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Brighton vs Burnley Prediction & Betting tips
Brighton & Hover Albion and Burnley both took four points from the first four games in the Premier League. In the fifth round of play, these teams meet at the American Express Community Stadium, what can we expect from the relegation game duel?
Brighton & Hove Albion:
It will undoubtedly be another difficult season for Brighton & Hove Albion, that much is clear after the first four games. With Graham Potter, the club from the seaside resort has had a new trainer since this season, but Potter is also not going to end up with this Brighton in the left-hand row. The 44-year-old manager of Brighton has a reasonable selection at his disposal and normally Brighton should be able to maintain himself after 38 matches. The fact is that The Seagulls only managed to score four points in their first four games.
In addition, those points were taken in the first two games, as Brightkon cleverly won 0-3 against Watford and played a draw 1-1 against West Ham United in-house. Subsequently, The Seagulls lost in a league of Southampton (0-2) and Manchester City (4-0). Especially the 0-2 defeat at home against Southampton hurts Brighton supporters, because Southampton is normally a competitor. With Burnley-home and Newcastle United-out, there are now two duels in which the formation of Potter has to grab points, if only to put the competition behind.
Burnley:
The same goes for Burnley as for Brighton: The Clarets have to quickly score points in the coming weeks. With Brighton, Norwich City and Aston Villa, Burnley will meet three relegation candidates in the next three games and it is up to Sean Dyche’s team to score points against those teams. Where Brighton recently lost 0-2 to Southampton there, Burnley started the season with a 3-0 win over Southampton and also a visit to Wolverhampton (1-1), Burnley got a point. The duels with Arsenal (2-1) and Liverpool (0-3) were lost to Burnley, which was also eliminated in the Carabao Cup without a chance by Sunderland: 1-3.
Cup football obviously does not have priority at a club like Burnley, because The Clarets have their hands full in the competition. Last season Dyche and Burnley finished in fifteenth place in the Premier League and the number of defeats (twenty of them) was shockingly high. In addition, Burnley played in the final game before the international break, against Liverpool, with ten players who also played several times last season on behalf of The Clarets. Only Erik Pieters was new to the Dyche base team, but the left back is really not going to ensure that Burnley is suddenly no longer a relegation candidate.
At Burnley they have little positive recollection of the 0-3 lost match against Liverpool and Daniel Drinkwater in particular – the Chelsea mercenary went into town after the game and wanted to bring Kgosi Ntlhe’s girlfriend (Scunthorpe United) home but six men did not like it and they gave Drinking Water a black eye and an ankle injury. The wheel-turners – although Drinking Water action also does not deserve the beauty prize – wanted to break the legs of the 29-year-old midfielder, but in the end it was left with an ankle injury, which means that Drinkwater is out of play for a month.
Brighton vs Burnley head to head matches
09.02.19 PL Brighton Burnley 1 : 3
08.12.18 PL Burnley Brighton 1 : 0
28.04.18 PL Burnley Brighton 0 : 0
16.12.17 PL Brighton Burnley 0 : 0
02.04.16 CHA Brighton Burnley 2 : 2