Albion v Everton
PREMIER LEAGUE
Venue: The American Express Stadium
Date: Saturday 24th February 2024
Kick-off: 15:00 GMT
Referee: Tony Harrington
Assistants: Richard West, Scott Ledger
Fourth Official: Dean Whitestone
VAR: David Coote
Additional VAR: Natalie Aspinall
TEAM NEWS
Brighton & Hove Albion winger Kaoru Mitoma is a major doubt due to a back injury.
Julio Enciso returns to the matchday squad for the first time since August but Joao Pedro, James Milner and Jack Hinshelwood are still out.
Everton full-back Vitalii Mykolenko should feature despite sustaining a knock in the draw with Crystal Palace.
Seamus Coleman has returned to training following illness but André Gomes and Arnaut Danjuma are still out.
MATCH FACTS
Head-to-head
- Brighton are winless in three Premier League home games versus Everton since a 3-2 victory in October 2019.
- Everton could win three successive away matches against the same opponent for the first time since defeating West Bromwich Albion three times in a row between 2014 and 2016.
- The home team is winless in the past six Premier League meetings in this fixture - with two draws and four away victories, directly following a run of six consecutive home wins.
- Brighton are on a club top-flight record run of 10 consecutive home games unbeaten. The only visiting team to win a Premier League fixture at Amex Stadium in 2023-24 is West Ham United.
- They have both scored and conceded a goal in 14 of their past 15 home matches, with the exception a goalless draw with Wolves last month.
- Their solitary defeat in 14 Premier League games this season versus teams in the bottom half of the table was 4-0 at Luton Town on 30 January.
- Albion have scored at least four goals in each of their last five wins in all competitions. They have netted only two goals in total in the last six competitive fixtures they failed to win.
- The Seagulls have scored at least three goals in nine of their 10 Premier League wins this season, beating Brentford 2-1 in the other game. They've drawn five and lost four of the nine fixtures in which they scored once.
- Brighton's tally of 12 Premier League goals by teenagers this campaign is the most by a team in a season since Romelu Lukaku scored 14 for West Bromwich Albion in 2012-13.
- Evan Ferguson has gone 15 Brighton appearances without a goal in all competitions since he scored in a 3-2 league win at Nottingham Forest on 25 November.
- Kaoru Mitoma has failed to score in his last 13 Premier League appearances and provided just one assist during that time.
- Pascal Gross has scored two goals and registered eight assists in his last 13 league games. His nine assists this term is the most by a Brighton player in a Premier League season.
- Everton are winless in eight Premier League games, the longest current streak of any top-flight side. Their only longer winless run in the division was the opening 12 fixtures of the 1994-95 season.
- They have scored a league-low 13 goals from open play this season, including only one in their past eight matches.
- Everton have underperformed their expected goals by 5.03 in 2024, the biggest differential of any Premier League team.
- Dominic Calvert-Lewin has failed to score in his last 19 appearances in all competitions.
- The Toffees have scored 10 Premier League goals from corners, second only to Arsenal's 11.
- They are winless in all 10 Premier League fixtures this season against teams currently in the top seven of the table, losing all four away games. Brighton are currently seventh.
- Everton have gone four successive away games in all competitions without scoring for the first time since December 2000 to January 2001. They last fared worse between January and April 1976, with a run of six matches.
- Sean Dyche has taken charge of six Premier League fixtures at the Amex Stadium without ever losing, the highest such tally of any manager.
Roberto De Zerbi's Everton Press Conference
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