{"id":669592,"date":"2026-05-09T05:00:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T09:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=669592"},"modified":"2026-05-08T14:02:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T18:02:55","slug":"brighton-vs-wolves-predicted-lineups-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/05\/09\/brighton-vs-wolves-predicted-lineups-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Brighton vs Wolves Latest News and Predicted Lineups"},"content":{"rendered":"

European football remains the target for <\/span>Brighton & Hove Albion<\/span><\/span> heading into the final weeks of the Premier League season, while <\/span>Wolverhampton Wanderers<\/span><\/span> are looking to finish a difficult campaign on a positive note. Fabian H\u00fcrzeler\u2019s side have been strong at the Amex Stadium despite last weekend\u2019s defeat to Newcastle, and Wolves will need a much-improved defensive display if they are to leave the south coast with a result. With both teams still battling for important objectives, here is the latest team news and predicted lineups.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Brighton vs Wolves: Latest News and Predicted Lineups<\/h2>\n

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Date:<\/strong> Saturday, 9th May
\nVenue<\/strong>: Amex Stadium
\nKickoff<\/strong>: 15:00 GMT
\nLast Meeting<\/strong>: Wolves 1 Brighton 1 (5th October 2025, Premier League)
\nReferee<\/strong>: John Brooks
\nLatest Odds:<\/strong> Brighton 2\/7 Wolves 10\/1
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Brighton Team News<\/h3>\n

Mats Wieffer will miss the Wolves clash as he injured his ankle in last week’s loss to Newcastle. Diego Gomez is also out injured, but Lewis Dunk may be available for selection after returning to training. James Milner and Solly March will be available. Speaking during his pre-match press conference<\/a>, Fabian Hurzeler had this to say regarding his new three-year contract:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cClarity regarding the last three games is crucial. That is why we wanted to finish this (contract negotiation) as quickly as possible, and then we have clarity, because there are always noises at the end of the season, with offers from other clubs.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Wolves Team News<\/h3>\n

Sam Johnstone and Jos\u00e9 S\u00e1 are both unavailable due to injury, meaning that Dan Bentley will be between the sticks again. Ladislav Krej\u010d\u00ed has been back training and may be involved. Hugo Bueno sustained a knock against Sunderland but has passed his fitness test. \u00a0Speaking to the press, Rob Edwards commented<\/a> on the season so far:<\/p>\n

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“It’s been a really difficult season, I knew it coming here. I’m excited about what we can do going forward in the long-term. In this moment, I have to stay quite strong. We’re confident that there’s a good plan in place.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Brighton Predicted Lineup<\/h3>\n

Verbruggen<\/p>\n

Veltman<\/p>\n

Van Hecke<\/p>\n

Boscagli<\/span><\/p>\n

Kadioglu<\/span><\/p>\n

Ayari<\/span><\/p>\n

Gro\u00df<\/p>\n

Minteh<\/span><\/p>\n

Hinshelwood<\/span><\/p>\n

Mitoma<\/span><\/p>\n

Welbeck<\/span><\/p>\n

Wolves Predicted Lineup<\/h3>\n

Dan Bentley<\/p>\n

Mosquera<\/p>\n

S. Bueno<\/p>\n

Toti<\/p>\n

Lima<\/p>\n

J. Gomes<\/p>\n

Andr\u00e9<\/p>\n

H. Bueno<\/p>\n

A. Gomes<\/p>\n

Arokodare<\/p>\n

Armstrong<\/p>\n

Featured Image Credit<\/strong><\/p>\n

IMAGO \/\u00a0<\/span>Every Second Media<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

European football remains the target for Brighton & Hove Albion heading into the final weeks of the Premier League season, while Wolverhampton Wanderers are looking to finish a difficult campaign on a positive note. Fabian H\u00fcrzeler\u2019s side have been strong at the Amex Stadium despite last weekend\u2019s defeat to Newcastle, and Wolves will need a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5441,"featured_media":669601,"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":[1265,30,3,1831,2510],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-669592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brighton-and-hove-albion","category-news","category-premier-league","category-starting-line-up","category-wolves"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669592","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\/5441"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669592"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":669602,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669592\/revisions\/669602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}