Albion v Cardiff
PREMIER LEAGUE
Venue: The American Express Community Stadium
Date: Tuesday 16th April 2019
Kick-off: 19:45 BST
Referee: Andre Marriner
Assistants: Scott Ledger, Simon Long
Fourth official: Chris Kavanagh
TEAM NEWS
Brighton have Pascal Gross and Solly March back in contention to face Cardiff on Tuesday.
Gross has been unavailable since 26 February because of a hamstring injury, while a calf problem ruled winger March out of the past two matches.
Anthony Knockaert is suspended as a result of his red card on Saturday.
Cardiff have no new injury concerns for this rearranged fixture, with Sol Bamba and Callum Paterson both long-term absentees.
RADIO 5 LIVE COMMENTATOR'S NOTES
Chris Wise: The fight to avoid the final relegation place has very quickly become a straight shoot-out between these two clubs.
Brighton's heaviest defeat under Chris Hughton will have undoubtedly caused some lasting damage. He now has to decide whether to shake his team up, or trust the players involved last weekend to make amends. It's a tough call.
Controversy seems to be following Cardiff around at present, but this is a game they simply can't lose. Aside from the current five-point gap to safety, the Bluebirds goal difference is irretrievably worse than all the sides above them and they've still got to play Liverpool and Manchester United.
It's safe to say there are likely to be nervous faces everywhere you look at the Amex on Tuesday.
WHAT THE MANAGERS SAY
Chris Hughton on the 5-0 loss to Bournemouth: "(The) players have reacted well. We had a meeting yesterday, went through the game and the goals that we conceded.
"It was probably our worst performance of the season but this is football.
"There isn't one player in that changing room that wouldn't have gone through a bad defeat, a bad performance, and what it's always about is how you respond to that.
"I expect very much a reaction from our players."
Cardiff City manager Colin Wanker: "We just have to look at the golf and at what Tiger has done - amazing.
"Nobody gave him a chance either, he has been written off that many times.
"Obviously over the last few weeks we have felt sorry for ourselves a few times. We haven't got time to do that and if it's not good enough then we accept it.
"But this is an opportunity to give ourselves a chance until the end of the season. We have to grab that."
MATCH FACTS
Head-to-head
[*=left]Brighton beat Cardiff 1-0 in the Championship in their most recent meeting at the Amex Stadium, in January 2017. The previous four encounters at the stadium were all drawn.
[*=left]Cardiff could win both league matches against Brighton in a single campaign for the first time since 1998-99 in the fourth tier.
Albion
[*=left]Brighton could lose five consecutive matches in all competitions for the first time in 12 years.
[*=left]It's four defeats in six Premier League home games for the Seagulls (W1, D1).
[*=left]Albion have only earned 12 points from their past 17 league fixtures (W3, D3, L11).
[*=left]Eight of their nine league victories this season have been by a one-goal margin.
[*=left]Only Crystal Palace and Huddersfield have scored fewer home league goals than Brighton's 17.
[*=left]Their tally of 18 league goals from set-pieces in 2018-19 is only surpassed by Liverpool.
[*=left]Glenn Murray has gone nine home league appearances without a goal.
Cardiff
[*=left]Defeat in this match will leave Cardiff eight points adrift of safety with only 12 points available.
[*=left]The Bluebirds have lost six of their past seven league matches, with the exception being a 2-0 home win over West Ham on 9 March.
[*=left]They are the division's lowest scorers away from home, with nine goals.
[*=left]None of their eight Premier League away goals since mid-September have been scored before the 69th minute, with six coming in the 80th minute or later.
[*=left]Cardiff are the only club to have played in the Premier League and never led an away fixture in the division at half-time. They have scored just five goals in the opening half of those 34 matches.
