPORTANT TO STAY HUMBLE IN MOMENTS LIKE THIS.”