Brighton & Hove Albion and Chelsea will lock horns for the second time in six days on Friday evening when the pair meet within the Premier League.
The Seagulls have been victorious in final weekend’s FA Cup fourth-round duel, with Kaoru Mitoma scoring the successful aim to pile extra distress on the Blues. Enzo Maresca’s aspect have now gained simply three of their final ten matches in all competitions, none of which have come away from the consolation of Stamford Bridge.
Regardless of their current frustrations, Chelsea did climb as much as fourth within the Premier League desk once they beat West Ham United of their most up-to-date league fixture. Victory on the south coast will assure they keep there for an additional week.
Brighton will likely be hoping to take in the adoration of the house crowd on Valentine’s Day, aiming to get well from successive Premier League defeats – together with the 7-0 humiliation at Nottingham Forest. Ought to they safe all three factors on Friday, they’d transfer into eighth forward of the weekend’s fixtures.
Right here is 90min’s information to the conflict.
Brighton vs Chelsea H2H file (final 5 video games)
Present kind (all competitions)
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Brighton |
Chelsea |
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Brighton 2-1 Chelsea – 08/02/25 |
Brighton 2-1 Chelsea – 08/02/25 |
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Nottingham Forest 7-0 Brighton – 01/02/25 |
Chelsea 2-1 West Ham – 03/02/25 |
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Brighton 0-1 Everton – 25/01/25 |
Man Metropolis 3-1 Chelsea – 25/01/25 |
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Man Utd 1-3 Brighton – 19/01/25 |
Chelsea 3-1 Wolves – 20/01/25 |
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Ipswich 0-2 Brighton – 16/01/25 |
Chelsea 2-2 Bournemouth – 14/01/25 |
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Nation |
TV channel/dwell stream |
|---|---|
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United Kingdom |
Sky Sports activities Primary Occasion, Sky Sports activities Premier League, Sky Extremely HD, Sky GO, Sky GO Additional, NOW TV |
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United States |
fuboTV, nbcsports.com, NBC Sports activities App, UNIVERSO NOW, Telemundo Deportes En Vivo, USA Community, UNIVERSO |
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Canada |
fuboTV Canada, Fubo Sports activities Community Canada |
Brighton are sweating on the health of integral centre-back Lewis Dunk forward of Chelsea’s return to the Amex Stadium, with the defender struggling a rib damage in final weekend’s FA Cup duel. He is a doubt for Friday.
Mats Wieffer may return from damage towards the Blues, nonetheless, having been lacking since earlier than Christmas with a thigh damage.
The quintet of Jason Steele, Pervis Estupinan, Ferdi Kadioglu, Igor and James Milner are all anticipated to overlook out.
Brighton predicted lineup vs Chelsea (4-2-3-1): Verbruggen; Veltman, Van Hecke, Webster, Lamptey; Baleba, Ayari; Minteh, Rutter, Mitoma; Pedro.
Chelsea have been dealt a big damage blow with Nicolas Jackson anticipated to be absent till after the March worldwide break with a hamstring damage. Fellow ahead Marc Guiu can also be lacking for the foreseeable future after struggling the identical difficulty because the Senegal worldwide.
The Blues are already with out Mykhailo Mudryk of their ahead line after he failed a medication check and was subsequently suspended, whereas Romeo Lavia, Benoit Badiashile and Wesley Fofana are all absent within the defensive half of the pitch.
Robert Sanchez, Marc Cucurella and Moises Caicedo all returned to the Amex Stadium final Saturday and the latter two ought to begin once more this Friday. Nevertheless, Filip Jorgensen may return between the sticks.
Chelsea predicted lineup vs Brighton (4-2-3-1): Jorgensen; James, Tosin, Colwill, Cucurella; Caicedo, Fernandez; Neto, Palmer, Sancho; Nkunku.
Chelsea underwhelmed of their conflict with Brighton final weekend and appeared alarmingly toothless in defeat on the south coast. With Jackson and Guiu each caught within the therapy room for the approaching weeks, issues are unlikely to enhance drastically for Maresca’s males.
Brighton have been inconsistent beneath Fabian Hurzeler however confirmed their high quality towards Chelsea final outing and will likely be eager to construct on a much-needed confidence enhance. They’ve the attacking high quality to punish a leaky Blues backline and will safe the very same scoreline that noticed them progress to the FA Cup fifth spherical.
