Teams/Brighton

Brighton

BHA2026/27 season3W 1D 1LWLDWW

3rd in the table
Best attack by xG per game
De Cuyper top scored Gameweek 1
Groß top scored Gameweek 4

Brighton are 3rd after 5 games (3W 1D 1L), with 16 goals from 11.6 xG and 5 conceded from 8.7 xGC. The next 5 fixtures average 3.4 in difficulty, the 4th hardest run in the league. Managers hold 1.1 Brighton players on average.

Next: Sunderland away, Sat 10 Oct, 15:003

Table: 3rd; 10 pts, 5 played
Goals: 16; 11.6 xG
Conceded: 5; 8.7 xGC
Clean sheets: 3; of 5
Next five: 3.4; the 4th hardest run
Held: 1.1; players per manager
Transfers: +1383771; net this gameweek
xPoints next: 10.7; Groß, FPL's official expected points, GW6

Squad

37 players, 5 gameweeks played

Compare the top four

Player																	Status
GKPVerbruggen	£4.5m	21.6%	23	5.7	4.2	450	100%	83	0	0	0.20	8.67	0	+488	5.7	+0.6	fit
GKPSteele	£4.0m	4.1%	0	0.0	n/a	0	0%	8	0	0	0.00	0.00	0	-7,913	0.0	-4.2	fit
DEFVuskovic	£5.0m	3.7%	32	8.7	6.2	437	100%	81	1	0	0.53	8.45	2	+45,571	8.7	+2.6	fit
DEFBoscagli	£4.5m	0.3%	19	4.7	3.5	437	100%	81	0	0	0.60	8.45	0	+1,325	4.7	-0.1	fit
DEFDe Cuyper	£5.0m	27.8%	38	7.0	6.6	423	100%	80	1	3	2.22	8.58	5	+285,943	7.0	+1.5	fit
DEFDunk	£4.5m	1.5%	22	5.7	3.9	360	80%	45	1	0	0.12	7.04	1	-2,780	4.3	+0.0	75% chance of playing
DEFF.Kadıoğlu	£4.4m	1.6%	13	4.3	2.5	332	80%	71	0	0	0.25	7.55	0	-2,996	4.3	-0.5	fit
DEFWieffer	£4.9m	0.2%	7	0.0	1.2	156	40%	0	0	0	0.25	3.18	1	-2,004	0.0	-4.3	Injured
DEFStruijk	£4.9m	0.2%	7	2.3	1.4	98	20%	26	0	0	0.17	1.70	0	-284	1.7	-2.4	75% chance of playing
DEFCostinha	£4.5m	0.0%	4	1.0	0.8	68	0%	18	0	0	0.42	1.02	0	+36	1.0	-3.4	fit
DEFSvoboda	£5.0m	0.1%	1	0.3	0.2	4	0%	10	0	0	0.00	0.14	0	+871	0.3	-4.0	fit
DEFCoppola	£4.5m	0.0%	0	0.0	n/a	0	0%	8	0	0	0.00	0.00	0	+10	0.0	-4.2	fit
DEFHadjam	£4.5m	0.0%	0	0.0	n/a	0	0%	8	0	0	0.00	0.00	0	-2	0.0	-4.2	fit
DEFIgor	£4.5m	0.0%	0	0.0	n/a	0	0%	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	0	-305	0.0	-4.3	Unavailable
MIDGroß	£5.8m	29.2%	47	10.7	9.9	450	100%	82	3	4	2.63	8.67	9	+800,933	10.7	+3.6	fit
