The 142nd edition of the A23 derby will take place on Sunday Brighton & Hove Albion Welcome Crystal Palace to the Amex in the Premier League.

Both were considered European challengers at the start of the season, but the Seagulls got off to a much more successful start than the Eagles Fabian Hurzeler‘s men have had problems in the last few weeks.

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Brighton begin their longest winless run under Hurzeler at the weekend, having now gone three games without a win fall to seventh place.

It could be very costly in May to prevail against the teams struggling at the bottom, as Hurzeler saw his team throw away two points in the last five minutes away to Leicester City last week.

Yankuba Minteh‘s goal with ten minutes left looked like it would have sealed a comfortable three points away from home, but Jamie Vardy And Bobby Decordova Reid Both scored in the final stages and secured a point for the Foxes.

After only drawing 1-1 in their last home game against Southampton, this means Brighton have now failed to win any of their last five games against teams who started the day in the bottom four.

Palace are another club in the bottom four heading into this game, but at home Brighton have remained largely consistent and are one of three teams yet to suffer defeat in the Premier League alongside Arsenal and Brentford.

Keeping a clean sheet would help them end their worrying run of results against weaker teams, as although they have plenty of firepower in attack, they have conceded both goals and goals in their last seven games and since the start of the last season they did this 37 times in 53 games.

As for the game against Palace, the Seagulls have won two consecutive home games against the Eagles for the first time since the 1980s, so they should be confident of extending that, especially after the 4-1 win in that game in the last season.

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Palace are without a win in six games against Brighton but go into the game in a much better position than they were a few weeks ago and have moved away from the bottom three places.

The teams in the relegation zone all lost last weekend, while Palace narrowly defeated champions Manchester City 2:2 drawThat puts them four points clear of trouble.

manager Oliver Glasner However, there could be some disappointment in seeing his side take the lead twice and not benefit from City playing with 10 men in the closing stages.

However, the away win at Ipswich Town last midweek was the most important result after Aston Villa and Newcastle United also drew, meaning they have now lost just one of their last eight games in all competitions.

Away form often lets Palace down, but they go into the weekend unbeaten in three away games at Selhurst Park and could win back-to-back Premier League away games for the first time since the 2022/23 season.

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Danny Welbeck could be reinstated in the starting eleven instead of Evan Ferguson after missing the defeat at Fulham through injury and only being able to play 20 minutes last time out against Leicester.

Hurzeler wouldn’t say whether most of his injury doubts will be fit to play, but instead gave percentages of how likely it is that most of them will play.

Joel Veltman got a 50% chance; Ferdi Kadioglu 20%; Jack Hinshelwood 40% and James Milner only 10%, suggesting that perhaps none of them will appear here to begin with.

Palace should be able to welcome a summer recruit Chadi Riyadh He will return to the team in the coming weeks after playing for the U21 team a few days ago after a three-month break due to a knee injury.

Joel Ward suffered a calf injury during the week and is expected to be out Matheus Francawhich won’t be back until 2025, but Adam Wharton still has a slim chance of making it, even if there are major doubts about him.

After a strong performance against Man City last weekend, there is little indication that Glasner will make any personnel changes, so the Eagles may remain unchanged unless there are late injury casualties.

Possible Brighton & Hove Albion starting lineup:
Confidence; Lamptey, Van Hecke, Dunk, Estupinan; Baleba, Ayari; Minteh, Joao Pedro, Mitoma; Welbeck

Possible Crystal Palace starting lineup:
Henderson; Chalobah, Lacroix, Guehi; Munoz, Hughes, Lerma, Mitchell; Sarr, Mateta, Eze

We say: Brighton & Hove Albion 1-1 Crystal Palace

Brighton made an explosive start to the season, but things have been a bit stagnant in recent weeks, with their defense undoing them at key moments.

Palace have become a much more cohesive unit after a very difficult start and look to be one of the hardest teams to beat in the division at the moment and should offer a serious challenge to their rivals here.

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