Brighton & Hove Albion vs Crystal Palace predicted score, key stats and suggested bets

Premier League, Wednesday, March 15, Kick-off 7.30pm, live on Sky Sports

Brighton & Hove Albion 1-0 Crystal Palace

Brighton vs Crystal Palace HT draw

Brighton to win by one goal

Brighton have drawn their last three matches against Crystal Palace in all competitions

There have been under 2.5 goals scored in eight of Crystal Palace's last nine PL games

Wilfried Zaha has scored more goals against Brighton (eight) than any other opponent in his career

Brighton have scored in 18 of their last 19 games in all competitions

No team has had more half-time draws in the PL than Palace (15)

PL: Crystal Palace 1-1 Brighton, February 2023

PL: Brighton 1-1 Crystal Palace, January 2022

PL: Crystal Palace 1-1 Brighton, September 2021

PL: Brighton 1-2 Crystal Palace, February 2021

PL: Crystal Palace 1-1 Brighton, October 2020

Tariq Lamptey (knock) missed the game with Leeds and is a doubt, so Joel Veltman is set to continue at right-back. Jakub Moder and Adam Lallana remain sidelined. Levi Colwill and Yasin Ayari are available again.

Will Hughes missed the defeat against Man City through illness, but looks set to return. Sam Johnstone and Nathan Ferguson are out. Cheick Doucoure is available for selection after serving a one-match ban and could replace Luka Milivojevic. Odsonne Edouard and Jean-Philippe Mateta are both pushing to start after Palace's poor run in front of goal.

Crystal Palace have not won a PL game since Dec 31

Palace have failed to score in their last three PL games

Brighton drew 2-2 with Leeds at the weekend

Brighton have kept three clean sheets in their last four at home

Roberto de Zerbi after the 2-2 draw at Leeds: "I think we lost two points.

"We played very well against a good team, a live team and I am really sorry for the result.

"For the quality of play, for the mentality, for the performance of my players, I am really pleased."

Patrick Vieira after the defeat to Man City: "Of course I'm really frustrated because we defended well. We needed to defend well against City and that is what we did. I think we did it really well.

"The frustration is about conceding the penalty. I think that is something we should avoid and the lack of concentration in that moment gave away the hard work from the players on the field."

Palace cannot buy a win at the moment, in fact they cannot buy a shot on target, having failed to register one in their last three games.

It's that stat that has led Patrick Vieira to head the market in the sack race. They have not won a game in 2023 and are sinking faster than any other team in the Premier League. And they look like sitting ducks at The Amex on Wednesday night, but these two teams do have a strange rivalry borne from the 1970s.

There might be 50 miles between them but Brighton vs Palace is always a derby-like atmosphere and the visitors will need it to be as frantic as ever if they are to get anything from the game.

Vieira will likely shuffle his forward line in the hope of finding a goal from somewhere on the south coast. They have looked toothless since the turn of the year and face a huge battle to turn around their form.

They have won just twice away from home, but they have been competitive and have only lost by more than one goal on two occasions - away at Man City and Everton.

Brighton have been one of the surprise packages under Roberto de Zerbi, but things may become a bit more tricky for them once teams work them out.

Leeds did well to earn a draw with them last time out and they were compact, sat deep and did not get sucked out trying to press Brighton high.

Palace will need to do similar, otherwise it looks like being a home banker. With just six home wins from 12, though, the hosts are not a team to pile into, especially given their 4/9 quote.

Palace have enough about them to make it a difficult night at The Amex and the recent trend is to back a 1-1 draw in this fixture. But Brighton did create the better chances against Leeds and on another day would have taken the points and they might just edge this one by the odd goal.