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title: "Virals: Tweet underlines Mason Holgate’s crucial defending for Everton"
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author: "Alex Jones"
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published: "2021-08-29T10:30:00Z"
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# Virals: Tweet underlines Mason Holgate’s crucial defending for Everton

Stats shared on social media has highlighted the impactful performance of Mason Holgate in [Everton’s](https://readeverton.com/2021/08/28/virals-andros-townsend-comments-on-everton-deal-for-demarai-gray/) 2-0 victory over Brighton.

The Toffees secured all three points and a clean sheet against the south coast side thanks to a driven Demarai Gray strike and a second-half penalty from Dominic Calvert-Lewin.

Whilst attention will have been duly paid to Everton’s goalscoring escapades, Everton’s first clean sheet of the season was a testament to the club’s fine defensive work against Brighton.

As shared in a Twitter post by footballing app Pitch Football (@PitchFooty), Mason Holgate was a standout performer that went under the radar as a vital cog in the Toffees’ defensive machine.

Described as putting in a ‘commanding display’, the Doncaster-born defender won the most aerial duels (5) and made the most clearances (4) and interceptions (4) of any player on the pitch.

> Twitter: ![?](https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.1.0/svg/1f44f.svg) Mason Holgate’s stats for Everton against Brighton…
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> ![?](https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.1.0/svg/1f947.svg) ???? aerials won (?)\
> ![?](https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.1.0/svg/1f947.svg) ???? clearances (?)\
> ![?](https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.1.0/svg/1f947.svg) ???? interc… https://t.co/pOoy2yrDWi (@PitchFooty)

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Such a standout individual performance and his role in keeping a subsequent clean sheet will go a long way in boosting his place in the mind of Rafa Benitez.

He has already [started in two](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/mason-holgate/profil/spieler/348623) of Everton’s three league games this season in a sign of increasing trust being placed in him by the Toffees’ Spanish tactician.

The[6-cap](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/mason-holgate/profil/spieler/348623)England under-21 international also started in Everton’s 2-1 win over Huddersfield Town – game that saw new Toffees signing Andros Townsend get off the mark for the club.

Consequentially, there is a mounting case to suggest that Holgate could be cementing his place as a nailed-on starter under Benitez, and such statistics in the league will do no harm to Holgate’s case.