MIDGomez	£5.0m	4.0%	24	4.3	5.1	433	100%	79	0	3	1.57	8.49	0	-26,976	4.3	-0.6	fit
MIDAyari	£5.4m	0.4%	15	4.3	3.0	333	80%	70	1	0	0.88	5.64	0	+357	4.3	-0.7	fit
MIDYalcouyé	£4.5m	4.0%	20	3.7	3.8	236	60%	47	2	0	1.91	6.57	1	-7,134	3.7	-1.5	fit
MIDAndrés	£5.5m	0.0%	12	4.0	4.7	109	20%	43	1	1	0.64	1.70	0	+2,486	4.0	-1.4	fit
MIDHinshelwood	£5.9m	0.6%	16	0.0	3.0	63	20%	0	2	0	1.43	0.19	3	-6,739	0.0	+0.1	Injured
MIDOsman	£5.0m	0.0%	3	0.3	0.6	40	0%	13	0	0	0.12	0.32	0	-12	0.3	-4.1	fit
MIDYohanna	£4.8m	0.0%	1	0.0	0.2	12	0%	0	0	0	0.03	0.00	0	-373	0.0	-4.2	Injured
MIDO'Riley	£5.4m	0.1%	2	0.7	0.4	10	0%	11	0	0	0.29	0.18	0	-140	0.7	-3.9	fit
MIDAzeez	£5.5m	0.0%	0	0.0	n/a	0	0%	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	0	-27	0.0	-4.5	Injured
MIDBuonanotte	£5.0m	0.0%	0	0.0	n/a	0	0%	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	0	-7	0.0	-4.5	Unavailable
MIDCozier-Duberry	£5.0m	0.0%	0	0.0	n/a	0	0%	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	0	-5	0.0	-4.5	Unavailable
MIDHowell	£4.5m	0.0%	0	0.0	n/a	0	0%	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	0	-210	0.0	-4.5	Unavailable
MIDIbrahim	£4.5m	0.0%	0	0.0	n/a	0	0%	8	0	0	0.00	0.00	0	+97	0.0	-4.3	fit
MIDMinteh	£5.8m	0.0%	0	0.0	n/a	0	0%	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	0	-191	0.0	-4.5	Injured
MIDMitoma	£5.9m	0.0%	0	0.0	n/a	0	0%	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	0	-47	0.0	-4.5	Injured
MIDOriola	£4.5m	0.2%	0	0.0	n/a	0	0%	8	0	0	0.00	0.00	0	-1,007	0.0	-4.3	fit
MIDWatson	£5.0m	0.0%	0	0.0	n/a	0	0%	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	0	-5	0.0	-4.5	Unavailable
FWDKostoulas	£5.6m	4.3%	28	7.3	6.0	353	80%	70	2	3	1.41	7.67	3	+305,135	7.3	+2.4	fit
FWDGeorginio	£5.3m	0.5%	6	0.3	1.1	104	20%	18	0	1	0.62	1.03	0	-1,195	0.3	-2.9	fit
FWDDavid	£5.9m	0.2%	1	0.0	0.2	23	0%	11	0	0	0.42	0.14	0	+1,013	0.0	-3.1	fit
FWDFerguson	£5.0m	0.0%	0	0.0	n/a	0	0%	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	0	-125	0.0	-3.3	Injured
FWDTzimas	£5.4m	0.0%	0	0.0	n/a	0	0%	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	0	-17	0.0	-3.3	Injured

