How to watch Brighton v Chelsea, team news, predicted line-ups and more

Predicted line-ups

Brighton (4-2-3-1): Verbruggen; Wieffer, van Hecke, Dunk, Kadioglu; Ayari, Gross; Minteh, Hinshelwood, Rutter; Welbeck

Chelsea (4-2-3-1): Sanchez; Gusto, Fofana, Chalobah, Cucurella; Santos, Caicedo; Palmer, Fernandez, Neto; Joao Pedro

Recent form

Brighton are one of the form teams in the Premier League, having only lost one of their last seven games and winning five in the process.

Their last outing was away at relegation-threatened Tottenham Hotspur, with a last-gasp Georginio Rutter goal securing a point for Fabian Hürzeler’s side.

In contrast, Chelsea’s poor run of form has made securing Champions League qualification an uphill battle, and they now trail fifth place Liverpool by seven points.

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Liam Rosenior’s side have lost four straight league games without scoring a goal and also lost their last meeting with Brighton, a 3-1 home loss in the reverse fixture earlier this season.

What’s been said?

Brighton manager Fabian Hurzeler said: “They (Chelsea) have the quality to beat every team in the league. They are not on the best run but, like you mentioned, they play good football and they had a good performance. That’s why it’s very important for us to keep doing the basic things right, to keep doing our things on the highest level and to the highest standards – I think this will be the main bit against Chelsea.

“We have to play intensely again, you have to play with a lot of power and energy if you want to compete with them. On top of that, we need to stick to our style of play, to our principles. We also have a big belief that we can beat them, although we know that they have a lot of individual quality and showed good performances recently.”

Chelsea manager Liam Rosenior said: “Being respectfully honest, we haven’t done well enough in recent games. That needs to change and that’s on my shoulders as the head coach.

“We have to make sure we train very well, which we have done today, and we go down to Brighton, where the only focus has to be on winning this game of football.”

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