Premier League Round 7 2026-10-18 · 13:00 UTC finished
Brighton (home)
VS American Express Stadium, Brighton
Crystal Palace (away)
Prediction
61% Brighton (home) Model favorite
23% Draw
16% Crystal Palace (away)
Expected goals 1.89 — 1.04 Over 2.5 goals: 56% Both teams to score: 55%

Model: history/v2-w1460-r150. Probabilities are produced by our own model from public match data. They are not odds and not betting advice.

Why — recent form

"—" means the number is not available in our data; we never fill gaps with zeros. Recent form covers only matches with expected-goals data, which may be fewer than the team's actual recent fixtures.

Metric Brighton Crystal Palace
Recent xG (attack, per-match avg) 2.321.34
Recent xGA (defence, per-match avg) 1.552.34
Sample size (matches with xG data) 55
Rest days since last match 83
Season pressing (PPDA, lower = more intense) 6.7 15.8
Matches in the last 7 days 12
Matches in the next 7 days 23
Travel to this match (km) 459679

What could go against this prediction

The model's top probability is below 70%; in backtests matches in this band end as predicted about 65.0% of the time.

Injuries & suspensions

Latest pre-match snapshot from our data source; availability varies by league.

Brighton

  • injured Evan Ferguson return: Mid October 2026
  • injured Femi Azeez return: Late October 2026
  • injured Kaoru Mitoma return: Late October 2026
  • injured Mats Wieffer return: Late October 2026
  • injured Stefanos Tzimas return: Late October 2026
  • injured Yankuba Minteh return: Mid November 2026
  • injured Zadok Yohanna return: Late October 2026

Crystal Palace

  • injured Ben Chilwell return: doubtful
  • injured Chadi Riad return: Late June 2027
  • injured Dean Henderson return: doubtful
  • injured Takehiro Tomiyasu return: doubtful
  • suspended Axel Disasi return: Mid October 2026

Head to head

All-time (per our source): Brighton 6 · 10 10 draws · 9 Crystal Palace

DateHome ScoreAway
2026-02-08Brighton & Hove Albion 0 - 1Crystal Palace
2025-11-09Crystal Palace 0 - 0Brighton & Hove Albion
2025-04-05Crystal Palace 2 - 1Brighton & Hove Albion
2024-12-15Brighton & Hove Albion 1 - 3Crystal Palace
2024-02-03Brighton & Hove Albion 4 - 1Crystal Palace
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Data coverage

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