Leicester vs Brighton Preview: Team News & Prediction

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Fresh off his first win as Leicester boss, Ruud van Nistelrooy will seek to back that up against a Brighton team who suffered a convincing midweek loss.

Kick-off date/time: Sunday 8th December, 2024: UK – 2:00pm / US ET – 9:00am / US PT – 6:00am

How to watch on TV: UK – Not televised / US – USA Network

How to watch online: UK – Cannot be streamed / US – nbc.com

Leicester Team News: Buonanotte ineligible

Predicted XI (3-4-3): Hermansen; Faes, Coady, Vestergaard; Justin, Soumare, Ndidi, Thomas; McAteer, Vardy, Mavididi

Unavailable: Stolarczyk (Injured), Pereira (Injured), Winks (Injured), Buonanotte (Ineligible), Fatawu (Injured)

Questionable

Brighton Team News: Welbeck trained but a slight doubt

Predicted XI (3-4-3): Verbruggen; Dunk, Van Hecke, Julio; Adingra, Wieffer, Baleba, Estupinan; Rutter, Joao Pedro, Mitoma

Unavailable: March (Fitness), Milner (Injured), Webster (Injured)

Questionable: Hinshelwood (Injured), Kadioglu (Injured), Veltman (Injured), Welbeck (Injured)

Leicester vs Brighton Prediction

Ruud van Nistelrooy grabbed his first win in charge of Leicester in midweek as his men beat West Ham 3-1 but he will know that he still has plenty of work to do. They conceded a staggering 31 shots to the Hammers in that game and they were particularly efficient with taking their chances. The Dutchman will have been delighted with the result but will know that is not sustainable.

They have a second successive home match which will certainly help them and they welcome Brighton to town here. The visitors had taken seven points from three matches prior to their 3-1 loss at Fulham in midweek. Their performance was decent enough but they gifted Fulham an early goal due to a goalkeeping error playing out from the back and they came up against an inspired Alex Iwobi.

Brighton are too good a team not to respond and Fabian Hurzeler has done an excellent job at ensuring he gets a response from his team when things have not gone their way this season. They have good options within their squad to change things around a little and get a response which should see them handle the quick turnaround in matches as well if not better than Leicester.

Van Nistelrooy’s men are still shipping a lot of chances and Brighton can certainly create them. We like Brighton’s chances of bouncing back here and getting a draw at the minimum.

Leicester vs Brighton Tip: Brighton draw no bet