Comments, predictions Brighton vs Fulham: Home team wins narrowly

Latest Brighton vs Fulham team information

Brighton are without Solly March, Adam Webster and Julio Enciso through knee injuries; Jack Hinshelwood (mild soreness) 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 with 11 goals last season – 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 “could play” despite his desire to join Atalanta – the Serie A club have made a £34m bid. 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 (five goals) – will play on the flanks alongside Alex Iwobi.

Latest predicted 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 lead the club back into European competition, settling for a respectable eighth place.

The Seagulls have spent over £60m on six new signings this summer, 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 linked with a big-money move to Manchester United.

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 are also in with reason to expect goals, having scored more Premier League goals (31) than any other side since a 7-0 defeat at Nottingham Forest in February. Only Manchester City (30) and Aston Villa (29) have picked up more points than Brighton (27 – W8 D3 L3) in that time.

Fulham are preparing for a fourth successive season in the Premier League and are aiming to 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 Raul Jimenez free-kick.

However, Silva has had a “passive” summer transfer window, with his only signing being reserve goalkeeper Benjamin Lecomte for £500,000. He admitted his squad was “very thin” and called for reinforcements before the September 1 deadline.

Fulham have won their opening game in just one of their 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.

Fulham have won 50% of their 10 Premier League meetings against Brighton (W5 D4 L1) – only Leicester City (58%) and Bolton Wanderers (55%) have a higher win rate when they have played 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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