Bournemouth have won four of their five Premier League home games against Brighton (L1), their highest win rate against any side they’ve faced more than three times at the Vitality Stadium (80%).
Brighton have won three of their last four Premier League games against Bournemouth, though the exception was a 3-0 loss in the most recent meeting in this exact fixture last season.
Bournemouth have won each of their last three Premier League home games and could win four matches in a row on home turf in the top-flight for the very first time.
Brighton and Hove Albion have won three of their last five Premier League games (D1 L1), as many victories as they managed across their previous 16 league matches (D6 L7); only Liverpool (13) have won more points than the Seagulls (10) in the top-flight since the beginning of October.
Only Tottenham (121) and Manchester City (103) have recorded more high turnovers than Brighton (99) in the Premier League this season, although only Wolves (4) have scored more goals in the competition following such a turnover than Bournemouth (3).
Crystal Place (2,365) are the only team to record more pressures than Bournemouth (2,336) in the Premier League so far this season, with over half of them coming in the middle third (1,181), the highest proportion of any side (51%).
Excluding own goals, Brighton and Hove Albion are the only team to hit double figures for different goalscorers in the Premier League this season, with the Seagulls’ 11 scorers just two fewer than they had across the whole of last season (13).
Evanilson has scored in each of his last three Premier League appearances. He could be the second Bournemouth player to net in four straight outings in the top-flight after Callum Wilson in September 2019.
Brighton’s João Pedro has been directly involved in six goals in his last eight Premier League appearances (4 goals, 2 assists). Against Man City last time out he became just the sixth substitute to both score and assist in the competition against the reigning champions, and first since Roberto Pereyra for Watford vs Chelsea in February 2018.
Bournemouth full back Milos Kerkez has recorded more overlaps into the final third (55) than any other player in the Premier League this season, with the 21-year-old recording the fifth-most crosses from open play of any defender in the competition so far this term (27).
