For many, the 0-0 draw was viewed as two points dropped by Palace, but Mitchell was left happy with their defensive display.
He said, “Both teams wanted a win. When you want to win, that’s what comes out sometimes – the competitiveness.
“I think we have an understanding as a team from training sessions, and from all the matches we’ve played. We’ve played a lot of games this season.
“Jaydee (Canvot) slotted in. He’s a great young player, so we were confident. We know our triggers, we know when to press, when to stay. We work on that in training.
“Jaydee’s a great player so we knew going into the game how good (Brighton’s Yankuba) Minteh is, but we knew how good we are.
“We train hard. The manager (Oliver Glasner) implements his style on us very well in training, so every single player, whether you start or don’t start, we know what we need to do when we’re on the pitch.”