Comments and predictions for Southampton vs Brighton: Rain of goals

The battle for glory on the south coast continues on Saturday afternoon, when struggling Premier League side Southampton host Brighton & Hove Albion at St Mary's.

The Saints edged closer to a return to the Championship after a 3-1 defeat to Bournemouth last weekend, while the Seagulls enjoyed a 3-0 win over Chelsea on Valentine's Day.

Latest Southampton vs Brighton team information

Southampton manager Juric delivered some good injury news at his press conference on Thursday, confirming that Flynn Downes and Jack Stephens are fit and available for the Brighton game.

However, Adam Lallana (hamstring) and Taylor Harwood-Bellis (ankle) remain sidelined, while Ryan Fraser (unspecified injury) and Ross Stewart (calf) are also on treatment.

After combining for a consolation goal in the defeat to Bournemouth, Sulemana and Paul Onuachu – who has been involved in three goals in his last four Premier League games – are likely to continue to start, ahead of young talent Tyler Dibling.

As for Brighton, manager Hurzeler is worried about the fitness of three players ahead of the weekend's match, including Lewis Dunk (ribs), Solly March (fitness) and Pervis Estupinan (unspecified injury), all of whom are being monitored.

Brighton's four long-term absentees are Jason Steele (shoulder), James Milner (thigh), Igor Julio (thigh) and Ferdi Kadioglu (toe). However, after their dominant win over Chelsea, their manager is unlikely to make too many changes to the squad.

Minteh shone with a brace despite being pushed into his preferred left wing-back role, and the 20-year-old could continue in that position, while Georginio Rutter, Mitoma and Welbeck will lead the attack.

Latest predicted lineup Southampton vs Brighton

Southampton:

Ramsdale; Bree, Bednarek, Stephens; Sugawara, Aribo, Ugochukwu, Walker-Peters; Fernandes; Sulemana, Onuachu

Brighton & Hove Albion:

Verbruggen; Minteh, Van Hecke, Webster, Veltman, Lamptey; Rutter, Baleba, Hinshelwood, Mitoma; Welbeck

Latest Southampton vs Brighton football commentary

Beating relegation rivals Ipswich Town on February 1 was not the turning point for Ivan Juric’s Southampton, who are still on a one-way road back to the First Division after suffering their 20th Premier League defeat of the season.

Burnley's FA Cup exit sapped any momentum from their win over Ipswich, and Southampton were again the victim of a fine performance from Ryan Christie at the weekend. The Bournemouth midfielder provided a delicate assist for Dango Ouattara to head in the opener before firing home an impressive 20-yard strike himself.

Kamaldeen Sulemana's fine strike gave Southampton some hope as Bournemouth looked to be slipping, but the Cherries quickly regained their two-goal lead through Marcus Tavernier. The result left Southampton 10 points adrift of safety in the Premier League.

To say that the fans at St Mary’s won’t be having much fun in 2024-25 is an understatement. The club have now lost a shocking seven consecutive Premier League home games – only three teams have lost more (eight in a row), most recently Watford in 2021-22.

Southampton’s problem isn’t getting ahead, it’s not holding on to it. They’ve dropped 20 points from games when they’ve led – the second worst return in the Premier League this season, behind only Tottenham Hotspur (21).

That disappointing statistic does not bode well for Southampton as they face a Brighton side that always knows how to bounce back. They came from behind to beat Chelsea in the fourth round of the FA Cup, before repeating the same scenario with a bigger win when Chelsea visit them on February 14.

Kaoru Mitoma got Brighton's goal feast started with a classy finish and work. Yankuba Minteh and Danny Welbeck then took centre stage, with Minteh scoring twice from two Welbeck assists. The win ended Brighton's run of two consecutive Premier League defeats.

Seemingly regaining confidence after a heavy 0-7 defeat to Nottingham Forest earlier this month, Fabian Hurzeler's side have continued to consolidate their position in the top 10, currently 10th in the table, six points behind Chelsea – the team that just fell victim to them.

However, Brighton tend to do well against top teams, but often struggle against the bottom. They have won 46% of their games against top 10 teams, but only 25% of their games against teams in the bottom half.

Brighton's struggles against weaker teams were highlighted by a 1-1 draw at Southampton in November. However, that draw still extended their unbeaten run against Southampton to six games since a 2-1 home defeat in December 2020, when Danny Ings scored the winner from the penalty spot.

Latest Southampton vs Brighton score prediction

Based on the above football comments, we and the world's leading football sites have given the following results for the Southampton vs Brighton match:

• Sportsmole: Southampton 0-2 Brighton

• WhoScore: Southampton 1-3 Brighton
• Our prediction: Southampton 0-3 Brighton

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