37 players. Click a heading to sort. Adj form is the last five gameweeks re-weighted by the opponents faced; Starts is the share of the club's games started; xMins is the expected minutes next gameweek; xP next is the xPoints projection for it; PAR is points a gameweek above the cheap replacement in the position.

Attack and defence against the league

5 games

Attack

Goals16 · 3.20 per game · 1st

League average 1.41 per game

Expected goals11.6 · 2.31 per game · 1st

+4.5 against xG so far

Defence

Goals conceded5 · 1.00 per game · 7th

League average 1.41 per game, lower is better

Expected goals conceded8.7 · 1.73 per game · 7th

-3.7 against xGC, lower is better

Clean sheets3 of 5 · 0.60 per game · 1st

League average 30% of games

Brighton	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	CS
Home	3	2	1	0	8	1	2
Away	2	1	0	1	8	4	1

Blue bars are Brighton, grey the league average. Ranks are among the 20 clubs, 1 the best. Goals and clean sheets come from the results; xG is the squad's season total; xGC is the match total in each fixture. Small samples early in the season.

Goals (bars) and xG (line)

Conceded (bars) and xGC (line)

Fixture by fixture. xG is the squad's total in the match, xGC the match total FPL records against the defence.

Who plays

starts, minutes and rotation

Goalkeepers

VerbruggenNailed
xMins 83 · 5 of 5 starts · 450 min

No minutes: Steele

Defenders

VuskovicNailed
xMins 81 · 5 of 5 starts · 437 min
BoscagliNailed
xMins 81 · 5 of 5 starts · 437 min
De CuyperNailed
xMins 80 · 5 of 5 starts · 423 min
DunkLikely starter75% chance
xMins 45 · 4 of 5 starts · 360 min
F.KadıoğluLikely starter
xMins 71 · 4 of 5 starts · 332 min
WiefferOutInjured
xMins 0 · 2 of 5 starts · 156 min
StruijkBench75% chance
xMins 26 · 1 of 5 starts · 98 min
CostinhaBench
xMins 18 · 0 of 5 starts · 68 min
SvobodaBench
xMins 10 · 0 of 5 starts · 4 min

No minutes: Coppola, Hadjam

Midfielders

GroßNailed
xMins 82 · 5 of 5 starts · 450 min
GomezNailed
xMins 79 · 5 of 5 starts · 433 min
AyariLikely starter
xMins 70 · 4 of 5 starts · 333 min
YalcouyéRotation
xMins 47 · 3 of 5 starts · 236 min
AndrésRotation
xMins 43 · 1 of 5 starts · 109 min
HinshelwoodOutInjured
xMins 0 · 1 of 5 starts · 63 min
OsmanBench
xMins 13 · 0 of 5 starts · 40 min
YohannaOutInjured
xMins 0 · 0 of 5 starts · 12 min
O'RileyBench
xMins 11 · 0 of 5 starts · 10 min

No minutes: Azeez, Ibrahim, Minteh, Mitoma, Oriola

Forwards

KostoulasLikely starter
xMins 70 · 4 of 5 starts · 353 min
GeorginioBench
xMins 18 · 1 of 5 starts · 104 min
DavidBench
xMins 11 · 0 of 5 starts · 23 min

No minutes: Ferguson, Tzimas

The bar is the share of the club's minutes played. The label and xMins come from the expected-minutes model: recent weeks weighted most, scaled by FPL's availability. Nailed is a start chance above 85%, likely starter above 60%, rotation above 35%, bench for regular substitutes. After 5 games, so treat the labels as early.

Minutes by gameweek

Player	1 AVL H	2 CHE A	3 LEE H	4 COV A	5 ARS H	Min
GKPVerbruggen	90	90	90	90	90	450
DEFVuskovic	90	90	90	77	90	437
DEFBoscagli	90	90	90	77	90	437
DEFDe Cuyper	77	90	76	90	90	423
DEFDunk	90	90	90	90	0	360
DEFF.Kadıoğlu	0	90	77	90	75	332
DEFWieffer	77	79	0	0	0	156
DEFStruijk	0	0	1	12	85	98
DEFCostinha	26	10	12	6	14	68
DEFSvoboda	0	0	0	0	4	4
MIDGroß	90	90	90	90	90	450
MIDGomez	85	90	90	83	85	433
MIDAyari	63	0	90	90	90	333
MIDYalcouyé	4	73	90	64	5	236
MIDAndrés	·	·	0	25	84	109
MIDHinshelwood	63	0	0	0	0	63
MIDOsman	12	16	0	12	0	40
MIDYohanna	12	0	0	0	0	12
MIDO'Riley	0	0	0	6	4	10
FWDKostoulas	26	79	90	83	75	353
FWDGeorginio	90	0	0	0	14	104
FWDDavid	0	10	13	0	0	23

Minutes per gameweek; darker is more. A dot is no fixture that week, a double gameweek shows both fixtures added together. Hover a cell for points.

Results

3W 1D 1L

W
3-0 v ArsenalH
GW5, 19 Sept Groß, Kostoulas, Andrés
Clean sheet
W
5-0 at Coventry CityA
GW4, 13 Sept Dunk, Groß, Ayari, Kostoulas, Yalcouyé
Clean sheet
D
1-1 v LeedsH
GW3, 5 Sept Vuskovic
L
3-4 at ChelseaA
GW2, 30 Aug Groß, Yalcouyé, João Pedro (og)
W
4-0 v Aston VillaH
GW1, 23 Aug Hinshelwood 2, De Cuyper, Lindelöf (og)
Clean sheet

Ownership, transfers and prices

Managers hold 1.05 Brighton players on average. Net transfers this gameweek: +1383771 (1.7M in, 276K out).

