Key events
Today’s Premier League results so far
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Sheffield United 2-2 Everton
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Brentford 2-2 Bournemouth
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Burnley 2-5 Spurs (Son hat-trick)
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Chelsea 0-1 Nottingham Forest
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Man City 5-1 Fulham (Yep hat-trick)
It’s a 4/5 for you two, now get out of my sight
If this isn’t an excuse to play Lamb, then I don’t know what is
If this isn’t an excuse to play DJ Shadow, then I don’t know what is
There’s loads going on in the 3pm games, including a romp for Spurs at Turf Moor. Barry Glendenning is waiting to furnish you – and only you, because you are special to us – with updates.
Team news
Roberto De Zerbi makes three changes from the defeat to West Ham. Joel Veltman, Jan Paul van Hecke and Joao Pedro replace James Milner, Adam Webster, who was given an indecent chasing by Michail Antonio, and the injured Danny Welbeck.
Sven Botman’s ankle injury means one change for Newcastle. Matt Targett comes in and Dan Burn moves across to centre-back.
Brighton (4-2-4) Verbruggen; Veltman, Van Hecke, Dunk, Estupinan; Gross, Gilmour; March, Ferguson, Joao Pedro, Mitoma.
Substitutes: Steele, Lamptey, Igor Julio, Webster, Milner, Dahoud, Lallana, Buonanotte, Adingra.
Newcastle (4-3-3) Pope; Trippier, Schar, Burn, Targett; Tonali, Bruno, Joelinton; Almiron, Isak, Gordon.
Substitutes: Dubravka, Lascelles, Hall, Livramento, Barnes, Murphy, Anderson, Longstaff, Wilson.
Preamble
It’s been a dog of a week for Newcastle. They were mugged by Liverpool, irked by the Carabao Cup draw and mercilessly trolled by the Champions League draw. Eddie Howe wouldn’t have minded a nice easy away game to restore some of the good vibes of 5.15pm last Sunday; instead Newcastle are off to Brighton, whose unique attacking verve would test any team in the world.
The upside is that it would be a very good game to win, especially as Newcastle have a decent run of Premier League fixtures (if not Champions League) after the international break.
Brighton also suffered an unwelcome reality check last weekend, when David Moyes’ West Ham did a classic number on them at the Amex Stadium. Their life is about change even more than Newcastle’s, with their first European campaign beginning against AEK Athens on 21 September, so they’d like to put as much credit as possible in the Premier League bank before then.
In the last few days Brighton have signed Ansu Fati on loan from Barcelona, though he isn’t involved today. Nor is the Cameroon midfielder Carlos Baleba, who joined from Lille and will move to a Big Seven club for £200m in the summer of 2025.
Kick off 5.30pm.