Tottenham Hotspur will be eager to build on a solid run of form when they take on Brighton & Hove Albion at the Amex Stadium on Saturday.

The 2025/26 Premier League season resumes this weekend with Gameweek 5. The latest round of fixtures starts with the Merseyside Derby between Liverpool and Everton at Anfield before the action continues with four simultaneous matches, including Brighton & Hove Albion vs Tottenham Hotspur at the Amex Stadium.

Brighton & Hove Albion have endured a typical yo-yo style of results in the first month of the 2025/26 season. The Seagulls have won and drawn two games thus far while playing out a stalemate to kick off the new campaign. Fabian Hurzeler’s men come into Saturday’s clash on the back of a 2-1 defeat to Bournemouth, and the German tactician will demand a better display from his charges.

On the other hand, Tottenham Hotspur could not have asked for a better start to life under Thomas Frank. While the North London club would have been gutted after the defeat to Paris Saint-Germain in the UEFA Super Cup, they have won four of their five subsequent matches, keeping clean sheet in each victory.

The corresponding fixture last season saw Brighton & Hove Albion come from two goals down to beat Tottenham Hotspur 3-2, with Danny Welbeck scoring the match-winning goal. The Hard Tackle looks closer at the encounter ahead of the latest meeting between the two sides.

Team News & Tactics

Brighton & Hove Albion

Fabian Hurzeler has a new injury concern that is hampering his preparations ahead of his side’s latest fixture. The Brighton & Hove Albion manager will be bereft of the services of as many as half a dozen first-team players vs Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday.

Jack Hinshelwood is the latest absentee after he picked up an ankle injury last weekend against Bournemouth. The 20-year-old has joined Adam Webster and Solomon March in the treatment room, with the duo recovering from long-term knee injuries.

Probable Lineup (4-2-3-1): Verbruggen; Veltman, van Hecke, Dunk, Kadioglu; Baleba, Ayari; Minteh, Rutter, Mitoma; Welbeck

Tottenham Hotspur

Probable Lineup (4-3-3): Vicario; Porro, Romero, van de Ven, Udogie; Sarr, Palhinha, Bergvall; Kudus, Richarlison, Simons

Key Stats

• Brighton & Hove Albion completed a Premier League double vs Tottenham Hotspur last season, the only time they have ever won successive league meetings with Spurs. The Lilywhites have lost away to Brighton in the two most recent campaigns, but they have never before lost on three successive visits.
• Brighton & Hove Albion have lost just one of their last ten home Premier League matches (W6 D3), and they are unbeaten in six at the Amex (W3 D3) since a 3-0 defeat to Aston Villa in April.
• Tottenham have won both their Premier League away games thus far in the 2025/26 season by an aggregate score of 5-0; not since November 2020 under Jose Mourinho have they won three consecutive Premier League matches on the road (run of four).
• Brighton & Hove Albion have the lowest PPDA in the Premier League this season (9.5); they have also recorded the most shots following high turnovers, attempting eight from 31 thus far. However, only Chelsea (14) and Manchester City (12) have created more “big chances” in the Premier League this season than Brighton (10), with the Seagulls scoring from four of those opportunities; the eighth-best conversion rate.
• Yankuba Minteh has the highest take-on success rate among players with 10+ attempted in the Premier League this season (65% – 13/20), while only Oscar Bobb (10) has recorded more take-ons in the opposition’s box than Minteh (6).

Player to Watch

Xavi Simons

While Richarlison, Georginio Rutter, and Yankuba Minteh were viable candidates for this section, we have picked Xavi Simons as the Player to Watch for Saturday’s Premier League clash between Brighton & Hove Albion and Tottenham Hotspur at the Amex Stadium.

After assisting on his Premier League debut for Tottenham, Simons has now been involved in eight goals across his last ten top-flight league appearances (G4 A4). The Dutchman has been hot off the blocks in his career in England, and Thomas Frank will turn to the new arrival for game-changing creative output in the final third.

Prediction

Brighton & Hove Albion 1-2 Tottenham Hotspur

It has been hard to get past a resolute Tottenham backline in the 2025/26 season, and that will frustrate Brighton & Hove Albion this weekend. However, a solid defensive display by the home side may frustrate Tottenham after West Ham United showed the template last week.

Saturday’s match has the makings of a closely-contested affair, and the deadlock may remain unbroken until the second half. However, the visitors have the quality to clinch three points, although Brighton will not go down without a fight. The Hard Tackle predicts a 2-1 win for Thomas Frank and his charges.