{"id":662677,"date":"2025-12-27T08:20:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T13:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=662677"},"modified":"2025-12-27T08:57:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T13:57:04","slug":"arsenal-brighton-confirmed-lineups-december-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/12\/27\/arsenal-brighton-confirmed-lineups-december-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal vs Brighton Confirmed Lineups for December 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These are the confirmed lineups for Arsenal vs Brighton at the Emirates. League leaders <a  href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Arsenal\/status\/2004820796271984846\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Arsenal<\/a> face the Seagulls in the Premier League. <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/09\/04\/best-arsenal-players-number-14-jersey\/\" target=\"_self\">The Gunners<\/a> have enjoyed a memorable first half of the season, losing only twice in all competitions. Manchester City and Aston Villa remain hot on the heels of Arteta\u2019s team, making it vital they collect three points against Brighton.<\/p>\n<p>Since losing to Villa, Arsenal have remained unbeaten and have shown a resoluteness to grind out results, which is vital if they are to win the league.<\/p>\n<p>Can Mikel Arteta\u2019s team maintain their position at the top of the table? Or can Fabian Hurzeler\u2019s men cause a shock at the Emirates?<\/p>\n<h2>Arsenal vs Brighton Confirmed Lineups<\/h2>\n<h3>Arsenal Confirmed Lineup<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Arsenal:<\/strong> Raya, Saliba, Hincapie, Calafiori, Zubimendi, Rice, Merino, Odegaard, Saka, Trossard, Gyokeres<br \/>\n<strong>Substitutes:<\/strong> Arrizabalaga, Gabriel, Jesus, Eze, Martinelli, Norgaard, Madueke, Nwaneri, Lewis-Skelly<\/p>\n<h3>Brighton Confirmed Lineup<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Brighton<\/strong>: Verbruggen, Kadioglu, Van Hecke, Dunk, De Cuyper, Hinshelwood, Coppola, Gruda, Ayari, Gomez, Georginio<br \/>\n<strong>Substitutes: <\/strong>Steele, Minteh, Watson, Welbeck, Kostoulas, Milner, Boscagli, Wieffer, Veltman<\/p>\n<h3>Arsenal Premier League Squad<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>David Raya<\/li>\n<li>Kepa Arrizabalaga<\/li>\n<li>Tommy Setford<\/li>\n<li>William Saliba<\/li>\n<li>Cristhian Mosquera<\/li>\n<li>Ben White<\/li>\n<li>Piero Hincapi\u00e9<\/li>\n<li>Gabriel Magalh\u00e3es<\/li>\n<li>Jurri\u00ebn Timber<\/li>\n<li>Riccardo Calafiori<\/li>\n<li>Myles Lewis-Skelly<\/li>\n<li>Martin \u00d8degaard<\/li>\n<li>Eberechi Eze<\/li>\n<li>Christian N\u00f8rgaard<\/li>\n<li>Ethan Nwaneri<\/li>\n<li>Mikel Merino<\/li>\n<li>Mart\u00edn Zubimendi<\/li>\n<li>Declan Rice<\/li>\n<li>Max Dowman<\/li>\n<li>Bukayo Saka<\/li>\n<li>Gabriel Jesus<\/li>\n<li>Gabriel Martinelli<\/li>\n<li>Viktor Gy\u00f6keres<\/li>\n<li>Leandro Trossard<\/li>\n<li>Noni Madueke<\/li>\n<li>Kai Havertz<\/li>\n<li>Andre Harriman-Annous<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Brighton Premier League Squad<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Bart Verbruggen<\/li>\n<li>Jason Steele<\/li>\n<li>Tom McGill<\/li>\n<li>Nils Ramming<\/li>\n<li>Adam Webster<\/li>\n<li>Lewis Dunk<\/li>\n<li>Jan Paul van Hecke<\/li>\n<li>Olivier Boscagli<\/li>\n<li>Ferdi Kadioglu<\/li>\n<li>Maxim de Cuyper<\/li>\n<li>Joel Veltman<\/li>\n<li>Diego Coppola<\/li>\n<li>Charlie Tasker<\/li>\n<li>Freddie Simmonds<\/li>\n<li>Solly Marsh<\/li>\n<li>Brajan Gruda<\/li>\n<li>Jack Hinshelwood<\/li>\n<li>Carlos Baleba<\/li>\n<li>James Milner<\/li>\n<li>Kaoru Mitoma<\/li>\n<li>Diego Gomez<\/li>\n<li>Yasin Ayari<\/li>\n<li>Mats Wieffer<\/li>\n<li>Joe Knight<\/li>\n<li>Harry Howell<\/li>\n<li>Stefano Tzimas<\/li>\n<li>Georginio Rutter<\/li>\n<li>Yankuba Minteh<\/li>\n<li>Tom Watson<\/li>\n<li>Danny Welbeck<\/li>\n<li>Charalampos Kostoulas<\/li>\n<li>Nehemiah Oriola<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(Both squads <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.premierleague.com\/en\/match\/2562065\/arsenal-vs-brighton-and-hove-albion?tab=squads\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Featured Image Credit<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>IMAGO \/ Action Plus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are the confirmed lineups for Arsenal vs Brighton at the Emirates. League leaders Arsenal face the Seagulls in the Premier League. The Gunners have enjoyed a memorable first half of the season, losing only twice in all competitions. Manchester City and Aston Villa remain hot on the heels of Arteta\u2019s team, making it vital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4106,"featured_media":653786,"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":[3,8,1265,30,1831],"tags":[32547,32650],"class_list":["post-662677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","category-arsenal","category-brighton-and-hove-albion","category-news","category-starting-line-up","tag-arsenal-team-news","tag-brighton-team-news"],"modified_by":"Ricky Carroll, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662677","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\/4106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662677"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":662688,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662677\/revisions\/662688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}