Post Match report for the Everton game - Sunday, 2nd January 2022
PREMIER LEAGUE 21/22: Everton V Brighton - 2/1/22, P19.
* * * * * ALBION GET MORE POINTS ON TRAVELS AFTER A BUSY WEEK * * * * *
RESULT: 2-3 ~ Mac Allister 2, Burn . (h-t 0-2) . . . SHAPE: 4-4-2
VENUE: Goodison Park, Liverpool - tenth away match of nineteen fixtures to date . Sun 2:00pm.
PRE-MATCH: it was New Year and Brighton fans travelled to Merseyside to see if their heroes could get anything.
WEATHER: wet at first . . . . GATE: tba . . . KIT: aqua & black.
GRAHAM POTTER made three alterations to the staring eleven that played away in midweek.
GP reintroduced Webster, Mwepu and Trossard . The bench appeared stronger now.
INJURY: 5 Dunk . . . SQUAD: 27 Locadia, 28 Roberts.
TEAM . . . . . . . . . . 1 Sanchez
. 34 Veltman, 4 Webster, 33 Burn, 3 Cucurella
. 12 Mwepu, 14 Lallana, 8 Bissouma, 10 Mac Allister
. . . . . . 11 Trossard . . . . . 9 Maupay
SUBS: 2 Lamptey (61), 24 Duffy (61), 15 Moder (81)
BENCH: 23 Steele, 13 Gross, 17 Alzate, 18 Welbeck, 20 March, 30 Richards.
GOALS: 0-1 - 3 . MAC ALLISTER prods in following a headed pass from Maupay to complete a team move.
0-2 - 21 . BURN heads close home after a pass from Mwepu resulting from a set piece.
1-2 - 53 . visitors give too much time and space to allow the ball carrier a shot, which is deflected.
1-3 - 71 . MAC ALLISTER fires a superb drive into the net, assisted by Mwepu.
2-3 - 76 . hosts bag a second as another cross come in.
INCIDENTS: 7 Mac A pop, 8 hosts booking, 9 Trossard dig, 10 Mwepu o/s, 19 hosts miss, 21 Bissouma effort, 22 hosts dig, 23 var check, 25 hosts miss pen, 30 Sanchez takes, 33 hosts o/s, 38 Lallana effort, 39 Burn header, 40 Sanchez saves, 44 Maupay miss,
48 Burn blocks, 49 Sanchez takes, 55 var check, 56 Sanchez punches, 59 Cucurella pop, 63 hosts miss, 68 Sanchez saves, 73 Bissouma try, 76 hosts sub, 86 hosts sub, 87 hosts miss, 89 hosts miss, 90 Sanchez takes, 90+ hosts miss, 90+ Duffy blocks.
YELLOWS: 63 Webster.
CHANGES: 61 Lamptey for Lallana, Duffy for Veltman . 81 Moder for Trossard.
FIRST HALF: previously postponed hosts were below par from kickoff and travellers duly took advantage of more game-tie momentum.
Going goals two up inside thirty minutes put visitors in the driving seat.
SECOND HALF: hosts response got them a toe-hold well before the hour mark.
Potter made alterations to personnel & shape via defensive subs - 352.
Restoring the two goal cushion made it doubly difficult for hosts to reclaim a point. But in a fluid situation the score quickly altered again and the final result was left in doubt.
Visitors game management was sorely test during closing phases.
In a hostile atmosphere, the job was done without undue worry from fickle finger of fate.
NUMBERS: poss 49%-51%, on target 6-5, off target 11-7, corners 8-5,
fouls 5-12, yellows 1-1, subs 2-3, shape 541-442 . . . . gd0 pt27 po8
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