By Geoff Pruce

Fulham v Brighton & Hove Albion | Tuesday 30th August 2022 | 7.30pm | Craven Cottage | #FULBHA

The opposition

  • It’s been a brilliant start to the campaign for Brighton, who are one of only five teams to remain unbeaten in the Premier League. Their undefeated run in the top flight actually stretches to nine matches when taking the end of last season into account, which is a club record.
  • A mean defence has provided excellent foundations for their three wins and a draw, with an Alexis Mac Allister own goal on the opening day the only time Robert Sanchez has had to pick the ball out of his net.
  • Add in the fact that they lost two key players from 2021/22 in the summer in Yves Bissouma and Marc Cucurella – to the tune of about £85m – and boss Graham Potter deserves a lot of credit for the job being done on the south coast.
Graham Potter observes training

Fulham team news

Long term absentees Harry Wilson and Manor Solomon are the only injury absentees, while Shane Duffy is not eligible to face his parent club.

Brighton team news

Adam Lallana, Jeremy Sarmiento and Jakub Moder will miss the trip to SW6, while Joel Veltman is a doubt after being substituted at the weekend with a stiff neck.

Player insight

Tim Ream is hoping for another lively atmosphere at Craven Cottage.

Our eventful fixtures against Liverpool and Brentford both saw the old place bouncing, and Fulham’s number 13 has asked for more of the same against the Seagulls.

“I don’t know that I’ve ever, in the seven years that I’ve been here, experienced the atmospheres that we’ve been having over the last probably seven, eight, nine games at the Cottage,” he said.

“It’s been fantastic, and the guys feel it, we do. We do feed off it.”

Tickets

This match has sold out.

Coverage

The match will be broadcast live on BT Sport, while FFCtv subscribers can listen to commentary from Gentleman Jim, Jamie Reid and Sean Davis.

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Forever Fulham

Steve Earle - who sits just above Aleksandar Mitrović in Fulham's all-time scoring list - will be presented to the crowd at half-time.

Weather

Despite it being a cloudy day, it will remain dry throughout, with temperatures around 20 degrees at kick-off (7.30pm).

Form

Fulham: DDWLL

Brighton: WDWWW

Top scorers

Fulham: Aleksandar Mitrović (4)

Brighton: Pascal Gross (3)