- Brighton have won four of their last five matches (Drawn 1), coming into this one after four successive victories.
- Palace have won two of their last three visits to Brighton (Lost 1).
- Brighton are the stronger side on paper and have been in red-hot form recently.
Seagulls can outfly Palace
Brighton & Hove Albion will come out on top of this Sunday's Premier League 2026-2027 clash between the Seagulls and the Eagles at the American Express Community Stadium, England, but the visitors should be able to get close enough to make this clash interesting.
Brighton are 3rd in the Premier League 2026-2027 table after six games with 13 points on the board and they are yet to taste defeat at home after three league outings (Won 2, Drawn 1).
Fabian Hurzeler's new-look Seagulls have won each of their last four in all competitions and their previous two league outings have been emphatic statement wins - a 3-0 home win over Arsenal followed by a 2-0 away win over Sunderland.
Palace are 12th in the table with seven points from six games and their away form in the Premier League 2026-2027 is average at best - one win, one draw and one defeat after three away trips (Scored 1.00 goals per game, Conceded 1.33 goals per game).
Head-to-head record suggests this could be close
Palace have won 2 of their last 3 visits to Brighton and should make the Seagulls work hard for a victory in this derby clash.
Palace have won 2, drawn 1 and lost 2 of their last 5 matches in all competitions and their recent games have seen a 0-0 away draw to Leeds United, a 0-2 friendly defeat to Bristol City and a 3-1 league win over Nottingham Forest.
Brighton should win this one, but Palace could make it competitive and there is certainly enough of a case to oppose the odds-on hosts at 1.54 with the Eagles coming in at 5.5 and the draw at 4.2.
Chess match in the middle third?
Pascal Gross has been the most prolific attacker in this Brighton side to date, netting 3 Premier League 2026-2027 goals in 5, while Joergen Strand Larsen has been a live wire for Palace, scoring 3 of their 8 in the last 5 matches.
Fabian Hurzeler has Brighton playing a very high-octane version of his favoured 4-2-3-1/4-3-3 system, one that is built around pressing high, winning the ball back and swarming teams in numbers quickly.
Palace are a little more structurally sound in comparison, set up in a mid-block system that looks to play through the central channels and make transitions both ways as quickly as possible.
There is a clash of styles here, with Brighton's man-to-man pressing style going up against Palace's preferred transition game and this has the potential to be a real chess match in the central third of the field.
Backing Brighton to win and both teams to score looks a lively alternative to the match result market with the Over 2.5 goals & BTTS options coming in at 1.57 and 1.62 respectively.
