Brighton v Cardiff City

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14 Apr 2019
Cardiff v Brighton
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Cardiff City will be hoping to do the double over Brighton & Hove Albion by sealing a win that will revive their hopes of avoiding relegation and deal a blow to the Seagulls' prospects of doing likewise.

Both teams lost at the weekend with Brighton sitting one place and five points above their visitors who are 18th.

Team news 

Brighton's Anthony Knockaert begins a three-match suspension for a straight red card received in Saturday's 5-0 defeat to AFC Bournemouth. 

Pascal Gross and Solly March have been passed fit and are available. 

Did you know?

Brighton have only lost one of their last nine home league matches against Cardiff (W3 D5). They are unbeaten in five encounters with the Bluebirds (W1 D4) since a 2-1 defeat in the Championship in October 2005.

Fifty per cent of Cardiff’s four away wins in the Premier League have come on the south coast, beating Southampton in both 2013/14 and the current campaign.

The Seagulls are unbeaten at home to newly promoted clubs in the Premier League (P4 W2 D2 L0), and have only lost two of their 15 previous top-flight matches against such opposition on home soil (W7 D6 L2).

This will be the seventh managerial league meeting between Brighton's Chris Hughton and Cardiff's Neil Warnock. Hughton has seen his sides keep a clean sheet in five of the previous six fixtures (W4 D1 L1).

Referee: Andre Marriner
Assistants: Scott Ledger, Simon Long
Fourth official: Chris Kavanagh

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