H2H: Brighton & Hove Albion vs Wolverhampton Wanderers - Prediction (Premier League

H2H: Brighton vs Wolves – Comparison.

Neal Maupay has been Brighton’s first goalscorer in all four PL matches he’s found the net, however Wolves are unbeaten when Pedro Neto has scored this PL campaign (W3, D1). At the end of 2020, away sides had won 38.06% of PL games played this season, marginally more than home sides (36.77%).

Brighton Insights.

Winless in seven matches, Brighton sit precariously close to the drop zone after losing 1-0 at home to Arsenal in their final game of 2020, capping off a year where they managed just one Premier League (PL) home victory – the lowest-ever tally of any team in a single calendar year (excluding promoted and relegated teams that don’t play a full calendar year of PL fixtures). With Brighton registering a score-draw in their last four top-flight matches of a new year (at all venues), it could be more of the same here. The hosts have now failed to score over 1.5 goals in six straight PL home games (D4, L2), which has also been the case in four of the last five home H2Hs too (W2, D2, L1). In fact, 50% of their PL home games this season have been goalless at HT, contributing to a low average of 2.38 match goals per fixture here.

Wolves Insights.

Wolverhampton Wanderers continued their slide down the table as they recorded a ninth consecutive PL game without a clean sheet. Just two wins during that period spells trouble (W2, D2, L5), as does a horrendous record in their first top-flight game of a new year, with Wolves losing their last five such games, and last winning back in January 1981. In fact, Wolves are currently on the verge of losing four consecutive PL away games for the first time since 2011/12 – a season that they finished bottom! However they did win all three PL road trips this season in which they scored first.