{"id":654177,"date":"2025-05-04T13:00:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T17:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=654177"},"modified":"2025-05-02T19:08:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T23:08:44","slug":"brighton-predicted-lineup-vs-newcastle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/05\/04\/brighton-predicted-lineup-vs-newcastle\/","title":{"rendered":"Brighton Predicted Lineup Vs Newcastle United for May 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brighton have four games left of this Premier League season. The first of these is a home tie against Newcastle United. The Seagulls currently sit in ninth, level with Fulham in eighth and just ahead of Bournemouth and Brentford in the race for European football. <\/span>Their<\/span> 3-2 victory over West Ham United last week put them back on track after six games without a win in all competitions. Here is <\/span>our<\/span> Brighton<\/span>\u00a0predicted lineup as they take on Eddie <\/span>Howe’s<\/span> side at the Amex.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Brighton Predicted Lineup vs Newcastle United for Premier League Clash<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\r\n

How Brighton Have Lined Up Recently<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\r\n

Bart Verbruggen carries on his run in goal. Midfielder Mats Wieffer started his second game in a row at right back. After Jan Paul van <\/span>Hecke’s<\/span> injury in the 4-2 defeat to Brentford, Carlos Baleba slotted alongside Lewis Dunk as centre-back. Pervis Estupinan started at left back.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Read More: Brighton Star Defender Linked With Top Premier League Club<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n

Yasin Ayari and Jack Hinshelwood started in the double pivot together. The young Englishman is back in his natural position after playing a lot of football at right back. Danish midfielder Matt <\/span>O’Riley<\/span> played in front of them in an advanced role.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Brighton’s<\/span> two <\/span>main<\/span> wingers <\/span>Kaoru<\/span> Mitoma and Yankuba Minteh <\/span>both<\/span> started<\/span> on the bench.<\/span> They both came on for Simon Adingra and Solly March, who started his first game for Brighton <\/span>since<\/span> 2023. Danny Welbeck started up front for the Seagulls.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Brighton Recent Form & Tactics<\/span><\/h3>\r\n

It was back to winning ways against West Ham for Fabian <\/span>Hurzeler’s<\/span> side. They took the lead through Ayari <\/span>who<\/span> netted his first goal for Brighton. Mohammed Kudus and Tomas <\/span>Soucek’s<\/span> goals put the London club ahead with seven minutes left. Substitute Mitoma levelled in the 89th minute before Baleba scored a screamer to put more misery on former manager Graham Potter.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Read More: Brighton Loan Report: Multiple Players Shine In Top Leagues<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n

Hurzeler stuck with a 4-2-3-1 formation. He kept with Wieffer at right back with Hinshelwood in midfield, who filled in for Baleba <\/span>who<\/span> again impressed at centre back.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

There are more worries defensively for Brighton, with them <\/span>having conceded<\/span> two or more goals in each of their last six league games. They have failed to keep a clean sheet since the end of February. Their high press tactics throughout the season may have added to the goal tally, with players fatigued and teams able to slice through them. Against West Ham, they got their scoring boots back <\/span>with<\/span> Mitoma showing how important to the team he is.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Brighton Injuries and Absentees to Consider<\/span><\/h3>\r\n

Hurzeler <\/span>revealed<\/span><\/a> that van Hecke is raring to go again. The German said:<\/span> “<\/span>He [Van Hecke] trained yesterday <\/span>and<\/span> after the training, he immediately came to me and said he wants to play<\/span>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Joel Veltman and Igor Julio have also recovered from hamstring <\/span>injuries,<\/span> and are in contention to feature in the matchday squad. Tariq Lamptey also returned to the <\/span>squad<\/span> against Brentford, <\/span>a huge<\/span> boost to <\/span>Brighton’s<\/span> defensive options.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

James Milner, Ferdi Kadioglu and Georginio Rutter remain sidelined. Joao Pedro <\/span>is suspended<\/span> after being shown red two weeks ago against Brentford.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Brighton Predicted Lineup vs Newcastle\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\r\n

GK: Bart Verbruggen<\/span><\/p>\r\n

RB: Mats Wieffer<\/span><\/p>\r\n

CB: Jan Paul van Hecke<\/span><\/p>\r\n

CB: Lewis Dunk<\/span><\/p>\r\n

LB: Pervis Estupinan<\/span><\/p>\r\n

CM: Carlos Baleba<\/span><\/p>\r\n

CM: Jack Hinshelwood<\/span><\/p>\r\n

RW: Yankuba Minteh<\/span><\/p>\r\n

AM: Matt O\u2019Riley<\/span><\/p>\r\n

LW: Karou Mitoma<\/span><\/p>\r\n

ST: Danny Welbeck<\/span><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brighton have four games left of this Premier League season. The first of these is a home tie against Newcastle United. The Seagulls currently sit in ninth, level with Fulham in eighth and just ahead of Bournemouth and Brentford in the race for European football. Their 3-2 victory over West Ham United last week put […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5505,"featured_media":653589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1265],"tags":[1590],"class_list":["post-654177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","category-brighton-and-hove-albion","tag-brighton"],"modified_by":"Henry Chung, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5505"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654177"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":654359,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654177\/revisions\/654359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}