Brighton v. Everton | PREMIER LEAGUE HIGHLIGHTS | 5/8/2023 | NBC Sports

It's two changes to the team that beat Man United 1-0. Caicedo keeps his place as the makeshift right back, having played really, really well in that game. Gross comes in for Gilmour, just at the base of that midfield. He'll partner McAllister. Matoma, he's been really good this season. Seven goals, four assists. He scored in a reverse fixture. Mundov comes in for Enciso, just underneath Welbeck, who has surpassed his total production from last season. He'll be a real threat up top for the Seagulls. Massive day for Everton. This is how they'll line up. Yeah, two changes in the back line for Sean Dyche. Patterson at right back is a force change because club captain Seamus Coleman is expected to be out for the remainder of the season with a knee injury. But the other one's a big call. Gary Mina comes in for Keane, at the center back position. Big moment that calls for big decisions, and this is, Mina will have his hands full. I mean, look at Decore, just in the advanced midfield role. That's where he's been deployed under Sean Dyche, and it's paid dividends. He's had a lot of success there. McNeil, standout performer on the left-hand side. Five goals, two assists, and Calvert-Lewin, up top, scored his first goal since October. He can do with some more of those today. Simon Hooper is our referee, and it's Brighton and Hovaldian against Everton. What do Everton need to do today, Maddux, and how do they approach this very, very good Brighton side? Yeah, well, I think the best thing they can do is just make the game a bit untidy. Now, here's Calvert-Lewin with a lovely spin. Decore's in the middle. It's Decore! And it's scored! What a start! What an upset! What delirium from the Everton supporters! In their wildest dreams, they didn't think they'd be a goal up after only 30-odd seconds. Well, just absolute shell-shot around the amex. The usual calm Brighton start to the game. Mitoma takes a chance with the ball, but that run there from Calvert-Lewin just gets misjudged by Lewis Dunkey. He doesn't cut the ball out. And then Decore in the box. Well, it's a simple tap-in, but there's the mistake from Dunk. He's just out of position, doesn't adjust his feet well enough. Webster can't get the cut back, and there's Decore. Right place, right time. Simple touch on the ball just to see it home, and what a fast start from Everton. Love the aggression and how direct they were. Webster and Decore for Everton, and here they go again. It's Dwight McNeil. Iwobi's getting forward. Calvert-Lewin's already forward. Decore's getting forward. Decore's unmarked. Here he is. Oh, what a finish! He's doubled his goal tally for the whole season inside half an hour, and Everton are 2-0 up. Counterattacking football at its finest, and finishing from the top draw from Abdoulaye Decore. Well, this is just how they've been setting up all game, Everton, from the very first 30 seconds. It's a lovely return of possession, but look at the instinct of McNeil. The moment that ball turns over, he's gone. He knows where that space is, driving the ball forwards, gets his head up. The arrival of Decore, but let me tell you, that is not an easy finish. He has to adjust his feet, slow himself down. The ball's a little bit close to him, but he improvises. He just gets the contact, but that's not enough. He has to get the direction, and look at that. Beautiful, right in the near post. Absolutely perfection from Decore. Brilliant goal. A Decore double, and Everton ecstasy. Two goals to the good. He's headed to Iwobi, and here's Iwobi. Decore's on a hat-trick, and he's away to his left-hand side. If Iwobi finds him, that's going to send Decore chasing, but he will retrieve it. McNeil. Iwobi and Calvert-Lewitt in the middle. Everton a 3-0 up a side whose last and only away league victory this season was back in October. A 3-0 up against Europe, chasing Brighton in their own backyard. Unbelievable stuff I'm seeing here at the Amex. Looking around at the supporters, Brighton fans around me, they just can't believe it. It's almost a carbon copy of the type of breakaway that Brighton have been suffering against all game, really. Big credit to Everton for the positivity, but Steele there, he just takes it to gamble. He thinks the cross is going across the goal. He wants to cut it out. He goes too early, and the cross from McNeil just hits him in the shin and goes into his own net, but for me, it's all about the breakaway, the way that Everton have exposed those channels, the speed at which they've gone forward. Absolute credit to them, and Brighton, well, they just haven't been able to cope with it. March chopping inside of Iwobi. Pascal grows curling ball. What a save by Pickford to deny Ferguson. Well, the flag has gone up, which means that it wouldn't have counted, but Pickford wasn't to know, and he's just made a brilliant save. Super reaction from Jordan Pickford. I mean, that's a tight call. I'm not too sure if it would have been ruled out. It had a second look, but look at the save. Down to his right-hand side. Good glancing header from Ferguson. Solly March for Brighton. That's a bit short. Everton might break here. Idrissa Ganegei. McNeil's ahead of Iwobi, and Di Corre's off down the middle. Alex Iwobi into Dwight McNeil. McNeil to win the game for Everton. It's 4-0. A supreme sucker punch from Sean Dyche's team, who are 4-0 up at the Amex. It is the stuff of Evertonian dreams. What a disastrous moment for Brighton. Great for Everton. Just talking about them getting a foothold in the game, relieving the pressure, but Solly March pulling up with what looks to be a significant hamstring strain. As he tries to recover, I mean, they're in good possession. He gives the ball away here with such a sloppy pass, and then he has to really put it in to get back in. Iwobi's across the front of him, and then the hamstring goes, and now they're in big trouble. And Seesaw can't see the movement of Dwight McNeil. Really good pass from Iwobi. And then the composure of McNeil, for me, has just been absolutely outstanding for Everton today. Defensively and offensively. Shows real quality and calm in this moment. And it really is a lovely finish. He could just get a little bit rash here, but he sees Dunk commits him, skips around Steele. Here's Pascal Gros. Puyo and Seesaw. Pascal Gros. It's a lovely ball. Karu Mitoma has forced it over the line. There'll be a check. They need to check to see who got the final touch, but Brighton have a goal. It was a matter of time before they were going to score from one of these type of crosses. This time it's Pascal Gros with the in-swinger. Whether or not there's a touch there to put Mitoma offside. It's a real ricochet finish. Lovely delivery. Desire for the players to get in the box and score. McAllister's in there. It's his goal, isn't it? Yes. It's McAllister's goal, yeah. Off the post. On to McAllister. Hits him unawares, but it's all about the delivery from Pascal Gros. For me, super ball into the box. Iwobi. That's a good ball and McNeil is still full of running. And Iwobi is in the middle. McNeil has a little look up. And smashes in at fifth. Oh boy, what a finish. Brighton 1, Everton 5. Quite brilliant from Dwight McNeil, who must be in a strong field, Everton's man of the match. Well, if it was in doubt as to who the man of the match was, that doubt has just been taken away because this guy has had a game that he'll never forget. And I don't think Everton fans will forget. I mean, to just take this on, the moment he had that touch, I thought, it's gone now. He's got to cross this for Iwobi. But such is his confidence to find that kind of finish. Left foot, high. I mean, it's the perfect place to score from that kind of angle into that near post and high. It's the toughest spot for goalkeepers to reach. But he hits it with such pace and quality. Jason Steele has no chance to get a fingertip to it. And what a performance from Dwight McNeil. A magnificent day for Everton. A fantastic performance from front to back.