📊 Form Guide
Brighton & Hove Albion LLWDWW
Brighton will want to continue from where they left off last time out with the 0-2 Premier League victory against Nottingham Forest.
In that game, Brighton & Hove Albion managed 49% possession and 17 attempts at goal with 6 on target. For Brighton & Hove Albion, goals were scored by Maxim De Cuyper (45') and Stefanos Tzimas (88'). On the other side, Nottingham Forest had 19 shots on goal with 3 on target.
In their last 6 games, Fabian Hürzeler's Brighton & Hove Albion have hit the target 8 times, an average number of goals scored per match equal to 1.33.
Aston Villa LWWWWW 🔥
Aston Villa come into this encounter following a 1-0 Premier League win to defeat Wolverhampton Wanderers in their last game.
In that game, Aston Villa had 53% possession and 16 shots on goal with 6 on target. The scorer for Aston Villa was Boubacar Kamara (67'). On the other side, Wolverhampton Wanderers had 9 attempts on goal with 4 on target.
A sequence of hard-working showings by the Aston Villa defensive players has seen their ‘goals against’ tally amounting to 4 from their past 6 outings overall. During the same period, their own attack force has managed to score 11. We will just have to find out if that trend will end up being continued on in this game.
👥 Head to head
Inspecting their most recent head-to-head meetings going back to 13/11/2022 shows that Brighton have won 1 of them and Aston Villa 4, with the tally of drawn matches standing at 1.
21 goals were produced between them in this period, with 6 of them from The Seagulls and 15 for The Villans. The average number of goals per game works out to 3.5.
The last league game featuring these sides was Premier League match day 30 on 02/04/2025 when it ended Brighton & Hove Albion 0-3 Aston Villa.
On that day, Brighton & Hove Albion managed 55% possession and 11 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target.
Aston Villa had 8 shots at goal with 5 on target. Marcus Rashford (51'), Asensio (78') and Donyell Malen (100') scored.
The match was refereed by Stuart Attwell.
📰 Team News: Brighton
It seems likely that The Seagulls could use a 4-2-3-1 formation for this game with Bart Verbruggen, Mats Wieffer, Jan Paul van Hecke, Lewis Dunk, Ferdi Kadioglu, Carlos Baleba, Jack Hinshelwood, Yankuba Minteh, Brajan Gruda, Maxim De Cuyper and Danny Welbeck.
📋 Team News: Aston Villa
We believe The Villans seem most likely to elect for a 4-2-3-1 system, choosing Emiliano Martinez, Matty Cash, Ezri Konsa, Pau Torres, Lucas Digne, Boubacar Kamara, Amadou Onana, John McGinn, Youri Tielemans, Morgan Rogers and Ollie Watkins.
💭 Prediction
We’re thinking that Aston Villa will need to put in a solid display to break down this Brighton & Hove Albion lineup who we reckon will end up scoring and possibly keep a clean sheet as well.
Therefore, we predict a good battle with a 1-0 victory for Brighton & Hove Albion at full-time.
Let’s see how it plays out.
Renata Leite, 19:02 03/12/2025