Comments and predictions for Southampton vs Brighton: Home team loses
The match between Southampton vs Brighton in the English Premier League takes place at 22:00 on February 22. Nghe An Newspaper analyzes performance, football commentary and predicts the score.
Latest Southampton vs Brighton team information
Positive news from Southampton boss Juric provides optimism ahead of the Brighton game: Flynn Downes and Jack Stephens are fully fit and available. Southampton, however, will still be without Adam Lallana (hamstring) and Taylor Harwood-Bellis (ankle), while Ryan Fraser (unspecified injury) and Ross Stewart (calf) are also on the mend.
After combining for the only goal against Bournemouth, Sulemana and Paul Onuachu, who has been involved in three goals in his last four Premier League games, are likely to continue to be relied upon, leaving young talent Tyler Dibling on the bench.
On the other side of the front line, Brighton manager Hurzeler is worried about the fitness of three key players, including Lewis Dunk (ribs), Solly March (fitness) and Pervis Estupinan (unspecified injury). The decision on the trio's ability to play will be made closer to the match. Brighton will still be without the services of Jason Steele (shoulder), James Milner (thigh), Igor Julio (thigh) and Ferdi Kadioglu (toe) due to long-term injuries.
However, with his impressive performance in the big win over Chelsea, it is unlikely that Hurzeler will make any major changes to his starting line-up. Minteh impressed with a brace despite playing out of position as a left wing-back, and the 20-year-old could be given another chance in that role. Meanwhile, Georginio Rutter, Mitoma and Welbeck are likely to lead Brighton's attack.
Latest predicted lineup Southampton vs Brighton
Southampton:
Ramsdale; Bree, Bednarek, Stephens; Sugawara, Aribo, Ugochukwu, Walker-Peters; Fernandes; Sulemana, Onuachu
Brighton & Hove Albion:
Verbruggen; Minteh, Van Hecke, Webster, Veltman, Lamptey; Rutter, Baleba, Hinshelwood, Mitoma; Welbeck
Latest Southampton vs Brighton football review
A hard-fought victory over relegation rivals Ipswich Town in early February failed to revive the fortunes of Ivan Juric’s Southampton, who are still struggling to return to the Championship after suffering their 20th Premier League defeat of the season.
The FA Cup defeat to Burnley extinguished any glimmer of hope that had been sparked by the win over Ipswich. Southampton were again the victims of a brilliant performance from Ryan Christie in the last round. The talented Bournemouth midfielder provided a classy assist for Dango Ouattara to open the scoring, before scoring a superb long-range shot from 20 metres.
Kamaldeen Sulemana's spectacular goal gave Southampton a glimmer of hope as Bournemouth began to falter. However, the Cherries quickly regained control of the game and restored a safe distance thanks to Marcus Tavernier's goal. This result pushed Southampton deeper into the bottom of the table, 10 points away from safety in the Premier League standings.
To say that the St Mary’s fans won’t be having much fun in 2024-25 is an understatement. The club are on a disastrous run of seven consecutive home defeats in the Premier League – only three teams in history have had a worse run (eight in a row), most recently Watford in 2021-22.
Southampton’s pain is not so much about taking the lead, but about losing it. They have squandered 20 points from games when they have taken the lead – the second worst tally in the Premier League this season, bettered only by Tottenham Hotspur (21).
With a series of dismal statistics, Southampton's chances against Brighton are even more slim. The opponent always shows an impressive ability to rise up, as evidenced by the comeback against Chelsea in the 4th round of the FA Cup. A similar scenario was convincingly recreated when Chelsea traveled to Brighton's field on February 14.
Kaoru Mitoma started Brighton's goal feast with a superb finish and was followed by Yankuba Minteh and Danny Welbeck, with Minteh netting twice from two exquisite Welbeck assists. The impressive win ended Brighton's two-game winless run in the Premier League.
Seemingly regaining confidence after the 0-7 defeat to Nottingham Forest earlier this month, Fabian Hurzeler's team continued to consolidate their position in the top 10 on the rankings, currently ranked 10th and only 6 points behind Chelsea, their recent "victim".
Brighton, however, have a fatal flaw: they thrive against top teams, but often struggle against lesser opponents. They have a 46% win rate against top 10 sides, but that drops to just 25% against teams in the bottom half of the table.
That was evident in the 1-1 draw with Southampton in November. However, the draw extended Brighton's unbeaten run against Southampton to six, since a 2-1 home defeat in December 2020, in which Danny Ings scored the decisive goal from the penalty spot.
Latest Southampton vs Brighton score prediction
Based on the above football comments, we and the world's leading football sites have given the results of the match.Southampton vs Brightonas follows:
- Sportsmole:Southampton 0-2 Brighton
- WhoScore:Southampton 1-3 Brighton
- Our newspaper predicts:Southampton 0-3 Brighton
When and where to watch Southampton vs Brighton live?
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