*** Seagulls V Prem 21 Champions Official Match Thread***

[CTID Hants]

A clean sheet tonight and Ederson retains the Golden Glove




Ripped from the Beeb.............

Brighton head coach Graham Potter is still without the suspended Lewis Dunk and Neal Maupay.

Tariq Lamptey, Solly March, and Joel Veltman remain on the sidelines.

Manchester City midfielder Kevin De Bruyne faces a fitness test on the muscle issue that has ruled him out of their past two matches.

Sergio Aguero is the only definite absentee but manager Pep Guardiola hopes the striker will be fit to return from an adductor problem on Sunday.

Guardiola has confirmed Ederson will be back in goal for City's remaining fixtures.

MATCH FACTS

Head-to-head

Brighton have lost all seven of their Premier League meetings with Manchester City by an aggregate score of 21-2. The Seagulls have led for a total of just 83 seconds across those games.

Manchester City's most recent league defeat against Brighton was in April 1989 in the second tier, while their last top-flight loss against the Seagulls came in October 1981.

Brighton & Hove Albion

Brighton have dropped 25 points from winning positions in the Premier League this season, more than any other side.

Their only victory in their final home league game in the past six seasons came against Manchester United in 2017-18.

Since beating Crystal Palace in December 2018, the Seagulls have taken just two points from 27 in Premier League games on a Tuesday and have failed to score in each of the last four.

They have taken only one point out of a possible 21 in their Premier League fixtures this season against teams currently in the top four of the table (a 0-0 draw against Chelsea on 20 April).


Manchester City

Manchester City's 12 successive away league victories and 23-match unbeaten run away from home in all competitions are both records by a team in England's top four divisions.

The 12 away league wins they have achieved since 19 December is more than any other Premier League side has managed away from home all season.

Since losing against Chelsea in June 2020, Manchester City have taken 37 points from 39 available in midweek Premier League games.

They haven't lost their final away league game of the season since they were beaten by Tottenham at White Hart Lane in 2008-09 (W9, D2).

[Harry Dowd scored]

You would think some of the CL final team would need game time, I know there is zero pressure on the game but I don’t want to se Garcia in the side, he is leaving so let him go, the rest is up to the maestro

[salford city]

Genuinely have no clue on who he will pick but he won"t risk Ederson so can see Carson keeping the gloves. Serge is injured once more. Would like him to give a couple of the youngsters game time but think we will see a similar line up to the barcodes game. Forgot Torres got a hat trick last time out so he won't start........

[CTID Hants]

Genuinely have no clue on who he will pick but he won"t risk Ederson so can see Carson keeping the gloves. Serge is injured once more. Would like him to give a couple of the youngsters game time but think we will see a similar line up to the barcodes game. Forgot Torres got a hat trick last time out so he won't start........

Ederson confirmed as starting last 2 games in the league

[salford city]

Genuinely have no clue on who he will pick but he won"t risk Ederson so can see Carson keeping the gloves. Serge is injured once more. Would like him to give a couple of the youngsters game time but think we will see a similar line up to the barcodes game. Forgot Torres got a hat trick last time out so he won't start........

Ederson confirmed as starting last 2 games in the league

Ah, good stuff. Ederson will play then along with gimpy eric and the French goon at left back.............

[john@staustell]

Genuinely have no clue on who he will pick but he won"t risk Ederson so can see Carson keeping the gloves. Serge is injured once more. Would like him to give a couple of the youngsters game time but think we will see a similar line up to the barcodes game. Forgot Torres got a hat trick last time out so he won't start........

Not much of a risk to be honest Ederson, he only touches the ball about once every 20 minutes

[salford city]

Genuinely have no clue on who he will pick but he won"t risk Ederson so can see Carson keeping the gloves. Serge is injured once more. Would like him to give a couple of the youngsters game time but think we will see a similar line up to the barcodes game. Forgot Torres got a hat trick last time out so he won't start........

Not much of a risk to be honest Ederson, he only touches the ball about once every 20 minutes

You nevee know when the mad fcuker will come tearing out and clean someone out. Would prefer him on the sidelines watching.

[john@staustell]

Genuinely have no clue on who he will pick but he won"t risk Ederson so can see Carson keeping the gloves. Serge is injured once more. Would like him to give a couple of the youngsters game time but think we will see a similar line up to the barcodes game. Forgot Torres got a hat trick last time out so he won't start........

Not much of a risk to be honest Ederson, he only touches the ball about once every 20 minutes

You nevee know when the mad fcuker will come tearing out and clean someone out. Would prefer him on the sidelines watching.

Red card here wouldn't matter

[CTID Hants]

Your team to battle Brighton!

XI | Ederson, Cancelo, Dias, Stones, Zinchenko, Rodrigo, Gundogan (C), Bernardo, Mahrez, Torres, Foden

SUBS | Steffen, Ake, Jesus, Laporte, De Bruyne, Mendy, Fernandinho, Garcia, Palmer

[john@staustell]

Wouldn't argue much with that team

[bluemoon]

Strong line-up, good to see De Bruyne back.

[ayrshireblue]

Sterling not even on the bench.

[john@staustell]

Sterling not even on the bench.

Good

[ayrshireblue]

Sterling not even on the bench.

Good

The way he's been playing recently getting dropped is what he deserves.

[Sideshow Bob]

hope we get to see palmer.

[stevefromdonny]

COME ON CITY

that's a strong lineup, hope we could see Palmer at some stage, and it would have been nice to see Delap on the bench

[Mase]

Yeah Aguero has played his last game for us. Bet he regrets that total fuck up against Chelsea.

[sheblue]

Glad torres gets another start. Like to see him and phil link up.

[Beefymcfc]

Could that be the CL final team?

[nottsblue]

Could that be the CL final team?

Near enough