Comments and predictions for Brighton vs Arsenal: Bombard the home team
The match between Brighton vs Arsenal in the Premier League takes place at 0:30 on January 5. Nghe An Newspaper analyzes performance, makes football comments and predicts the score.
Arsenal will travel away from London for the first time in 10 games to face Brighton & Hove Albion in a Premier League clash this Saturday night.
Mikel Arteta and his players started the new year impressively with a 3-1 win over Brentford, just days after Brighton made a brilliant comeback to draw 2-2 with Aston Villa.
Latest Brighton vs Arsenal team information
The one negative point in Arsenal's midweek win was a yellow card suspension for Jurrien Timber, leaving the team without a real right-back as Ben White and Takehiro Tomiyasu are recovering from knee injuries.
Unless Arteta makes a surprise switch to 18-year-old Joshua Nichols, Thomas Partey will continue at right-back, opening the door for Rice or Kai Havertz – who missed the win over Brentford through illness – to return to midfield.
With Bukayo Saka (hamstring) and Raheem Sterling (knee) both out for treatment, Arteta handed Ethan Nwaneri his Premier League debut against Brentford, but there could be a change for the 17-year-old in the short term.
While Arsenal have struggled at the back, Brighton manager Hurzeler is hopeful Pervis Estupinan will be fit to face Arsenal after missing the Villa game due to illness.
Adam Webster also has a slim chance of returning from a hamstring injury that has kept him out for 13 games, while Jack Hinshelwood (knee) is also close to returning. However, Danny Welbeck (ankle), Mats Wieffer (foot), Evan Ferguson (ankle), James Milner (hamstring) and Ferdi Kadioglu (toe) will not be available.
As the January transfer window opens, Diego Gomez's £11m move from Inter Miami has also been confirmed, but the midfielder will not be involved in this weekend's game.
Latest expected lineup for Brighton vs Arsenal
Brighton & Hove Albion:
Verbruggen; Lamptey, Dunk, Van Hecke, Estupinan; Baleba, O'Riley; Adingra, Rutter, Mitoma; Pedro
Arsenal:
Raya; Partey, Saliba, Gabriel, Lewis-Skelly; Odegaard, Rice, Merino; Martinelli, Jesus, Trossard
Latest Brighton vs Arsenal football commentary
Arsenal finished 2024 in fine form, picking up 85 Premier League points – more than any other team in the past year. Mikel Arteta’s side continued their impressive form at the start of the new year with a 3-1 win over Brentford to secure their first three points of 2025.
Despite struggling a bit with Bryan Mbeumo opening the scoring early, Gabriel Jesus equalised for Arsenal, before goals from Mikel Merino and Gabriel Martinelli secured a convincing win.
However, despite Arsenal maintaining an impressive winning streak, which includes three consecutive victories in the Premier League, they are still six points behind Liverpool at the top of the table, although Jurgen Klopp's side have a game in hand.
This will be Arsenal's first game outside London since November, when they beat Sporting Lisbon 5-1 in the Champions League. Their recent travels have largely been to the capital, with a run of nine consecutive games there the longest in their history.
On the other side of the pitch, Fabian Hurzeler’s Brighton & Hove Albion also ended 2024 with a 2-2 draw against Aston Villa. Despite some brilliant moments like Tariq Lamptey’s equaliser, the team have struggled to win, having gone seven games without a win. Brighton are currently in mid-table, five points behind Newcastle in the Europa League places.
Hurzeler is in danger of becoming the first manager since 1999 to draw 10 of his first 20 Premier League games. Arsenal have won both of their recent visits to the Amex, scoring at least three goals in each.
Brighton vs Arsenal score prediction
Based on the above football comments, we and the world's leading football sites have given the results of the match.Brighton vs Arsenalas follows:
- Sportsmole:Brighton 1-3 Arsenal
- WhoScore:Brighton 0-2 Arsenal
- Our newspaper predicts:Brighton 1-3 Arsenal
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