Brighton & Hove Albion vs Brentford: Premier League preview, team news, stats and head-to-head

Brighton & Hove Albion vs Brentford: Premier League preview, team news, stats and head-to-head

  • Brighton are unbeaten in all three Premier League home games against Brentford (W2 D1) and have lost two of their last three home games against them before promotion.

  • Brentford have won just one of their last seven league games against Brighton (D3 L3), a 2-0 home win in October 2022.

  • Brentford alternated between defeats (3) and victories (2) in their last league game in the last five calendar years, losing 3-1 at Crystal Palace in the final game of 2023.

  • Brighton have alternated between a draw (3) and a defeat (2) in their last five Premier League games, with a 1-1 draw against West Ham last time out. They took the lead in all three of these draws.

  • Brentford have taken fewer points away from home this season than any other Premier League team (1), while for the whole of 2024 only Everton (10) have fewer points than the Bees (11, excluding promotion/relegation).

  • Brighton have scored in each of their last 13 Premier League games, but have only kept one clean sheet in this series. In fact, both teams have scored in each of the Seagulls’ last nine league games, since a 1-0 win at Newcastle in October.

  • Only bottom-placed Southampton have had more total shots (312) and more shots on goal (113) in the Premier League this season than Brentford (309 shots, 112 on target).

  • Before this round of fixtures, no team in the Premier League had scored more first-half goals this season than Brentford (19, level with Spurs), while only Leicester and Southampton (20 each) had conceded more goals in the first 45 minutes than them Bees (18).

  • Only two of the 32 goals Brentford have conceded this season have come from set pieces (1 corner, 1 penalty) and no team has scored more goals from open play so far this season than the Bees (30, level with Leicester).

  • Only Alexander Isak (10) has scored more goals in the Premier League this season, without any coming from the penalty spot, than Brentford’s Yoane Wissa (9).

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