AFC Bournemouth and Brighton & Hove Albion will take on on Tuesday the 4th of April at 7:45 pm in the 7th week of the Premier League. The match will be played in Bournemouth at the Vitality Stadium. The encounter will be officiated by Darren Bond.
AFC Bournemouth occupies the 17th position in the table with 27 points. It comes from a 2-1 win against Fulham in its last match in the Premier League. Thus far, it has won 7 times, draw 6 times, and lost 15 times.
Brighton & Hove Albion occupies the 6th position in the standings with 43 points. It comes from a 3-3 draw against Brentford in its last match in the Premier League. To date, it has won 12 times, draw 7 times, and lost 7 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
AFC Bournemouth
AFC Bournemouth has mostly adopted the 4-4-2 line-up most used during the season (7 times or 25.00%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-4-2 (7 times), 4-4-1-1 (6 times), 4-2-3-1 (6 times), 3-4-2-1 (3 times), 5-4-1 (2 times), 5-3-2 (2 times), 3-5-1-1 (once) and 3-1-4-2 (once).
Gary O\’Neil is expected to play against Brighton & Hove Albion with the following players: Neto, Lloyd Kelly, Marcos Senesi, Jack Stephens, Adam Smith, Ryan Christie, Jefferson Lerma, Marcus Tavernier, Hamed Junior Traorè, Philip Billing and Dominic Solanke.
In case that the above line up is confirmed, the estimate average age of AFC Bournemouth would be 27.55.
Gary O\’Neil will probably not be able to employ Jordan Zemura because of injury.
Junior Stanislas will definitely miss the match.
Brighton & Hove Albion
Brighton & Hove Albion has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up most used during the season (14 times or 53.85%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (14 times), 3-4-2-1 (4 times), 3-4-1-2 (2 times), 4-4-2 (2 times), 3-5-2 (2 times), 3-5-1-1 (once) and 3-3-3-1 (once).
Roberto De Zerbi is expected to play against AFC Bournemouth with the following players: Jason Steele, Pervis Estupinan, Lewis Dunk, Adam Webster, Joël Veltman, Pascal Groß, Moisés Caicedo Corozo, Kaoru Mitoma, Solly March and Deniz Undav.
Assuming that this will be the line-up, the average age of Brighton & Hove Albion would be 28.50.
There are doubts about the presence of Evan Ferguson.
Tariq Lamptey, Adam Lallana, Jeremy Sarmiento and Jakub Moder will definitely miss the match.