Brighton boss Roberto de Zerbi felt it was two points dropped after their 1-1 draw with Everton.

Jarrad Branthwaite had Everton ahead before Lewis Dunk struck an equaliser after Billy Gilmour was sent off for Brighton.

De Zerbi said: “Everton are a very good team but we played very well and I think we deserved to win. We have a big respect for the opponent always but I have to be honest and I think we played much better and we created more chances to score.

“But we are playing with a lot of, too many, injuries, especially in attack and we are losing a lot of important points and places in the table and I am frustrated for it because we have eight or nine draws – if you analyse these draws you can see how many times we deserved to win.

“I am frustrated because our table could be different if you analyse the quality of the games, how many chances we created in respect of the opponent – today was like Fulham, Burnley, Sheffield United.

“Today we made a lot of mistakes in the last 20 metres, we had many chances to score and we lost another two points."