Brighton vs West Ham prediction: ENGLAND: Premier League betting tips on match 2025-12-06 14:00.
[p]Brighton look to right the wrongs of a disappointing midweek defeat when they host a West Ham side who certainly won’t be relishing a trip to their least favourite opponents in Premier League history.[/p]
[p]Match News and Current Form[/p]
[p]Two goals to the good and cruising against Aston Villa in midweek, Brighton incredibly threw the game away to lose 4-3. Victory would’ve seen them come into this round inside the top four, but instead they start it two points adrift of the UEFA Champions League spots as they look to end their two-season hiatus from European football. A swift return to the AMEX Stadium seemingly offers the perfect chance to put things right as the Seagulls were unbeaten in ten home league games (W6, D4) before their midweek defeat to Villa and haven’t been beaten there by a London club in almost a year (W4, D4). [/p]
[p]Despite their squad now looking paper thin amid a host of selection issues, West Ham did a sterling job to battle from behind and leave Old Trafford with a point on Thursday night (1-1). It wasn’t enough to lift them out of the drop zone, but with the deficit standing at just two points pre-round, the Hammers remain firmly in touch with the sides above them. A five-match winless away league run offers little hope of improvement here (D3, L2), but encouragement can be found from a run of three successive wins in Sunday-held away league games though, as many as in their previous 27 such outings (D5, L19)![/p]
[p]Head-to-Head History[/p]
[p]West Ham have won just one of the 16 Premier League H2Hs (D8, L7). That 6% win rate is the Hammers’ lowest in Premier League history against any side they’ve faced more than twice.[/p]
[p]Hot Stats and Streaks[/p]
[p]Brighton have scored a pre-round league-high 17 second-half goals this season.[/p]
[p]Only one of Brighton’s last 13 league games stood goalless at half-time. [/p]
[p]West Ham have conceded first in a pre-round joint-league high 11 matches this season. [/p]
[p]Five of West Ham’s eight away league goals this campaign arrived after the 80th minute.[/p]
[p]Key Players to Watch and Missing Players[/p]
[p]Brighton’s Danny Welbeck has scored a joint-career high seven goals against West Ham, the last four of which arrived after the 80th minute. Only against Manchester United (4) has Alphonse Areola kept more career Premier League clean sheets than against Brighton (3), although he conceded eight goals across his last three away H2Hs. [/p]
[p]Stefanos Tzimas’ injury in midweek sees him join fellow attackers Kaoru Mitoma and Georginio Rutter in the Brighton treatment room. Crysencio Summerville has missed West Ham’s last three games.[/p]
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[p]Betting Analysis[/p]
[p]With West Ham’s squad looking depleted, we’re backing Brighton to win here.[/p]
[p][i]Author: Chris Wilson[/i][/p]