Brighton & Hove Albion look to keep their outside chance of a top-four finish alive in a Premier League clash against Leicester.
Victory would see Brighton climb to eighth in the table, whilst Leicester will stay second-bottom regardless of the result.
Team News
Jan Paul van Hecke is suspended for Brighton following his red card in their 2-1 defeat at Crystal Palace last weekend.
Kaoru Mitoma will face a late fitness check after he suffered a heel injury during the loss in South London.
Jason Steele (shoulder), Joel Veltman (foot), Tariq Lamptey, Georginio Rutter (both ankle), Ferdi Kadioglu (toe), Adam Webster, Igor Julio and James Milner (all hamstring) remain sidelined.
Leicester will be without Facundo Buonanotte who is ineligible to face his parent club.
Wout Faes (unspecified) and Harry Winks (personal) are doubts but Abdul Fatawu (ACL) remains ruled out.
When is Kick-Off?
Brighton host Leicester at the AMEX Stadium on Saturday 12 April at 3pm BST, untelevised live in the UK.
Stat Attack
- Brighton are unbeaten in their last five league meetings against Leicester (W2, D3).
- Leicester have avoided defeat in four of their six previous Premier League trips to Brighton (W3, D1, L2).
- Brighton have conceded twice in each of their last three league meetings against Leicester (W1, D2).
- Defeat would see Brighton suffer three consecutive league defeats for the first time under Fabian Hürzeler, having last done so under Graham Potter in February 2022 at the start of a six-match winless league streak.
- Leicester have conceded nine goals in their last four away matches without reply (L4).
Prediction
Having stuttered to another defeat, Brighton will be glad that this fixture has come at an ideal time because they just lacked the final touches against an in-form Palace team, but if they can show more composure in a game which they should dominate then the win will hopefully come.
Leicester meanwhile are just spiralling downhill after another lacklustre defeat in which Newcastle were simply dominant from start to finish, but the fact that they got a second-half clean sheet has to be a small positive coming into a game like this where they will probably have to do a lot of defending again.
I however just can’t see Brighton losing this in what should be a clinical win unless Leicester turn up with a huge improvement.
Prediction: Brighton 2-0 Leicester
