Can Crystal Palace end their nine-game winless run at Brighton?

Brighton & Hove Albion host Crystal Palace in the Premier League at the Amex Stadium for the M23 derby clash on Sunday afternoon.

The Seagulls were held to a 1-1 home draw by Everton last time out in the Premier League, and they currently sit 13th with 31 points in the PL standings.

Palace battled to a 1-1 stalemate at Nottingham Forest in the last Premier League outing, and they have gone nine games without a PL win.

Match preview

Brighton have won just two of their last 13 Premier League games against Crystal Palace (D7 L4), though both victories in that time have come at home.

Crystal Palace have won two of their last three Premier League games against Brighton (D1), as many as they had in the previous 12 (D6 L4).

Since the start of December, only Wolves (6) and Burnley (5) have won fewer points in the Premier League than both Brighton and Crystal Palace (9 each), with the Eagles also having the joint-worst goal difference in that time (minus 10 – scored 8, conceded 18).

The Seagulls have won just one of their last four Premier League matches when going ahead (D1 L2), having gone on to win nine of their previous 11 games when leading beforehand (D2). They have gone ahead but failed to win in each of their last two (D1 L1), never previously doing so in three in a row in the competition.

The Eagles are winless in nine Premier League matches (D3 L6), last going 10+ games without a victory between January and March 2023 (12).

In the last two seasons, the only ever-present clubs to lose fewer home Premier League games than Brighton (4) are Liverpool and Arsenal (3 each), with the Seagulls losing just two of their last 20 at the Amex (W10 D8), both against Aston Villa (0-3 in April 2025, 3-4 in December 2025).

Only Jean-Philippe Mateta (10) has more goals in all competitions for Crystal Palace in 2025/26 than Ismaïla Sarr (9) – he also scored two and assisted another on his last appearance at the Amex in December 2024 in a 3-1 Palace win.

Brighton’s James Milner could equal Gareth Barry’s Premier League record for appearances in this game, with Milner one behind Barry’s 653-game total. Although they would be level for games played, Milner has played 14,031 fewer minutes in the competition currently than Barry clocked up in his 653 games.

Team news

Brighton & Hove Albion

Yasin Ayari was forced off with a shoulder injury last weekend, so he’s unavailable.

He joins Solly March, Adam Webster and Stefanos Tzimas in the host’s infirmary.

Crystal Palace

Eddie Nketiah, Daichi Kamada and Cheick Doucoure are sidelined with injuries.

Adam Wharton will return from suspension after he was sent off in the Chelsea defeat.

Predicted line-ups

Brighton & Hove Albion: Verbruggen, Veltman, Van Hecke, Dunk, De Cuyper, Gomez, Baleba, Gross, Rutter, Welbeck, Mitoma.

Crystal Palace: Henderson, Richards, Lacroix, Riad, Munoz, Hughes, Wharton, Mitchell, I. Sarr, Pino, Johnson.