**Brighton**will be beating themselves up over their failure to take any points or even get a goal against Everton. Fabian Hurzeler had to brief the media about a "disappointing" and "frustrating" afternoon.
‘I think not only about the missed chances’
The result could have been very different. Danny Welbeck spooned a cutback over the target and missed a penalty, Kaoru Mitoma and **Jan Paul van Hecke**hit the frame of the goal, and Matt O'Riley allowed Jordan Pickford to bail out James Tarkowski following a sloppy back pass.
“Frustrating feeling, disappointing because I think we had good elements in the game. We started well with great chances, but in football it's about scoring and not conceding goals and there we are today not on our highest level. I think not only about the missed chances.”
However, the little things also accumulate. For David Moyes, attention to detail from set-pieces in all situations and defensive organisation have been the foundation for success. Hurzeler held up his hands to concede his camp could have been more mentally locked in to handle certain sorts of situations.
“It's about the small actions we didn't went or we didn't made right: after restarts, thro-ins, how you defend how do you defend the corner, how do you defend the one against one, there was some details where we have to improve. It's about helping. It's about communicating, supporting each other on the pitch. In some elements we were not in our highest level. That is the frustration inside of us. “
The club have brought in Maxim de Cuyper as a left back to take the place of Pervis Estupinan, and Oliver Boscagli brings depth from PSV Eindhoven as an extra central defender. But the manager admitted more incomings are unlikely, leaving him to raise the levels on the training ground.
“It's always difficult to answer why we have lost directly after the game, but there are there are some reasons. I think it's very important that we that we use every training session now that we try to step out of a comfort zone, that we stick together that we keep on doing the right things.”
Defensive grit must be on the agenda. Hurzeler's men dropped 22 points from winning positions last term in the Premier League, the most in the top tier, giving up eight goals after the 90th minute mark.
“I said there were still a lot of positive things on the pitch. We create a lot of chances but we need to create a defensive mindset that in the end clean sheets win games and then we have to improve.”