Coventry City vs Brighton & Hove Albion - prediction, team news, lineups

Tenth and 20th quadrate disconnected successful Sunday's Premier League tussle astatine the CBS Arena, wherever basement boys Coventry City big mid-table Brighton & Hove Albion astatine 2pm.

Frank Lampard's men stay winless and goalless aft their 1-0 nonaccomplishment to Manchester City, portion the Seagulls drew 1-1 with Leeds United successful gameweek three.

Match preview

Now 1 of conscionable 2 Premier League sides inactive waiting to cod their archetypal Premier League constituent of the play - alongside established top-flight broadside Fulham - Coventry person a 107-year nine worst to debar connected location ungraded this weekend.

Only successful the 1919-20 play - which conscionable truthful happened to beryllium their archetypal run successful the English Football League - person Coventry started a word with 4 consecutive losses, but the CBS faithful ought to person near the Etihad past play with a renewed consciousness of optimism.

Erling Haaland's header settled the matchweek 3 clash successful Man City's favour, but Lampard's broadside forced Gianluigi Donnarumma into a fistful of beardown saves, portion besides astir forcing the Italy planetary into a calamitous ain goal.

However, astir moments bash not enactment points connected the committee for Coventry, who are besides inactive searching for their archetypal cleanable expanse of the play successful immoderate tourney aft getting the amended of Plymouth Argyle 4-2 successful the EFL Cup 2nd round.

The omens are not disastrous for the location side, though, arsenic the lone squad to ever suffer each of their archetypal 4 Premier League games of a play without scoring - the 2017-18 Crystal Palace harvest - finished comfortably successful mid-table successful 11th place.

Currently smack-bang successful the mediate of the Premier League standings, Brighton's early-season results person been thing but a mixed bag, with 1 win, 1 nonaccomplishment and 1 gully connected their grounds heading into gameweek four.

Following the chaos of their opening 4-0 crushing of Aston Villa and 4-3 reverse to Chelsea - either broadside of a 4-0 Conference League Qualifying triumph implicit Tromso - Brighton and Leeds United played retired a much low-key matter connected September 5, erstwhile Jayden Bogle's opener was cancelled retired by antiaircraft extremity instrumentality Luka Vuskovic.

The centre-back's header - already his 18th elder vocation nine extremity astatine the property of conscionable 19 - ensured that the Seagulls would conscionable astir cling onto a top-half spot successful the table, supra Manchester United and Sunderland courtesy of a superior extremity difference.

The Red Devils await Brighton adjacent week successful the EFL Cup, but Fabian Hurzeler's contiguous interest is reversing a worrying roadworthy trend, arsenic the visitors person been beaten successful each of their past 3 Premier League distant fixtures.

Not since the pre-lockdown days of 2019 person Brighton mislaid 4 consecutive top-flight distant matches, though, and the Seagulls eased to a 3-1 triumph during their astir caller conflict with Coventry successful the 2017-18 FA Cup.

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Team News

The Coventry squad volition beryllium marginally strengthened for the sojourn of Brighton, arsenic on-loan Man City defender Stephen Mfuni is disposable erstwhile more, having been ineligible to look his genitor nine past weekend.

However, Haji Wright (thigh), Kaine Kesler-Hayden (thigh), Josh Eccles (unspecified) and Luke Woolfenden (knee) volition not instrumentality for weeks, portion caller signing Sidiki Cherif is inactive gathering up his lucifer fittingness and was not successful the squad astatine the Etihad.

Substitutes Loum Tchaouna and Ellis Simms wasted glorious chances to level matters astatine Man City, and Lampard should instrumentality with the trio of Ephron Mason-Clark, Jack Rudoni and Taiwo Awoniyi from the archetypal whistle.

Brighton's aesculapian squad person been kept engaged successful the aboriginal knockings of the season, arsenic each of Yankuba Minteh (calf), Kaoru Mitoma (thigh), Jack Hinshelwood (unspecified), Mats Wieffer (knee), Stefanos Tzimas (knee), Evan Ferguson (ankle) and Zadok Yohanna (unspecified) are inactive sidelined.

In brighter news, Hurzeler has confirmed that Femi Azeez (thigh) and Georginio Rutter (ankle) mightiness beryllium involved, while Michael Svoboda's genu occupation could settee down successful clip for him to marque the squad too.

Still putting successful the hard yards successful an auxiliary left-wing position, Maxim De Cuyper has played 29 passes into the container and made 7 palmy crosses successful the 2026-27 Premier League, some 2nd lone to Bruno Fernandes.

Coventry City imaginable starting lineup:

Rushworth; Amenda, Thomas, Pinnock; Van Ewijk, Grimes, Onyeka, Dasilva; Rudoni, Mason-Clark; Awoniyi

Brighton & Hove Albion imaginable starting lineup:

Verbruggen; Kadioglu, Dunk, Vuskovic, Boscagli; Gross, Ayari; Gomez, Yalcouye, De Cuyper; Kostoulas

We say: Coventry City 1-2 Brighton & Hove Albion

The elusive archetypal Premier League extremity is undoubtedly coming for Coventry, but unluckily for them, they are present facing the nine with the highest xG successful the apical formation truthful acold this play - a whopping 7.4.

Therefore, adjacent though Brighton are operating connected reduced numbers and bash not ever person defensively, Hurzeler's broadside person the firepower required to triumph connected their travels.

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