Sunday 30 December 2018

Jürgen Locadia strike enough to steer Brighton to victory over Everton

Six weeks ago, Jürgen Locadia, down on his luck and appearing to correctly perceive his Premier League move had turned sour, suggested he would use the winter months “to think if this is still good for me”.

Brighton would say it seems pretty fine at this point. Locadia, a £14m purchase from PSV Eindhoven in January, had not scored this season until Boxing Day and seemed bound to be remembered as a footnote in history: the one-time record signing who rarely played and hardly found the net. But he has now earned his team four points in four days, his winner on the hour punishing Everton for a negligent start to the second half and if the outcome offered few definitive conclusions about two maddeningly inconsistent sides then perhaps it at least lessened Chris Hughton’s need to shuffle his attacking pack next month.

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from Football | The Guardian http://bit.ly/2StIfsY

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