{"id":442742,"date":"2026-02-01T12:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T12:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/442742\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T12:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T12:12:09","slug":"brighton-1-1-everton-beto-scores-late-equaliser-as-visitors-hold-seagulls-to-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/442742\/","title":{"rendered":"Brighton 1-1 Everton: Beto scores late equaliser as visitors hold Seagulls to draw"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everton’s push for a European place was dealt a blow this week as news emerged that injured Jack Grealish is expected to miss the rest of the season<\/a>. <\/p>\n

But David Moyes was boosted by the return of both Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall and Jarrad Branthwaite to the starting line-up at Brighton. <\/p>\n

Dewsbury-Hall contributed four goals and three assists before picking up a hamstring injury in December, while centre-back Branthwaite made his first start of the season. <\/p>\n

Thierno Barry headed into the game with four goals in his past five appearances, but the striker hardly got a look-in during an underwhelming first half for the visitors.<\/p>\n

However, Everton’s response in the second half was impressive. <\/p>\n

They had seven shots after the break, four of them on target, and Brighton’s opener came firmly against the run of play.<\/p>\n

But Moyes’ side did not let their shoulders drop and found the leveller from almost the final passage of play. <\/p>\n

Verbruggen could only parry O’Brien’s shot into the path of Beto and the striker, who has been limited to bit-part roles in recent months, emerged the hero.<\/p>\n

There was a video assistant referee (VAR) check on whether Tarkowski was interfering with play from an offside position, but it was ruled in Everton’s favour. <\/p>\n

The Toffees will go home the happier side, preserving their excellent record on the road with four wins, two draws and one defeat from past seven games. <\/p>\n

And more importantly, they sit only two points behind their Merseyside rivals Liverpool and four behind fourth-placed Manchester United. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everton’s push for a European place was dealt a blow this week as news emerged that injured Jack…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-442742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}