Brighton & Hove Albion

Manchester City beat Brighton & Hove Albion 4-3 on penalties after a 2-2 draw at the Etihad Stadium. Brighton had 17 shots to City's 13 and 6 on target to 3, but City scored from two of their three.

Aston Villa's Nicolas Jackson scored twice to stop Manchester City's perfect league run, and Arsenal's 2-0 win over Everton later on Saturday took them level with City on 21 points. All twenty clubs were in…

Eight rounds in, the biggest surplus of goals over chances belongs to Chelsea, who have scored 17 from 9.81 expected, 7.19 more than the chances were worth, and who host Manchester United at 12:30 on Saturday.…

Liverpool beat Brighton and Hove Albion 2-0 at Anfield. Groß scored an own goal in the 17th minute and Isak scored in the 21st, and neither side scored again. Brighton had 64 per cent of possession and 17…

Diego Gómez scored from the halfway line as Brighton & Hove Albion beat Crystal Palace 5-0, and Manchester City won their seventh Premier League game in seven, 3-2 against Ipswich Town.

Seven rounds in, one club has opened the widest gap between what its results say and what its chances say. Brighton have scored 23 goals and conceded five, which is plus 18 on goal difference, while their…

Six rounds in and the Premier League has handed out its two cleanest opposites. Chelsea have scored 15 goals from 7.87 expected, a surplus of 7.13 and more than two goals clear of anyone, and Nottingham Forest…

Manchester City won 3-0 at Anfield, their first match since being found guilty of breaching Premier League financial regulations.

Five rounds in and the Premier League has stopped for three weeks, which is long enough for a table to harden into a story. Manchester City have won five from five and lead by three points; Arsenal, the…

Arsenal had won nine Premier League matches in a row. Brighton were three up on them by the 57th minute.

Brighton's 125th anniversary celebration comes with Arsenal in town, but the party sits on top of a decade the club nearly didn't survive. This piece explains how a ground sale, a forced ground-share 70 miles…

Manchester City spent more than 70 minutes of a Manchester derby a man down, scored once, and left Old Trafford level with Arsenal at the top.

Four rounds is where a Premier League table starts to look like it means something, and this one has two clubs on twelve points from twelve, Arsenal and Manchester City, followed by two clubs on eight, Leeds…

Matchweek one of the Premier League ran from Friday 21 to Monday 24 August. All ten games are reviewed here, along with a first table in which the club sitting top and the club sitting bottom were on the same…

Manchester United have finally landed the midfielder they chased for almost a year, but the version of Carlos Baleba arriving at Old Trafford is not the one who first turned their heads. This article explains…

Can Carlos Baleba give Manchester United the running and defensive reach their reshaped midfield needs? The possible move carries an obvious appeal, but continuing will explain why recent doubts around his…

Could Danny Welbeck give Chelsea the experience they are seeking without further complicating an already crowded forward line? This article explains why the potential move fits a changing recruitment approach…

James Milner's retirement announcement is not simply the end of a playing career. It is the closing chapter of one of English football's most disciplined and quietly extraordinary stories. This piece traces…

Brighton dominated for long stretches at Elland Road, only to be undone by a catastrophic defensive error in the sixth minute of added time. This piece examines how one moment of sloppiness unravelled a…

Brighton and Hove Albion have agreed a new long-term contract with head coach Fabian Hürzeler, ending weeks of Bundesliga speculation and anchoring the club's most ambitious season in recent memory. We look at…

With Newcastle sitting 14th in the Premier League and questions circulating about the direction of their Saudi-backed ownership, Eddie Howe has broken cover following a high-level two-day summit with the…

Liam Rosenior's Chelsea reign is in genuine jeopardy following a 3-0 thumping at Brighton that left the club without a league goal in five consecutive matches, their worst such run in 114 years. This piece…

Brighton produced a commanding 3-0 victory over Chelsea at the Amex on Tuesday evening, compounding a crisis that has now seen the Blues go five consecutive league games without scoring, a run not witnessed…

Tottenham were 13 minutes from climbing out of the Premier League's bottom three when Brighton substitute Georginio Rutter shattered those hopes in the fifth minute of stoppage time. This report examines what…

The M23 derby between Crystal Palace and Brighton is one of English football's most fiercely contested yet underappreciated local rivalries. This piece traces how the balance of power has shifted dramatically…