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Brighton & Hove Albion vs Tottenham Hotspur: Premier League – BBC Sport

Brighton & Hove Albion vs Tottenham Hotspur: Premier League – BBC Sport

  • After losing consecutive Premier League home games against Tottenham without scoring in 2021-22 and 2022-23, Brighton won this very game 4-2 last season.

  • Only one of the 14 Premier League meetings between Brighton and Tottenham has ended in a draw (1-1 in April 2018), with Spurs recording nine wins and the Seagulls four.

  • Brighton and Hove Albion have drawn their last two home games in the Premier League, most recently with three draws in a row in November 2023. In fact, no team has drawn more home games than Brighton since the start of last season (8).

  • Tottenham Hotspur have won their last two Premier League games, most recently winning three in a row in December last year. Spurs have scored three goals in each win (3-1 against Brentford, 3-0 against Man Utd), most recently winning three in a row and scoring more than three goals in April 2022.

  • Brighton won six of their first 10 Premier League games in October between 2017 and 2019 (D2 L2), but have since won just one of 16 October games since 2020 (D9 L6), a 4-1 win against Chelsea in 2022.

  • Only Manchester City (115) have had more shots on goal than Tottenham Hotspur (110) in the Premier League, while Spurs have had the most shots on goal of any team (45). It is the most shots on goal that Spurs have had in the first six games of a season since 2003/04.

  • Brighton have had 61.5% possession in the Premier League this season, their highest average in a single season in the competition. Meanwhile, only Southampton's Jan Bednarek (520) has completed more passes than Brighton's central defender Lewis Dunk in the 2024/25 season (510).

  • Dejan Kulusevski created nine chances for Tottenham in Tottenham's 3-0 win over Manchester United, the most chances by a Spurs player in a Premier League game since 2003/04; The only other player to achieve this for Spurs was Christian Eriksen against Newcastle in 2013 and Crystal Palace in 2016.

  • After failing to score or provide an assist in any of his first 31 Premier League appearances, Brighton's Carlos Baleba scored a goal and an assist in the 4-2 defeat to Chelsea. He is the youngest Cameroonian to appear in a Premier League -League game scored both a goal and an assist (20 years, 269 days).

  • Since the start of last season, Cole Palmer (28) and Ollie Watkins (23) are the only Englishmen to have scored more goals in the Premier League than Dominic Solanke (21). The Spurs striker is looking to score in three consecutive appearances for the first time since December 2023.

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