Brighton v Burnley: Premier League – live!

09 February 2019 04:36
Premier League updates from the 5.30pm GMT kick-offThe Fiver: get our free daily email sent to your inboxAnd feel free to email scott.murray@theguardian.com 4.36pm GMT Brighton make one change to the team named in the Premier League last weekend for the goalless draw against Watford. Dale Stephens comes in for Yves Bissouma, who drops to the bench.Burnley are unchanged. It’s the same XI who earned a draw against Southampton last week, with veteran newboy Peter Crouch once again given the role of supersub. 4.32pm GMT Brighton & Hove Albion: Ryan, Montoya, Duffy, Dunk, Bong, Gross, Stephens, Propper, March, Murray, Locadia.Subs: Kayal, Bissouma, Knockaert, Jahanbakhsh, Button, Bernardo, Burn.Burnley: Heaton, Bardsley, Tarkowski, Mee, Taylor, Hendrick, Westwood, Cork, McNeil, Wood, Barnes.Subs: Lowton, Gibson, Crouch, Hart, Ward, Vydra, Long. 10.35am GMT We’ll be straight with you: this fixture does not scream GOALFEST!!! The Seagulls and the Clarets have met each other in the top flight of English football on three previous occasions. The classified scores: 1-0, 0-0, 0-0. And neither team have been banging them in much this season; they’re both scoring at a rate of one a game, give or take a couple of hundredths here and there. You’ll thank me for tempting fate when this ends 4-3.But both sides will nevertheless be in a reasonable state of mind. Brighton have only won once in their last ten Premier League games, but they’ll be buoyed by their fourth-round FA Cup victory over West Bromwich Albion in midweek. Burnley meanwhile were in a little trouble for a while back there, but an unbeaten run of six games in the league, coinciding with Tom Heaton’s return in goal, has extricated them from bottom-three bother. Continue readingreadfullarticle

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