Most owned

MIDGroß29.2%
DEFDe Cuyper27.8%
GKPVerbruggen21.6%
FWDKostoulas4.3%
GKPSteele4.1%

Transfers in

MIDGroß814K
FWDKostoulas325K
DEFDe Cuyper309K
GKPVerbruggen75K
DEFVuskovic60K

Transfers out

GKPVerbruggen75K
MIDGomez40K
MIDYalcouyé34K
DEFDe Cuyper23K
FWDKostoulas20K

Price moves this week

DEFDe Cuyper+0.1m, now £5.0m
MIDGroß+0.1m, now £5.8m
FWDKostoulas+0.1m, now £5.6m
MIDMinteh-0.1m, now £5.8m
FWDGeorginio-0.1m, now £5.3m
MIDYohanna-0.1m, now £4.8m
FWDDavid-0.1m, now £5.9m

Since the season started

DEFDe Cuyper+0.5m, now £5.0m
MIDGroß+0.3m, now £5.8m
FWDKostoulas+0.1m, now £5.6m
MIDMinteh-0.2m, now £5.8m
FWDGeorginio-0.2m, now £5.3m
MIDYohanna-0.2m, now £4.8m

Price alerts has tonight's likely movers for every club.

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Fixtures ahead

GW6
Sunderland A
Sat 10 Oct, 15:00 · their attack 10th, defence 16th
3
GW7
Crystal Palace H
Sun 18 Oct, 14:00 · their attack 15th, defence 19th
2
GW8
Liverpool A
Sun 25 Oct, 14:00 · their attack 8th, defence 4th
4
GW9
Man City A
Sat 31 Oct, 15:00 · their attack 2nd, defence 8th
5
GW10
Brentford H
Sun 8 Nov, 14:00 · their attack 3rd, defence 5th
3
GW11
Hull City A
Sun 22 Nov, 14:00 · their attack 13th, defence 6th
2
GW12
Newcastle H
Sun 29 Nov, 14:05 · their attack 5th, defence 14th
3
GW13
Bournemouth A
Wed 2 Dec, 20:00 · their attack 14th, defence 11th
3

Next five average 3.4, the 4th hardest run of the 20 clubs. Next eight 3.1, the 8th easiest. 1 is easiest, 5 hardest, by FPL's rating. The opponent ranks are their attack and defence among the 20 clubs by expected goals this season, 1 the strongest.

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xPoints for the next gameweek

Player	xPoints	Owned	FDR
MIDGroß	10.7	29.2%	3
DEFVuskovic	8.7	3.7%	3
FWDKostoulas	7.3	4.3%	3
DEFDe Cuyper	7.0	27.8%	3
GKPVerbruggen	5.7	21.6%	3
DEFBoscagli	4.7	0.3%	3

FPL's official expected points, GW6, for Gameweek 6. The club's top five add up to 39.4. All projections.

The table

#	Club	P	GD	Pts	Form
1	Man City	5	+8	15	WWWWW
2	Arsenal	5	+4	12	WWWWL
3	Brighton	5	+11	10	WLDWW
4	Brentford	5	+6	9	WDDDW
5	Leeds	5	+4	9	WDDWD

Computed from the results, so it can differ from the official table on tie-breaks. Full table.

Set pieces

Penalties

1MIDGroß
2FWDDavid
3MIDO'Riley

Direct free kicks

1MIDGroß
2MIDAyari
3DEFDunkunavailable
4DEFDe Cuyper
5MIDGomez

Corners and indirect free kicks

1MIDGroß
2DEFDe Cuyper
3DEFF.Kadıoğlu
4MIDAyari
5MIDMintehunavailable

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Team news

10 players flagged

DEFDunk75% chance of playing1.5% owned
Neck injury - 75% chance of playing · 22 Sept
MIDHinshelwoodInjured0.6% owned
Ankle injury - Expected back 10 Oct · 27 Aug
DEFWiefferInjured0.2% owned
Knee injury - Unknown return date · 4 Sept
DEFStruijk75% chance of playing0.2% owned
Hamstring injury - 75% chance of playing · 22 Sept
MIDMitomaInjured0.0% owned
Hamstring injury - Expected back 10 Oct · 24 Jul
MIDMintehInjured0.0% owned
Leg injury - Expected back 28 Nov · 14 Aug
MIDYohannaInjured0.0% owned
Unspecified injury - Expected back 10 Oct · 10 Sept
FWDTzimasInjured0.0% owned
Knee injury - Unknown return date · 23 Jul
FWDFergusonInjured0.0% owned
Ankle injury - Expected back 10 Oct · 23 Jul
MIDAzeezInjured0.0% owned
Hamstring injury - Expected back 10 Oct · 4 Sept

Left the club, still listed by FPL: Igor, Buonanotte, Howell, Watson, Cozier-Duberry.

Go deeper

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