How to watch Brighton v Arsenal, team news, predicted line-ups and more
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The title race enters its next chapter when Arsenal travel to Brighton on Wednesday.
Mikel Arteta’s men will be looking to keep the gap to Manchester City to at least five points with a win on the south coast.
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Here’s everything you need to know ahead of the game…
Kick-off time
7:30pm UK time, Wednesday March 4
How to watch
TNT Sports 2
Streaming on Discovery +
Injuries and suspensions
Brighton: Ayari (doubt), Webster (out), Tzimas (out)
Arsenal: Rice (doubt), Havertz (doubt), Odegaard (doubt), White (out), Merino (out)
Predicted line-ups
Brighton (4-2-3-1): Verbruggen; Veltman, van Hecke, Dunk, Kadioglu; Baleba, Gross; Gomez, Hinshelwood, Mitoma; Welbeck
Arsenal (4-3-3): Raya; Timber, Saliba, Gabriel, Hincapie; Rice, Zubimendi, Eze; Saka, Gyokeres, Martinelli
Recent form
Brighton have halted a dreadful run of form by winning their last two league games, against Brentford and most recently Nottingham Forest.
Arsenal have also won back-to-back games against London rivals Tottenham and then Chelsea.
What’s been said?
Brighton boss Fabian Hurzeler on the debate around set-pieces: “There are no clear rules any more [around] how much time you can spend taking a corner or a throw-in.
“Some of the ways teams are blocking, there’s no real rule. Sometimes the referee whistles and it’s a foul, sometimes it isn’t a foul or they don’t whistle.
“[We need] a clear rule on how much time you can take for a corner, a free-kick, because no-one recognises it. When Arsenal have a corner and they are leading, sometimes they spend over one minute just to take a corner.”
Mikel Arteta on the recent criticism of his side’s style of play: “I don’t know how you can celebrate one goal differently from another one. Maybe for YouTube, it’s nicer with one than the other.
“The reality of football depends a lot – I would like to play with three extra players in my own half to get some beautiful football against the free man, but that’s not the reality of football. If you want to watch that football, you have to go to another country.
“This is the Premier League, for the last two or three seasons, this is not the case.”