Marco Silva expressed his belief that, despite not playing well at Brighton today, his Everton side did enough to win the game rather than losing.
“It wasn't the best performance, for sure,” Silva said. “It was a tough match, like we expected. It's always tough to play Brighton here. They keep doing well at home, they take most of the points that they have at home."
“We didn't start the game like we want or how we planned it. They started it in a better way, faster and more aggressive than us as well. Then we started to balance the game a bit more and finished the first half playing more in our way and creating some moments to finalise the action."
“When they created moments, it was just off set-pieces, nothing more."
“When you analyse the match, even if we didn't perform really well, we still had the best chances to score. This is the truth — we had one ball off the crossbar, one off the post and in one moment from a corner, one deflection of our player gave Locadia the chance to score."
Silva was asked if his team's inconsistency is frustrating and he admitted that his side was not on a good run of form but still maintained that Everton were unfortunate not to win today.
“Of course it's something you don't want,” the Portuguese replied. “We had a very good run [at one stage] and stability in our performances and in our results as well. Now we are in a different moment and we have to react."
“The result wasn't fair — we created more chances even if we didn't perform well but that's football but now we have to prepare and do everything to beat our next [opponents].”
