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While plenty - managers, players, the level, even the stadium - has changed about Brighton over the past 15 years, one thing hasn't: Lewis Dunk.

It was fitting that the Seagulls skipper - described as a "Brighton legend, the soul of the team" by boss Roberto De Zerbi - popped up with a stoppage-time equaliser to mark his 400th league appearance for the club.

He rarely gets the plaudits or headlines that some of Brighton's flair players enjoy but his importance will never be underplayed by those closest to the club.

His goal - a trademark booming header - got his team-mates out of jail a bit as, not for the first time, they had failed to make their supremacy over a weaker opponent show in the scoreline.

But a point is better than nothing as the Seagulls bid to secure European football at the Amex for a second successive season.

They do, however, need their injury issues to clear up, with Kaoru Mitoma's back problem forcing him to miss this game and robbing De Zerbi of yet another creative outlet.

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Brighton defender Lewis Dunk after capping his 400th league appearance for the club with a stoppage-time leveller against Everton: "Mixed emotions – we are frustrated not to win.

"I think we dominated the game, I don’t know what they had other than the goal? T (Tariq Lamptey) cleared one off the line but that was probably their two chances.

"Against them, defending set-pieces is tough, that’s what they are good at but we have to kill games off when we are dominating them and we’ve been speaking about that for a while now.

"That’s the next step we have to make but the character we showed when going down to 10 men was outstanding and to come back and get a draw was massive.

"I said after the win at Sheffield United that we had a massive six, seven, eight games coming up that could define our season and hopefully today was a massive point."

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Brighton boss Roberto De Zerbi to BBC Match of the Day after his 10-man Seagulls rescued a stoppage-time draw against relegation-battling Everton: "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."

• Brighton are unbeaten in their last 11 Premier League home games (W5 D6), only losing once in their last 15 at the American Express Stadium (W7 D7) despite keeping just one clean sheet in that time (0-0 against Wolves in January).

• Everton are unbeaten in their last four Premier League away games against Brighton W2 D2), scoring eight goals and conceding just two.

• Lewis Dunk’s 95th minute goal for Brighton was the latest equaliser Everton have conceded in a Premier League away game since John Terry made it 3-3 in the 98th minute for Chelsea in January 2016.

• Brighton have both scored and conceded in 21 of their 26 Premier League games this season, more than any other side in the competition.

• Brighton’s Pascal Gross has either scored or assisted a goal in each of his last four Premier League games. The German created six chances today – only against Watford in February 2019 has he created more in a home game in the competition (10).

• Everton’s Jarrod Branthwaite has scored two goals in his last four Premier League games, one more than in all of his previous 29 matches in the competition combined (1).

Lewis Dunk's stoppage-time header condemned Everton to another Premier League draw as 10-man Brighton salvaged a point at Amex Stadium.

Both goals came from central defenders as Dunk headed home Pascal Gross' cross five minutes into time added on to cancel out Jarrad Branthwaite's superb opener.

Branthwaite had produced a forward's finish to break the deadlock, arrowing a first-time shot into the top corner from 15 yards when a free-kick fell at his feet.

It seemed Everton were on course for a vital victory in their battle to avoid relegation when Brighton's Billy Gilmour was then sent off for a studs-up lunge on Amadou Onana's ankle.

But Dunk's header extended the Toffees' winless league run to nine games and they sit just a point above the relegation zone, having played a match more than 18th-placed Luton.

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BBC pundit Chris Sutton is making predictions for all 380 Premier League matches again this season, against a variety of guests.

For this weekend's games, he takes on former England striker Jermain Defoe.

Sutton's prediction: 1-2

This was the game at the end of last season where Everton absolutely demolished Brighton. Sean Dyche's side were brilliant that night, and their win went a long way towards keeping them up.

Everton are badly in need of a repeat of that result this time, too. Although they have drawn three of their past four games, they haven't won in the Premier League since 16 December.

Brighton have been back in the goals recently after a spell at the start of the year where they could not score, but I am going to back Everton to nick this one.

They will have the same gameplan they used when they beat the Seagulls in May, which is to defend deep and counter-attack quickly. If it works again, they will win.

Jermain's prediction: 3-1

Read all of Sutton's predictions for this weekend's games