By Alyce Collett (29/04/25)
On Sunday, Brighton and Hove Albion snapped a three match losing streak with a thrilling 3-2 win over Everton. In a high scoring, very even match, a 93rd minute winner from Nikita Parris saw the Seagulls head back to the south coast with all three points in hand.
The joy in Parris’ voice after the match was clear for all to hear, noting that she was “very happy we got the result today.”
“I felt in the first half we started too slow, and then we had to come back every time. But to get the response was so important for us as a team, our mentality, the resilience.”
“In the second half we dominated. We didn’t create clear good chances, which I feel like has been our theme throughout the season. We need to be able to have something to the end product of our possession because we absolutely battered Everton in the second off and we just needed that final ball, and that came in the final seconds of the game, which is the Brighton way right now talking about” Parris said with a chuckle.
The star striker also noted that she had her pre-planning to thank for being able to generate that match winner.
“I think that goal came from repetition practice from training, but also my analysis of the Everton defence and where the areas and the gaps will appear and when a new one is running behind them that the keeper would come rushing out, and I knew I had to put it either side of her,” she said.
Parris’ coach Dario Vidošić was just as happy post match as his star forward was, saying that he was “pleased and very happy, I think for the group as well. We’ve had some tough results, some where we played some good football and just didn’t get the rewards. But I think today we had to show character twice going down one nil to something that we spoke about, we practice. So it’s always a little bit harder, but again, fantastic reaction.
“I thought first half we got our rhythm, we were starting to get control. Probably got sucker punched by the two goals, but excellent response. Even at the start of the second half, we broke one on one, had a terrific chance, and that sort of set the tone.”
The calmness of his side was what pleased Vidošić most about his team’s performance.
“It felt, even though we had probably, you can have every right to [panic], you’re chasing the result, you want rectify things, you want to get back, but even in the second half we showed that calmness, even first half calmness. Even when we went one nail down, we started to play, stuff that we work on, that we practice.”
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