Coventry vs Brighton Tips & Predictions - Premier League Away Win on the Cards

Alex Waite

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Last updated: Fri 11 Sep 2026 16:27

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Coventry have struggled to compete in the Premier League
Brighton have made a positive start to the new season
The Seagulls can beat the Sky Blues on Sunday

Brighton have won 5 of their last 8 games (Getty)

Coventry vs Brighton Preview

Coventry lose matches and have been unthreatening since promotion to the Premier League. Brighton are a strong team and can keep their good form rolling with a league victory.

Coventry vs Brighton Preview
Coventry on a 3 Match Losing Streak
H2H - Seagulls Advantage
Coventry Lacking EPL Quality
Brighton Tough to Beat
Predicted Starting Lineups & Team News

Coventry on a 3 Match Losing Streak

Coventry have lost their last 3 matches.
Coventry have lost 2 of their last 3 games against Brighton.
Brighton have won 5 of their last 8 games.

H2H - Seagulls Advantage

Brighton have a 28-19 advantage against Coventry, alongside 23 draws.

Coventry Lacking EPL Quality

Coventry are bottom of the Premier League and have lost all three matches this season. The Midlands team are goalless and have conceded five.

Frank Lampard’s outfit lost 3-0 at Arsenal in their opening Premier League game. Coventry had 0.2 XG and one shot on target.

The Sky Blues then beat Plymouth 4-2 away before a 1-0 home league loss against newly promoted Hull.

Lampard’s side fell to consecutive defeats following a 1-0 loss at Man City. Coventry allowed 2.12 XG, had just 22% possession and conceded in the first half.

Brighton Tough to Beat

Fabian Hurzeler’s Brighton are in solid recent form and have lost just once in their previous eight, winning five.

The Seagulls were on a six-match unbeaten run, including five victories. Brighton capped that streak with 4-0 wins against Aston Villa and Tromso.

The south coast side’s unbeaten run ended with a 4-3 defeat at Chelsea. Hurzeler’s team had 74% possession and 15 shots at Stamford Bridge.

Brighton held Leeds to a 1-1 Premier League draw at the Amex on Saturday. They conceded in the first half, hit back with 2.2 XG and Luka Vuskovic levelled in the 71st minute.

Predicted Starting Lineups & Team News

Coventry (5-4-1): Carl Rushworth; Milan van Ewijk, Bobby Thomas, Aurele Amenda, Ethan Pinnock, Jay Dasilva; Jack Rudoni, Caleb Yirenkyi, Matt Grimes, Ephron Mason-Clark; Taiwo Awoniyi

Midfielder Josh Eccles, forward Haji Wright and defenders Kaine Kesler-Hayden and Luke Woolfenden are injured. Frank Lampard provided a pre-match update on the injured Coventry players and said:

“Josh Eccles is not fit yet, Kaine [Kesler-Hayden] will not be back yet, hopefully he'll be back for around international break time to start training, Wolfy [Luke Woolfenden] the same and Haji [Wright] is longer term.”

Brighton (4-2-3-1): Bart Verbruggen; Ferdi Kadioglu, Luka Vuskovic, Lewis Dunk, Olivier Boscagli; Pascal Gross, Yasin Ayari; Diego Gomez, Malick Yalcouye, Maxim De Cuyper; Charalampos Kostoulas

Midfielder Jack Hinshelwood and defender Mats Wieffer won’t feature due to injury.

Forwards Kaoru Mitoma, Yankuba Minteh, Evan Ferguson, Stefanos Tzimas and Zadok Yohanna are ruled out through injury.

Georginio Rutter is in contention to return after a recent foot injury. Fabian Hurzeler confirmed the attacker’s likely availability for Coventry and said:

“He definitely should be close. He had a small setback but he was on the (training) pitch now, so hopefully he’s available for the weekend if nothing goes wrong."

Verdict

Coventry v Brighton

Coventry have struggled with the step up in quality in the Premier League and Brighton win matches. The Seagulls have enough class to control this game and defeat the Sky Blues.

Brighton Win

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Alex was born in London and studied at Swansea University in Wales. He used to work as a teacher in London but changed a few years ago to work as a full-time sports writer. Mostly enjoys watching and writing about football, cricket, golf, rugby and tennis.

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