Comments and predictions for Brighton vs Fulham: Home team wins narrowly
The match between Brighton vs Fulham in the Premier League takes place at 9:00 p.m. on August 16. Nghe An Newspaper analyzes performance, makes football comments and predicts the score.
Latest Brighton vs Fulham team information
Brighton are without Solly March, Adam Webster and Julio Enciso due to knee injuries; Jack Hinshelwood (mild niggle) and Baleba (knee) are doubtful. Hurzeler could hand his Premier League debut to attacking left-back Maxim De Cuyper in a back four, with captain Lewis Dunk, Jan Paul van Hecke and either Mats Wieffer or Tariq Lamptey on the right.
Kaoru Mitoma and Danny Welbeck – Brighton’s joint top scorer last season with 11 goals – are expected to start up front alongside Georgino Rutter and Yankuba Minteh. In midfield, Yasin Ayari and Diego Gomez could partner each other.
For Fulham, Antonee Robinson has not played a minute of pre-season due to knee surgery in May and remains absent. Ryan Sessegnon could start on the left wing despite being taken off early against Frankfurt for precautionary reasons.
Silva has confirmed that striker Rodrigo Muniz “can play” despite his desire to move to Atalanta – the Serie A club have made a £34m offer. Raul Jimenez is likely to start. Young talent Joshua King has impressed in pre-season and will compete with Emile Smith Rowe for the No. 10 spot. Harry Wilson – the team’s top scorer in pre-season (5 goals) – and Alex Iwobi will play on the flanks.
Latest expected lineup Brighton vs Fulham
Brighton & Hove Albion:
Verbruggen; Wieffer, Van Hecke, Dunk, De Cuyper; Ayari, Gomez; Minteh, Rutter, Mitoma; Welbeck
Fulham:
Leno; Tete, Andersen, Bassey, Sessegnon; Berge, Lukic; Wilson, Smith Rowe, Iwobi; Jimenez
Latest Brighton vs Fulham football review
Brighton were one of Europe's biggest spenders last summer, spending more than £200m on new players. However, the youngest manager in Premier League history, Fabian Hurzeler, was unable to get the club back into European competition, settling for a respectable eighth place.
This summer, the Seagulls have spent over £60m on six new signings, including Greek youngster Charalampos Kostoulas. However, they have lost key striker Joao Pedro to Chelsea and left-back Pervis Estupinan to AC Milan, while midfielder Carlos Baleba is still rumoured to be on his way to Manchester United for a big fee.
Hurzeler is confident Brighton “can compete with the big teams” this season. The club have had a positive pre-season, winning six and drawing one of their seven friendlies, including 2-0 and 2-1 home wins over Wolfsburg last weekend.
Brighton head into Saturday’s game against Fulham on the back of a four-season winning run in the Premier League – a club record and the longest such run in the competition. They have also been tipped to score, having scored more Premier League goals (31) than any other team since a 7-0 defeat to Nottingham Forest in February. Only Manchester City (30) and Aston Villa (29) have picked up more points in that time than Brighton (27 – W8 D3 L3).
Fulham are preparing for a fourth consecutive season in the Premier League and are targeting a return to the top 10 after finishing 11th last season with 54 points – their highest ever tally in the competition.
Marco Silva's side have won all three friendlies against Nottingham Forest, Al-Ittihad and Eintracht Frankfurt, with last weekend's 1-0 win over Frankfurt coming courtesy of a fine free-kick from Raul Jimenez.
However, Silva had a “passive” summer transfer window, with the only new signing being reserve goalkeeper Benjamin Lecomte for £500,000. He admitted his squad was “very thin” and called for additional personnel before the September 1 deadline.
Fulham have won their opening game in just one of the last eight seasons (D3 L4) – a 1-0 win over Everton in 2023-24. Silva believes both Fulham and Brighton “will be nervous” ahead of this opener.
Against Brighton, Fulham have won 50% of their 10 Premier League meetings (W5 D4 L1) – only Leicester City (58%) and Bolton Wanderers (55%) have a higher win percentage when playing at least 10 games. However, Fulham have won just one of their last seven away games against Brighton (D3 L3), most recently 1-0 in February 2023.
Latest Brighton vs Fulham 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 Fulhamas follows:
- Sportsmole:Brighton 2-1 Fulham
- WhoScore:Brighton 2-0 Fulham
- Our newspaper predicts:Brighton 2-1 Fulham
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