Everton V Brighton: First Premier League Match At Hill Dickinson Stadium – Live

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Everton XI: Pickford, O’Brien, Tarkowski, Keane, Iroegbunam, Garner, Gueye, Ndiaye, Dewsbury-Hall, Grealish, Barry.

Subs: Onyango, Armstrong, Aznou, Alcaraz, Coleman, Chermiti, Beto, McNeil, Travers.

Jack Grealish starts his first game, coming successful for Carlos Alcaraz (not that one) and Thierno Barry comes successful for Beto.

Brighton XI: Verbruggen, Wieffer, van Hecke, Dunk, De Cuyper, Baleba, Ayari, Minteh, O’Riley, Mitoma, Welbeck.

Subs: Steele,Gruda, Hinshelwood, Milner, Boscagli, Kadioglu, Gomez, Veltman, Coppola.

Brighton’s 1 alteration is enforced, Georginio Rutter has a flimsy sound and drops retired of nan squad, that allows Danny Welbeck to commencement up top.

Preamble

It is much than a twelvemonth since Brighton departed Goodison Park for nan past time. It was an affectional time for nan hosts, arsenic what should person been a commencement to a glorious to nan last play astatine their celebrated aged location turned sour. By full-time, Everton fans were streaming retired of nan crushed arsenic Brighton eased to a 3-0 win.

So it is that nan Seagulls are besides Everton’s first visitors of nan play for nan 2025-26 campaign, but overmuch has changed successful nan past 12 months. Everton person a different head successful nan dugout and a different proprietor successful nan stands. Ashley Young is nary longer nan starting right-back. Jack Grealish has arrived to effort and gain a spot connected nan level to North America for adjacent summer’s World Cup. Am I missing something?

Ah yes, we’re astatine Hill Dickinson Stadium now. A spaceship has landed astatine Bramley-Moore Dock successful nan style of a 52,000-seater modern venue and location is, arsenic is customary, a swell of positivity rolling successful disconnected nan Mersey. David Moyes has already avenged that opening time rollicking from past season, by guiding Everton to an disfigured 1-0 triumph astatine nan Amex successful January. His West Ham teams ne'er did that good against Brighton but he has spoken astir making Everton fans autumn successful emotion pinch their caller surroundings. His broadside will request to beryllium amended than they were against Leeds connected Monday night, astatine least.

Fabian Hürzeler should person had his first triumph of nan play already. Brighton’s capacity against Fulham wasn’t that inspiring but to concede from a set-piece pinch almost nan game’s past footwear was cruel. The Seagulls are not known arsenic heartbreakers. If thing they regularly supply a cure for agelong winless runs aliases spells of mediocre shape - Dr Brighton, if you will.

On immoderate different occasion, this would beryllium a crippled nan Seagulls would beryllium targeting for triumph if they want to fulfil their owner’s lofty extremity of European qualification. This Everton broadside correspond a beautiful bully opportunity for an distant win, but nan caller stadium is simply a complicating facet and besides a constituent of interest. Let’s conscionable dream it’s not 0-0.