Leeds United vs Brighton & Hove Albion - prediction, team news, lineups

Brighton & Hove Albion tin support their Champions League hopes live with a triumph against hosts Leeds United astatine Elland Road successful the Premier League connected Sunday.

The Seagulls are seventh with 53 points with six to play for, but they indispensable beryllium acceptable to situation for sixth arsenic that could beryllium capable for a spot successful the Champions League, whereas 14th-placed Leeds cognize they are harmless with 44 points.

Match preview

Leeds person enjoyed a singular play nether brag Daniel Farke, who has already secured a amended points tally than the nine managed successful their anterior 2 top-flight campaigns (31 and 38).

The Whites had to flooded a hard commencement to 2025-26, with the nine losing eight, drafting 2 and winning conscionable 3 of their opening 13 fixtures, but they person since lone been defeated successful 4 retired of 23 league matches.

Farke's players volition anticipation to widen their unbeaten streak successful the league to 9 games connected Sunday, and a triumph for the squad would beryllium their 4th successful six matches.

Leeds impressively netted 11 goals successful their past 5 top-flight contests portion lone conceding 5 times, though they were arguably fortunate to lone concede erstwhile once they drew 1-1 with Tottenham Hotspur connected May 11.

Elland Road has not witnessed a location nonaccomplishment successful 3 matches astatine the ground, with the hosts winning their past 2 by a cumulative people of 6-1.

Sunday is an accidental for Leeds to nonstop revenge for the 3-0 nonaccomplishment they suffered against Brighton successful November 2025, but the squad volition person to defy their caller past against the Seagulls if they are to triumph against them for the archetypal clip successful 8 meetings.

Brighton could inactive decorativeness successful the apical 5 considering they are six points from some fifth-placed Aston Villa and fourth-placed Liverpool, who play each different connected Friday, but a much realistic people for the nine should beryllium overtaking Bournemouth successful sixth.

The Cherries are lone 2 points up and volition person to look Manchester City connected Tuesday, and finishing sixth would beryllium capable for Champions League shot if Villa triumph the Europa League and decorativeness fifth.

Fabian Hurzeler deserves immense recognition for changing the communicative surrounding his presumption successful the dugout, arsenic portion the Seagulls took six points betwixt matchweek 14 and matchweek 26, his squad person collected 22 points from a imaginable 30 implicit their consequent 10 league matches.

Brighton person successful information triumphed successful 4 of their past six top-flight fixtures, with the broadside losing conscionable once, scoring astatine slightest 2 goals 4 times and keeping 3 cleanable sheets.

Hurzeler oversaw a 3-0 triumph against Wolverhampton Wanderers connected May 9, but helium was not truthful fortunate erstwhile his squad past travelled fixed they were beaten 3-1 by Newcastle United astatine St. James' Park connected May 2.

That decision extended Brighton's winless streak distant from location to 2 games - they settled for a 2-2 gully astatine Tottenham Hotspur connected April 18 - but the visitors were triumphant successful their anterior 3 clashes connected the road.

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Team News

In what volition beryllium their last location game, Leeds volition privation to observe achieving Premier League survival, truthful determination is nary crushed to deliberation that striker Dominic Calvert-Lewin volition not commencement up front.

However, Farke has confirmed that Ethan Ampadu is simply a large uncertainty owed to illness, and losing him from midfield could beryllium significant.

If helium is incapable to beryllium portion of the squad this weekend, Anton Stach and Ao Tanaka whitethorn alternatively beryllium partnered by Sean Longstaff.

As for Brighton, stalwarts Lewis Dunk and Jan Paul van Hecke tin beryllium pencilled into the XI astatine centre-back, with the brace acceptable to marque their 30th and 35th league starts respectively.

Despite the speculation astir the aboriginal of midfielder Carlos Baleba, helium could inactive beryllium utile successful the last agelong of the season, truthful helium could beryllium stationed successful a treble pivot adjacent to Pascal Gross.

Winger Kaoru Mitoma has been ruled out, and Hurzeler has indicated determination is simply a accidental that helium could miss retired connected the World Cup, but Ferdi Kadioglu and Yankuba Minteh volition apt diagnostic connected Sunday, though Maxim De Cuyper could beryllium an enactment connected the near flank.

Leeds United imaginable starting lineup:

Darlow; Rodon, Bijol, Bornauw; Gnonto, Stach, Longstaff, Tanaka, Justin; Calvert-Lewin, Nmecha

Brighton & Hove Albion imaginable starting lineup:

Verbruggen; Veltman, Van Hecke, Dunk, De Cuyper; Baleba, Gross; Kadioglu, Hinshelwood, Minteh; Welbeck

We say: Leeds United 1-2 Brighton & Hove Albion

Though Leeds person already secured survival, fans would consciousness fto down if the squad did not astatine slightest effort their champion to extremity their location run strongly.

However, they volition beryllium encountering a Brighton broadside successful fantabulous form, and it would not beryllium astonishing if the visitors walked distant with 3 points successful their quest for Champions League football.

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