Reply With QuoteMATCH FACTS
Head-to-head
- This is their first top-flight meeting. It becomes the 100th different fixture to be played in England's top four divisions.
- Brighton have lost just one of their last 11 league matches against Cardiff (W3, D7), a 1-4 away defeat in 2016.
Cardiff City
- Cardiff have won just once in 15 Premier League matches, drawing three and losing 11.
- They have equalled the club's worst record after 11 fixtures of a league season, last set in 1974 in the second tier.
- The Bluebirds have failed to keep a clean sheet in eight league games, and are two short of conceding 100 Premier League goals.
- They have also failed to score in six of their 11 games this season, a joint-league high with Huddersfield and Southampton.
- Cardiff's shooting accuracy of 26% - hitting the target with 31 of 119 attempts on goal - is the worst in the competition.
- The Bluebirds have completed 1,948 passes, 500 fewer than any other Premier League side, while their completion rate of 61% is also the lowest.
- Cardiff have conceded the first goal in eight league fixtures this campaign, a joint-high with Fulham.
Brighton & Hove Albion
- Brighton have managed just one win in their last 19 Premier League away games (D5, L13).
- They have 14 points after 11 league matches, one fewer than at this stage last season.
- The Seagulls and Manchester City are the only clubs not to have lost a Premier League point from a winning position in 2018-19.
- Glenn Murray's six Premier League goals is bettered only by Eden Hazard, Sergio Aguero and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang on seven.
- Chris Hughton is unbeaten in five meetings with Cardiff manager Neil Warnock, winning four and keeping five clean sheets.
Morrison and Bamba must be undroppable with the mistakes they make
Originally Posted by Baloo
