{"id":371182,"date":"2025-08-25T02:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T02:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/371182\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T02:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T02:00:10","slug":"yankuba-minteh-they-have-the-crowd-and-then-they-are-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/371182\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankuba Minteh: \u2018They have the crowd and then they are good\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brighton <\/a><\/strong>are still searching for their first victory of the new Premier League<\/a><\/strong> <\/strong>campaign, coming up short against Everton <\/a><\/strong>at their new home. For Yankuba Minteh<\/a><\/strong>, there was frustration at the defeat, but he spoke positively about the fans of the Toffees as one of the two reasons for this outcome.<\/p>\n

Brighton <\/a><\/strong>blew a one-goal lead at the Amex Stadium<\/a><\/strong> <\/strong>in injury time against Fulham <\/a><\/strong>on the opening matchday. For other reasons, this result is also a tough one to take, as the Seagulls are still winless.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not the result we want. We want to win but this is what we get. I think we need to push more. We need to be demanding in ourselves like to give it more 100%. This is not the <\/p>\n

result we want but we go back and then work hard and then think about the next step.\u201d<\/p>\n

Missed chances have haunted the Seagulls many times in the last twelve months, and few matches will be more painful than this defeat. Kaoru Mitoma<\/a><\/strong> <\/strong>made magic to crash a volley onto the bar, Jan Paul van Hecke <\/a><\/strong>hit the post, Danny Welbeck <\/strong>fired a cutback from Yankuba Minteh <\/a><\/strong>over the target, and Matt O’Riley<\/a><\/strong> <\/strong>fluffed his lines from a poor James Tarkowski<\/a><\/strong> <\/strong>back pass before the half was over.<\/p>\n

After the restart, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall<\/a><\/strong> <\/strong>handled a strike from Minteh inside the box, but Jordan Pickford<\/a><\/strong> <\/strong>parried Welbeck’s penalty. The winger was clear that the group have to accept responsibility.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s football. you know, you get your chances, you didn’t score. When the opponent get their chances, they will capitalize on it. We just need to work hard, just get back in the training and try to think about what is in front. We want to win, but we didn’t, but we need to think about what is in front now.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 21-year-old recorded an assist for Mitoma to mark the beginning of the Fabian Hurzeler<\/a><\/strong> <\/strong>era with a 3-0 triumph over the Toffees last August. The hosts have now left Goodison Park<\/a><\/strong>, and Minteh mentioned that the desire to win the first Premier League<\/a><\/strong>game at the new ground was a motivator.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey’re home. They have the crowd and then they are good. Everything is a good team. It’s not a bad team. It’s a good team and they take their chances. That’s all I\u2019d say. That’s why it is difficult for us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brighton are still searching for their first victory of the new Premier League campaign, coming up short against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[21116,1467,94,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-371182","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-brighton-hove-albion","9":"tag-everton-fc","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115086938832882176","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}