Brighton vs City

Match Thread


TEAM NEWS
Brighton manager Gus Poyet will give a late fitness test to Wayne Bridge after the left-back missed the Seagulls' last two fixtures with a calf problem.

Defender Adam El-Abd (hamstring) is back in contention but winger Vicente (thigh) has been ruled out.

Bristol City defender Matthew Bates (hamstring) is battling to be fit but could be included in the squad.

Fellow defenders Stephen McManus, Lewin Nyatanga and Greg Cunningham are all still injured and miss out.

MATCH FACTS
Head-to-head

• These clubs have been playing each other since 1923, and there is only one win between them; Bristol City have won 28 and Brighton 27, with 16 of the 71 competitive matches finishing all square.

• Both clubs have scored 89 league and cup goals against each other.

• Brighton are looking for a third straight win over the Robins, having completed the Championship double last season, with a 3-0 aggregate score.

Brighton & Hove Albion

• Seated two places and one point outset the top six, Brighton will make a second attempt in four days to capture their 1,000th home league win.

• Gus Poyet's Seagulls have not been beaten in November, and are hoping to stretch their undefeated sequence to seven games (W2, D4).

• There has not been more than a single goal between themselves and their opponents in any of their last 13 Championship matches, and they boast the joint tightest defence in the division, alongside Leicester, having conceded just 16 goals in 18 games.

Bristol City

• Only Sheffield Wednesday and Ipswich lie beneath Bristol City in the Championship table, after the Robins pulled off a shock 3-1 away win over Middlesbrough on Saturday to end their 11-match winless sequence.

• Derek McInnes' men have conceded seven fewer goals on their Championship travels, than they have at Ashton Gate.

• The Robins are the only league club in England without a clean sheet, and an unmatched nine of the 35 Championship goals they've let in have been shipped in the last 10 minutes.

 

I know its not a great match thread but we need somewhere to talk about the game

 

Heaton, Foster, Bates, Fontaine, Bryan, Adomah, Elliott, Kilkenny, Danns, Pearson, Davies.

Subs: Gerken, Carey, D. Wilson, Reid, Woolford, Taylor, Baldock.

 

4-3-3 or 4-5-1

Either way glad to see bates and davies back in the team, Took a risk in putting bates in my scoring prediction COME ON YOU REDS

 

let's keep the momentum going

 

We'll need it for Saturday, we have to take full advantage of wolves and knock a few past them too, Funny feeling we might keep a clean sheet tonight

 

I was really unhappy when I saw the team for Boro and we played well and won.
Because of that, the fact that I really like the team selection tonight is now strangely worrying me!

 

I don't like the bench, Apart from baldock no real game changers if we need to win

 

well my funny feeling came to nothing, 1-0 brighton FFS!!

 

Bollocks, but Shiny change that ****ing signature I can't stop looking at it

 

that pictures keeping a smile on my face, unlike the city

 

I have to stop and look at it and forget what thread I'm on

 

and me...... is this the last person to post wins thread

 

No its the goalie vote ain't it?

 

Who gives a ****, back to the picture

 

**** sake **** **** ****

 

Awhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh for **** sake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

****

 

This could be a cricket score

 

Ipswich and Sheffield Wednesday are both winning as well............ ****