Brighton vs Manchester City Live Stream, Predictions

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Brighton & Hove Albion

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Brighton prepare for this game coming off the back of a 1-1 Premier League drawn match versus Burnley.

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

Brighton & Hove Albion have really struggled up front of late. Their ‘goals for’ figure equals just 4 against opposition teams during their previous 6 matches. In those games, Brighton & Hove Albion have also seen the tally of goals scored against them come to 6. That sort of trend isn’t assured to be carried forward into this game, though.

Manchester City

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Manchester City go into this meeting following on from a 1-0 FA Cup win vs Chelsea in their previous outing.

In that match, Manchester City had 62% possession and 14 attempts at goal with 3 on target. The scorer for Manchester City was Bernardo Silva (84'). Chelsea got 10 shots at goal with 5 on target.

The numbers tell their own story, and Manchester City have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, with opponents netting 8 goals in total. Defensively, Manchester City could really do with shoring things up.

↔️ Head to head

A glance at their prior head to head meetings going back to 18/05/2021 shows that Brighton have won 1 of them and Manchester City 4, with the tally of drawn games standing at 1.

There were also plenty of goals scored in those games, 22 in total at an average of 3.67 goals per meeting.

The last league fixture between these sides was Premier League match day 9 on 21/10/2023 and the score finished Manchester City 2-1 Brighton & Hove Albion.

In that match, Manchester City had 55% possession and 10 attempts at goal with 6 on target. Goals were scored by Julián Álvarez (7') and Erling Haaland (19').

For their opponents, Brighton & Hove Albion had 5 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. Ansu Fati (73') scored.

The match was refereed by Robert Jones.

📋 Team News: Brighton

Jack Hinshelwood (Foot surgery), Solly March (Knee injury) and Kaoru Mitoma (Back injury) are not available for Brighton manager Roberto De Zerbi.

It’s our opinion that The Seagulls should line up in a 4-2-3-1 system this time, handing starts to Bart Verbruggen, Joel Veltman, Jan Paul van Hecke, Lewis Dunk, Igor, Carlos Baleba, Pascal Gross, Facundo Buonanotte, Jakub Moder, Simon Adingra and Danny Welbeck.

ℹ️ Team News: Manchester City

Due to a completely injury-free group ready to go, the Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola does not have any fitness concerns to speak of before this match.

We’re of the thinking that The Citizens appear most likely to begin the game with a 4-1-4-1 lineup, settling for Ederson Moraes, Kyle Walker, John Stones, Ruben Dias, Josko Gvardiol, Rodri, Phil Foden, Kevin De Bruyne, Bernardo Silva, Jeremy Doku and Julian Alvarez.

💡 Prediction

We’ve got the feeling that Manchester City can have the majority of the possession and should turn some of their chances into goals.

In contrast, Brighton & Hove Albion may well find it hard to get goals of their own although we reckon that they could well end up scoring here as well.

We’re therefore expecting to see a fairly comfortable 1-3 winning score for Manchester City at full-time.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Lucas Pereira, 02:08 25/04/2024