West Ham vs Brighton Predictions, Lineups & Betting Tips

West Ham vs Brighton Predictions, Lineups & Betting Tips

Match Details: 30th December | Premier League | London Stadium | 19:30

The final game of 2025 for both sides takes place at the London Stadium as Brighton make the short trip up to East London. Both sides have been struggling for form of late and would both love to pick up a win to end the year on a high.

West Ham have failed to win in their last six games which came back on the 8th of November against Burnley, they've taken the lead in three of those games and gone on to not win any of them, this is something Nuno needs to work on and put an end to if they want to stay up

Brighton haver failed to win any of their last four games, one of them was a 1-1 draw with West Ham. They've struggled to create many chances and have problems with finishing having not found the back of the net in their last two games.

Key Betting Tip: Both teams to score @ 1.60 odds represents excellent value based on the tip provided by our team of in-house tipsters.

West Ham vs Brighton Predicted Lineups

West Ham predicted XI: Areola, Walker-Peters, Kilan, Todibo, Scarles, Magassa, Fernandes, Summerville, Paqueta, Bowen, Wilson

With Diouf and Wan-Bissaka leaving for AFCON they are light in the fullback positions

Brighton predicted XI: Verbruggen, Kadioglu, Dunk, Van Hecke, Veltman, Ayari, Hinshelwood, Mitoma, Rutter, Minteh, Welbeck

Baleba is the only player who is missing due to AFCON for the seagulls, they are also boosted by the return of Mitoma to the starting XI

West Ham vs Brighton Current League Standings

West Ham sit 18th and are in the final relegation place. With teams around them picking up results they've started drifting away from safety as the gap has increased to five points. Having just won three in their 17 league games the Hammers are in big trouble if they don't start picking up wins. They also have the second worse defense in the league as they've conceded 35 goals, only Wolves are worst with 37

Brighton are ninth and have had a mixed first half of the season, with good spells and bad spells they have won six, drawn six and lost five. They are just two points off of seventh their european shout is well within reach but peforamnces on the pitch have to pick up soon

West Ham vs Brighton Head-to-Head Timeline

The last time these two sides met was earlier this month where it finished 1-1 thanks to a Rutter 91st minute equaliser to rescue a point for the Seagulls

Recent head to head results:

• December 2025: Brighton 1-1 West Ham
• April 2025: Brighton 3-2 West Ham
• January 2025: West Ham 0-0 Brighton
• August 2023: Brighton 1-3 West Ham
• March 2023: Brighton 4-0 West Ham

West Ham last five matches:

• West Ham 0-2 Liverpool (Premier League)
• Manchester United 1-1 West Ham (Premier League)
• Brighton 1-1 West Ham (Premier League)
• West Ham 2-3 Aston Villa (Premier League)
• Manchester City 3-0 West Ham (Premier League)

Brighton last five matches:

• Nottingham Forest 0-2 Brighton (Premier League)
• Brighton 3-4 Aston Villa (Premier League)
• Brighton 1-1 West Ham (Premier League)
• Liverpool 2-0 Brighton (Premier League)
• Brighton 0-0 Sunderland (Premier League)

West Ham vs Brighton Predictions

Our advanced algorithm analyses over 200 data points to generate these predictions and has confidence with both teams scoring. Our algorithim has given it a 60% chance of happening

Key Players to Watch: West Ham vs Brighton

Jarred Bowen (West Ham): Mr West Ham is their main threat in attack, he scored last time out vs Brighton, he's scored twice in his last three games

Karou Mitoma (Brighton): For what should be his first game starting back from injury I expect him to be heavily involved in the attack

West Ham vs Brighton Match Facts

Broadcast Details: Unkown

Stadium Information: The London Stadium is hosting this game. It holds up to 62,500 fans but is heavily criticised and is one of if not the worst stadium in the Premier League, due to it's massive bowl shape it lacks an atmosphere and has done a horrendous job replacing the Boleyn

Referee: Michael Salisbury is refereeing this game, having reffed just six games so far this season he averages the sixth most yellows per game out of every ref in the Premier League