Brighton - Chelsea Football prediction

Brighton & Hove Albion and Chelsea play at The American Express Community Stadium in a 17th round Barclays Premier League duel. These teams have met only twice recently: on 01-20-2018, ending with Chelsea's victory (0-4), and on 26-12-2017, ending with Chelsea's (2-0) victory. Although this is a game between 13th and 4th of the overall ranking, it is actually a game between the 7th place in home games and the 5th as a visitor.

Review of Brighton & Hove Albion
After 6 wins, 3 draws and 7 losses, the home team is in 13th place, having won 21 points. In the last match, he lost with Burnley away (1-0), having won 3-1 at home against Crystal Palace in the previous game. This is a team affected by the home factor, having won 14 points in their stadium, with 12 goals scored and 8 conceded, against 7 points out, where they scored 7 goals and suffered 14. For the championship, Brighton & Hove Albion won 14 points in 21 possible, after 4 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss in the last 7 games that played in his stadium.

In this competition, you have not lost any of the last 4 games in your stadium. The team has conceded goals in 7 of their last 10 games, so they have not shown great defensive solidity, but their attack has scored regularly, as they managed to make it 8 out of the last 10 games in this competition. In 16 games in this competition, he only managed 1 turn on the scoreboard in the 9 games in which he conceded the first goal. There are 1 highlights in the last 9 home games in all competitions: he has scored 5 of his 9 goals in the minutes (76'-90 ').

Brighton & Hove Albion have seen their 3-game unbeaten run in the last round and are looking for a recovery to try to reach the top half of the qualifying table and open up even greater advantage of the relegation zone. The team needs to improve both in the offensive and defensive sectors, having scored 19 goals, being the ninth worst attack among the 20 Premier League players, and suffered 22 goals, with the ninth defense being the least leaked, with 5 of their 6 games had goals from both sides. Playing at home like Sunday's match, Brighton & Hove Albion went up a lot of production, coming from 3 wins and 1 draw, but faced teams well below their next opponent in these 4 matches. For the difficult game against Chelsea, coach Chris Hughton should keep the same lineup of the last round as defender Duffy is suspended after a red card in the penultimate match of the team.
Confirmed lineup: M. Ryan, L. Balogun, Martin Montoya, L. Dunk, Bernardo, A. Knockaert, P. Groß, S. March, D. Stephens, D. Pröpper, G. Murray.
Coach: C. Hughton.

Chelsea Analysis
The visiting team is currently in 4th place with 34 points, after 10 wins, 4 draws and 2 losses. In the penultimate match, lost out to Wolverhampton by (2-1). In the last match, won at home to Manchester City by (2-0). This is a stronger team in their stadium, where they won 21 points, against only 13 in their games as a visitor. The team arrives in this match after a draw with Fehérvár by (2-2). In the league, Chelsea claimed 13 points out of 21, after 4 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses in their last 7 away games. In the matches played out in the league, the most frequent result at the end of the first 45 'was 0-1, which occurred in 3 of his 9 matches. His attack has scored regularly, having scored goals in 9 of the last 10 games for this competition. This is a team that does not usually feel difficult to open the scoring: it scored the first goal in 12 of the last 16 games for the Barclays Premier League, of those 12 reached the interval in the lead in 9 and managed to maintain the advantage until the end of the 90 ' in 9.

Chelsea have a good campaign in the English Premier League, come from a great victory over Manchester City where they took the invincibility of the strong team of Pep Guardiola and now goes in search of another positive result to stay in the zone of qualification to the next Champions League of UEFA and also to try to reduce the gap of 8 points for the leading Liverpool. The team is characterized by an excellent balance between the offensive and defensive sectors, having scored 33 goals, having the fourth best attack of the competition, and suffered only 13 goals, having the third defense less leaked, being a team that manages to press enough without leave many spaces behind. Playing away from home, as the match on Sunday, Chelsea fell from yield, comes from 2 consecutive defeats, but it is worth noting that has the second best attack and the fourth defense less leaked in this type of situation. For the game against Brighton & Hove Albion, coach Maurizio Sarri will not be able to rely on midfielder Kovacic because of injury.