Kirk Proud After Convincing Victory Over Brighton

Everton manager Willie Kirk was delighted with the performance as well as the result after seeing his team deservedly chalk up a third win of the Super League season with a 2-0 home success over Brighton & Hove Albion last Sunday.

- Tony Leighton

Second-half goals by Chloe Kelly and Esme Morgan gave the Blues a hard-earned victory at Southport FC to keep themselves in the top half of the table.

“It was a good way to bounce back after a couple of narrow defeats,” said Kirk. “We’d worked hard on our game plan and it was very pleasing to come off the park with what I thought were three well-deserved points.

“We missed a number of chances in the first half and tried to fix a couple of things at half-time – but then we missed our first chance of the second half and I’m thinking, is this going to backfire on us?’

“The goals came as a relief, but they were both good goals – and just as pleasing as them was another clean sheet.