Premier League: Manchester City vs Brighton & Hove Albion: Host’s look to hold onto top spot (Oct 31)
Manchester City host Brighton & Hove Albion looking to bounce back from their defeat to Aston Villa.
Brighton are also looking to come back from defeat, having lost 2-0 to Liverpool last weekend.
Odds
| Match Result | Odds |
| Manchester City | 2/3 |
| Brighton | 18/5 |
| Draw | 10/3 |
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Head-to-Head
| Total | Man City | Brighton | Draw | |
| Games | 19 | 13 | 3 | 3 |
| Goals | 60 | 45 | 15 |
For the most part, it has been all Manchester City in this fixture, with the Cityzens winning 13 of their meetings since 2017.
Brighton last beat Manchester City in last season, with James Milner and Brajan Gruda scoring for the Seagulls.
The last Premier Lague meeting ended in a 1-1 draw, Erling Haaland scoring for Manchester City and Kaoru Mitoma for Brighton.
Key Statistics
- Manchester City are unbeaten in their last 10 home meetings with Brighton.
- Brighton have kept five Premier League clean sheets this season, the most of any team in the league.
- Manchester City have won four of their five Premier League home games this season.
- Brighton’s Pascal Gross ranks first in the league for big chances created.
- Manchester City’s Erling Haaland has scored nine goals in his first eight Premier League games of the season.
Manchester City Team News
Enzo Maresca’s side are in a good place to bounce back from their last league defeat, with just two players out injured.
Matheus Nunes and Antoine Semenyo will both miss out through injury.
Possible Lineup
Gianluigi Donnarumma (GK), Josko Gvardiol, Ruben Dias, Marc Guehi, Abdukodir Khusanov, Enzo Fernandez, Elliot Anderson, Iliman Ndiaye, Rayan Cherki, Jeremy Doku, Erling Haaland
Brighton & Hove Albion Team News
Brighton may be up to third in the league, but they are facing somewhat on an injury crisis. Fabian Hurzeler will be without nine players for this game.
Ferdi Kadioglu, Mats Wieffer, Pascal Struijk, Evan Ferguson, Femi Azeez, Kaoru Mitoma, Stefanos Tzimas, Yakuba Minteh and Zadack Yohana are all out injured.
Possible Lineup
Bart Verbruggen (GK), Jaouen Hadjam, Luka Kuskovic, Lewis Dunk, Olivier Boscagli, Pascal Gross, Chema Andreas, Diego Gomez, Yasin Ayari, Maxim De Cuyper, Charalampos Kostoulas
Manchester City vs Brighton & Hove Albion Picks
Manchester City were roundly beaten by Aston Villa last week and will head into this game looking for blood, which is a bad case for Brighton.
The Seagulls have been well worth their 3rd place position this season but their bubble burst against Liverpool and I can only see it carry on in one direction this week, with another loss.
Other markets include Erling Haaland to score two or more goals, Iliman Ndiaye to have two or more shots on target and Pascal Gross to complete more than 80% of his passes.
