Comments and predictions for Southampton vs Brighton: Home team loses
The match between Southampton vs Brighton in the Premier League takes place at 22:00 on February 22. Nghe An Newspaper analyzes performance, makes football comments and predicts the score.
Latest Southampton vs Brighton team information
Positive news from Southampton manager 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 their last four Premier League games, are likely to continue to be relied upon, pushing young talent Tyler Dibling to 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 (rib), Solly March (fitness) and Pervis Estupinan (unspecified injury). The decision on the trio's ability to play will be made closer to the match time. 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 the starting lineup. Minteh impressed with a double despite playing in an off-field role 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 commentary
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 First Division 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. Last round, Southampton were again the victims of a brilliant performance from Ryan Christie. The talented Bournemouth midfielder provided a classy assist for Dango Ouattara to open the scoring, before himself creating a superb long-range shot from 20 metres.
Kamaldeen Sulemana's fine strike 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 to the bottom of the table, 10 points away from safety in the Premier League standings.
To say that the fans at St Mary’s won’t have much to cheer about 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 defeats in a row), most recently Watford in 2021-22.
Southampton’s pain isn’t 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 fragile. 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 finish. Yankuba Minteh and Danny Welbeck then took centre stage, 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 of the rankings, currently ranked 10th and only 6 points behind Chelsea, their recent "victim".
Brighton have a fatal flaw, however: they thrive against top teams, but often struggle against lesser opponents. They have a 46% win rate against top 10 teams, 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
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