Preview: Brighton & Hove Albion vs. Brentford - prediction, team news, lineups

Brighton & Hove Albion invited Brentford to the Amex successful 1 of 2 games being played aft Boxing Day successful the Premier League.

Both are successful mediocre signifier aft superb starts enactment them successful European contention, with conscionable 1 triumph betwixt them successful their past 5 each.

Match preview

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An fantabulous commencement nether Fabian Hurzeler had Brighton fans dreaming of a instrumentality to Europe aft conscionable 1 play away.

However, things person turned sour beauteous quickly, with the Seagulls present connected a five-game winless run, which included a humbling 3-1 decision astatine location to rivals Crystal Palace.

Despite taking the pb against some Leicester City and West Ham United precocious too, they could lone negociate a gully successful both, seeing them fall to 10th.

Brighton are inactive lone six points disconnected the apical 4 though, and 2 down Manchester City successful the last European place, with signifier present helping them to a good start.

The Palace decision was their archetypal of the play astatine the Amex astatine the eighth attempt, and they present look a squad they are inactive yet to suffer against astatine location successful 3 erstwhile Premier League meetings.

Tightening up defensively volition beryllium of large assistance to Hurzeler, particularly with Aston Villa and Arsenal connected the skyline aft this encounter.

Of Brighton's 20 matches this play successful each competition, 16 person seen some teams score, and the past 2 iterations of this fixture astatine the Amex person produced 9 goals.

A repetition could beryllium connected the cards, due to the fact that contempt being successful the bottommost half, Brentford are inactive 1 of the league's highest scorers.

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They were incapable to find the nett past play though, losing 2-0 astatine location to Nottingham Forest, the archetypal clip they person mislaid and not scored astatine location successful the Premier League this season.

The lone different occasions wherever Brentford had not recovered the nett successful a crippled this play were distant to Liverpool, and distant to Everton, wherever they played implicit fractional of the crippled with 10 men.

That has contributed to a tally of 4 defeats successful 5 games, with signifier rapidly unravelling for Thomas Frank's men, due to the fact that if location signifier starts to evade them, they person thing to autumn backmost connected distant from the Gtech.

Their solitary distant constituent is the lowest successful the PL this season, and lone Everton (10) person less distant points crossed the full of 2024 than Brentford's 11.

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Team News

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Brighton's Danny Welbeck is struggling to enactment fit, present having missed the past 2 games aft concisely returning successful the gully with Leicester.

Mats Wieffer picked up a sound soon aft scoring distant to West Ham past week and is simply a uncertainty for this one, but Jack Hinshelwood and Ferdi Kadioglu are some successful contention to instrumentality aft caller setbacks.

Matt O'Riley was backmost successful the squad past play but did not get connected to the pitch, portion Solly March has been successful afloat grooming recently, connected his agelong roadworthy to betterment from a superior genu injury.

Brentford's 9 absentees ranks arsenic 1 of the highest successful the league astatine present, with Frank making the bold assertion that helium could tract a "very beardown starting XI connected the sidelines".

Mads Roerslev should beryllium acceptable aft being forced disconnected precocious connected against Forest owed to a chopped connected his head, portion Sepp van den Berg is besides successful contention pursuing a groin issue.

Fellow defenders Kristoffer Ajer and Ethan Pinnock are some retired until 2025 though, joining Rico Henry, Aaron Hickey, Igor Thiago and Josh Dasilva connected the attraction table.

We say: Brighton & Hove Albion 2-2 Brentford

Brentford's dreadful distant signifier successful examination to stunning location results has been 1 of the astir peculiar phenomenons this season, but with the prime astatine their disposal, determination is nary crushed they cannot get thing here.

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