Bournemouth vs Brighton Live Stream, Predictions

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Bournemouth

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Bournemouth will be looking for a repeat result of the 0-1 Premier League success versus Wolverhampton Wanderers.

In that match, Bournemouth had 37% possession and 21 attempts on goal with 6 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Bournemouth was Antoine Semenyo (37'). For their opponents, Wolverhampton W. had 15 attempts on goal with 4 on target.

Bournemouth have been finding it hard to keep clean sheets of late, but they have also done enough to hit the back of the net themselves. Over their last 6 matches, Bournemouth have seen their goal breached in 5 of them in addition to getting on the scoresheet in 6 of those matches. With no two games being the same, we’ll just have to find out whether such a trend might persist in this game or not.

Brighton & Hove Albion

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In their last fixture, Brighton drew 1-1 in the Premier League match with Burnley.

In that match, Brighton & Hove Albion had 56% possession and 20 attempts at goal with 8 on target. For their opponents, Burnley had 11 shots at goal with 3 on target. Josh Brownhill (74') and Arijanet Murić (79' Own goal) scored for Burnley.

It has become apparent that Brighton have made hard work of scoring goals in their past 6 clashes, recording the disappointing return of just 4. In those matches, The Seagulls have also seen the collective goal aggregate against them equal 6.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Inspecting their most recent head to head meetings stretching back to 13/04/2019 shows us that Bournemouth have won 2 of these and Brighton 4, with the tally of drawn results being 0.

A combined sum of 18 goals were scored between them in these games, with 9 of them from The Cherries and 9 being from The Seagulls. That is an average goals per game value of 3.

The last league encounter between the two was Premier League match day 6 on 24/09/2023 which ended up with the score at Brighton & Hove Albion 3-1 Bournemouth.

On that day, Brighton & Hove Albion had 62% possession and 13 attempts on goal with 4 on target. The scorer was Kaoru Mitoma (46', 77').

On the other side, Bournemouth had 12 attempts on goal with 4 on target. Dominic Solanke (25') and Milos Kerkez (45' Own goal) scored.

The referee was John Brooks.

🗞️ Team News: Bournemouth

Lloyd Kelly (Hip injury), Ryan Fredericks (Calf injury) and Max Aarons (Hamstring injury) aren’t available for Bournemouth boss Andoni Iraola.

ℹ️ Team News: Brighton

Brighton manager Roberto De Zerbi has not got a full squad to pick from. Kaoru Mitoma (Back injury), Jack Hinshelwood (Foot surgery) and Solly March (Knee injury) can’t be considered.

💭 Prediction

We believe that Brighton & Hove Albion will manage to find the back of the net against this Bournemouth side, although that might not quite be enough to prevent defeat.

Our selection here is for a 2-1 win for Bournemouth after the 90. Looking forward to seeing how this one unfolds.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Andre Moura, 09:08 25/04/2024