Match Previews

It’s one of the most eagerly anticipated games of the season as Brighton and Hove Albion travel to face Manchester United, meaning that most of the Albion supporters making the journey to Old Trafford will now have been there more times than all the United supporters who live in Sussex

You know you’ve got a glamour game on your hands when Brighton and Hove Albion are attempting to encourage ticket sales by saying that it is an opportunity to see the Amex Stadium’s new LED floodlights for the first time. The opposition by the way is Stoke City

Brighton and Hove Albion look to extend their unbeaten run in the Premier League to four matches away at struggling Swansea City, having never won at the Liberty Stadium but signed plenty of expensive rubbish from the Swans

It’s another “South Coast Derby” as Southampton, the team that Gus Poyet tried to turn into our arch rivals with absolutely no success during his spell in charge of the Albion, visit the Amex

For the first time since 2011, Brighton and Hove Albion fans will get the chance to see their side play at an athletics track as we make a first ever visit to the London Stadium to take on West Ham United

Struggling Everton are the visitors to the Amex for a game that has remarkably been moved to a Sunday afternoon kick off purely so it can be screened live in India. We never knew the Albion were so popular on the sub-continent

The Albion’s first visit to one of the big six comes with the trip to Emirates Stadium to take on crisis club Arsenal, who’ve only won three FA Cups in four seasons and qualified for the Champions League 19 times out of 20. Must be really tough being a Gunners fan at the minute

The Championship’s top two from last season meet for the first time in the Premier League as Rafa the Gaffer brings his Newcastle United side to the Amex with the Albion looking for revenge after seeing the Toon Army overturn a seven point gap with three games remaining to claim the title four months previously

For the second time in the space of a week, Brighton will take on Bournemouth at the Vitality Stadium as the two sides meet in the third round of the Carabao Cup just four days after the Cherries triumphed 2-1 in the Premier League meeting between the two

It’s the first ever top flight 100-miles-apart South Coast Derby between Plucky Little Bouremouth, who’s success has been based on nothing more than a bag of magic beans, a billionaire Russian oligarch and financial fair play losses of £40m, and Brighton and Hove Albion at the Vitality Stadium