{"id":665981,"date":"2026-03-04T13:00:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T18:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=665981"},"modified":"2026-03-04T13:19:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T18:19:42","slug":"brighton-vs-arsenal-team-news-confirmed-lineups-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/03\/04\/brighton-vs-arsenal-team-news-confirmed-lineups-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Brighton vs Arsenal Team News and Confirmed Lineups for March 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arsenal continue their march towards a historic quadruple. On March 4, the Gunners take on Brighton in the Premier League<\/span><\/a>. Mikel Arteta\u2019s men will be high on confidence following their impressive wins over Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea. They have plenty of big games coming up, but three points is a must for Arsenal<\/span><\/a> to maintain their advantage over Manchester City. Brighton have won their last two league games and have proven in previous years that they can upset the best teams. Here are the confirmed lineups for Brighton vs Arsenal and the latest team news.<\/p>\n

Premier League: Brighton vs Arsenal News and Confirmed Lineups<\/span><\/h2>\n

Brighton Team News<\/h3>\n

During the pre-match press conference<\/span><\/a>, Brighton boss Fabian Hurzeler said he was \u201cconfident\u201d Yasin Ayari would be fit to face Arsenal after returning to training. Hurzeler also said: “There are no new big injury concerns,” but “some small issues” may stop “one or two players” from returning.<\/p>\n

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The Brighton manager also teased some changes to the starting XI, saying they “need fresh legs” and “players with a lot of energy” against the Gunners.<\/p>\n

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Arsenal Team News<\/h3>\n

In their pre-match press conference<\/span><\/a>, Mikel Arteta discussed Kai Havertz, and said, \u201cSo he’s done a part of the session, we will have to wait and see whether he’s available and in which condition. The rest I don\u2019t think there will be anybody else.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Gunners boss confirmed: \u201cBen (White) is not available.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Arteta also teased a huge boost for the Gunners, with the potential return of Martin Odegaard, saying: \u201cWe will see.\u201d When quizzed further on his status, Arteta said: \u201cYeah, we have to wait and see how comfortable he is to do certain actions.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Arsenal boss also gave a positive update on Declan Rice: \u201cHe was much better today. Obviously, we haven’t really trained because we have only two days to prepare the game. So, hopefully, it’s going to be better tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brighton Confirmed Lineup<\/h3>\n

Brighton:\u00a0<\/strong>Verbruggen, van Hecke, Georginio, Hinshelwood, Baleba, Boscagli, Mitoma, Kadioglu, Gomez, Wieffer, Gross.<\/p>\n

Subs: <\/strong>Steele, Minteh, Welbeck, Milner, Ayari, De Cuyper, O’Riley, Veltman, Howell.<\/p>\n

Arsenal Confirmed Lineup<\/h3>\n

Arsenal<\/strong>: Raya Timber, Mosquera, Gabriel, Hincapie, Zubimendi, Rice, Eze, Saka, Martinelli, Gyokeres.<\/span><\/p>\n

Subs<\/strong>: Arrizabalaga, Jesus, Norgaard, Trossard, Madueke, Havertz, Calafiori, Lewis-Skelly, Dowman.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Arsenal continue their march towards a historic quadruple. On March 4, the Gunners take on Brighton in the Premier League. Mikel Arteta\u2019s men will be high on confidence following their impressive wins over Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea. They have plenty of big games coming up, but three points is a must for Arsenal to maintain […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4106,"featured_media":659993,"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":[30,8,1265,3,1831],"tags":[32547,32650],"class_list":["post-665981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-arsenal","category-brighton-and-hove-albion","category-premier-league","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\/665981","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=665981"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":666000,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665981\/revisions\/666000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}