Man City vs Brighton preview, Premier League stats and where to watch

Premier League,
Round 9

Manchester City
MCI

31/10/2026
15:00

Brighton
BRI

Etihad Stadium

Craig Pawson

Where to watch Man City vs Brighton: TV channel, live online streams

Manchester City vs Brighton kicks off at 15:00 GMT on Saturday, October 31 at the Etihad Stadium.

The match is not being shown live on TV in the UK. Highlights will be on BBC One and BBC iPlayer on Saturday.

Here’s the full list of Premier League international broadcasters. 

Man City vs Brighton Premier League preview

Round one went to City, but only just. After edging past Brighton on penalties in the EFL Cup fourth round on Wednesday, Enzo Maresca’s side face the Seagulls again at the Etihad Stadium on Saturday, this time with Premier League points at stake and their big names back in the side.

The cup tie was a rollercoaster. City’s young side twice fell behind, first to a Malick Yalcouye goal after 30 minutes and then to Georginio Rutter’s strike just after half-time.

Mateo Kovacic equalised with a 25-yard strike before the break and Vitor Reis scored his first goal for the club to make it 2-2.

Geronimo Rulli was then the hero in the shootout, saving from Yasin Ayari and Lewis Dunk as City won 4-3 on penalties in front of a record domestic cup crowd of 55,345 at their home.

Saturday’s 2-1 defeat at Aston Villa ended City’s perfect start in the Premier League and was their second loss in four games in all competitions. They have conceded 10 goals in their last five matches.

The good news for Maresca is that Erling Haaland, Elliot Anderson, Gianluigi Donnarumma, Ruben Dias and Josko Gvardiol were all given time off and missed the tie, so should be fresh.

Brighton showed again how dangerous they can be. Fabian Hurzeler’s side start the matchday as Premier League’s top scorers by three goals, although they have now gone three games without a win, drawing at Jablonec in the Conference League and losing 2-0 at Liverpool before the 90-minute stalemate at City.

Recent history suggests this won’t be easy for City. They have now failed to win any of their last five games against Brighton in all competitions, although Albion haven’t kept a clean sheet in their last 19 meetings with City.

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Manchester City vs Brighton team news

Maresca’s first-choice players are expected to return after being rested. Haaland, who scored City’s goal at Villa Park, will lead the line.

Antoine Semenyo remains out with a knee injury and is expected to be sidelined for around another seven weeks. Right-back Matheus Nunes is also a doubt.

Brighton received a major boost on Wednesday with Mats Wieffer and Yankuba Minteh both returning to the squad and coming on as second-half substitutes following injuries.

Ferdi Kadioglu and Chema Andres missed out with hip injuries the pair sustained at Liverpool. Kaoru Mitoma, Evan Ferguson, Stefanos Tzimas, Femi Azeez and Zadok Yohanna remain out.

Man City vs Brighton predicted Premier League line ups

Manchester City: Gianluigi Donnarumma, Abdukodir Khusanov, Ruben Dias, Marc Guehi, Josko Gvardiol, Nico Gonzalez, Mateo Kovacic, Phil Foden, Rayan Cherki, Jeremy Doku, Erling Haaland

Brighton: Bart Verbruggen, Ferdi Kadioglu, Lewis Dunk, Luka Vuskovic, Olivier Boscagli, Pascal Gross, Carlos Baleba, Diego Gomez, Yasin Ayari, Maxim De Cuyper, Charalampos Kostoulas

Manchester City vs Brighton stats, Premier League form

• City won 12 of their first 14 Premier League matches against Brighton (D1 L1) but are winless in their last four (D2 L2)
• They have won their last 10 league matches on Halloween and have 15 wins overall on October 31, which is the most of any team in Football League history
• City could lose consecutive league games for the first time since August 2025, when Brighton were their opponents in the second match
• The Cityzens (16.7) and Brighton (16.2) are the two highest-ranked teams for expected goals in the Premier League this season and the division’s highest scorers, with Brighton on 23 and Manchester City on 20
• With goals in each of their last 24 Premier League games, City are on their longest such run since a sequence between December 2018 and September 2019 (29)
• The only teams to prevent City from scoring in their last 94 home league games are Arsenal, Tottenham (twice) and Liverpool
• Haaland has seven goals in seven Premier League appearances against Brighton, finding the net in each of his last four, although City have failed to win any of those games
• Brighton have never won in 16 away league games against Manchester City (D4 L12), although they have avoided defeat in their last two
• That is the most away games Brighton have played against an opponent without winning and the most home games City have faced an opponent in without losing
• Only Bournemouth (5) have made fewer starting changes in the Premier League this season than Brighton, who also have the second-youngest average starting age this term (25 years, 214 days), behind Newcastle (25 years, 192 days)
• Pascal Gross has created more chances than any other player in the Premier League this season (23), while no player has registered more assists than the German (4)

Man City vs Brighton prediction

Manchester City

2 – 1

Brighton

Brighton want revenge and feel they have unfinished business after having six of the nine attempts between the teams on Wednesday, but their form has slightly tailed off since their spectacular start and a strengthened City side may be able to assert themselves in the same way Liverpool did against the Seagulls last Sunday.

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