West Ham vs Brighton | PL | 30.12.25 | Prediction and Match Thread

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WHU: 5/2
Draw: 14/5
Brighton: 11/10

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Well, it's the last game of 2025 in a year that few will look back on with favour or fondness.  Wrapping it up are bogey-side Brighton, who after a last minute outrageous goal in the away fixture cost us a vital victory, will fancy themselves (doesn't everyone) heading to the London Stadium.

It's another of those must win games for West Ham, and if the recovery doesn't actually commence at some point, we're fucked.  

There's been no press conference for this game, so not much to report on player availability wise.  Fullkrug is training with Milan already so he's not available.  Guilherme seems to have been ostracised for some reason despite a moderatly promising last cameo against Liverpool.  And Igor it would appear it's been decided isn't up to task.   Diouf and Wan Bissaka remain at the AFCON tournament.

Predicted Line Up:

Brighton play with a large number of overloads on the ball, and last time out we shifted to a back three quite successfully, so I'd expect to see something similar again in this game (just to get the natives uber-restless when the defensive looking lineup is announced):

Areola

Mavropanos  Kilman  Todibo

Walker Peters    Fernandes   Potts   Scarles

Paqueta 

Bowen   Summerville

Subs: Hermansen, Myers, Golambeckis, Kante, Rodriguez, Magassa, Earthy, Soucek, Wilson

Predicted Result:

It is all starting to feel a bit last chance saloon for West Ham, despite the season still having over half left to run!  Lose this game and all hope will feel lost.  Brighton though seem to be missing some key players, and this presents us a chance at least.  Brighton created almost nothing against us in the first game so I expect that gameplan and pattern to largely repeat...with the outcome to be decided on the basis of how well our Maginot Line holds up to late pressure when Brighton come on strong.

Score: West Ham 1 - 0 Brighton (Bowen)

COYI

[BBondsBootlaces]

Are they following a script.

Same week after week. Paqueta, feign injury, showboat when hard graft is required, give away cheap fouls. Oh and concede the obligatory goal from a corner.

I honestly thought Paqueta was going to try a panenker for the penalty and miss.

[COOL HAND LUKE]

So we bring Summerville on and remove Wilson? 

Is it me..? 

Paq should've gone, he's had his 'good half', I dont see him staying up far enough to be any use to Summerville.
​​Its almost like the sulky Moyes 'self destruction' subs that he was doing just prior to leaving...

[Any Old Iron]

Yes, pathetically weak defending from Areola and Kilman, but now we don’t have a striker on the pitch thanks to this moronic manager. We have no hope. 

[stubbo-admin]

Magassa and fernandes have been good, Bowen had been brilliant.

but we are just so poor defensively they have no chance unless we score 3 or 4.

 

 

Agree with this. You don't feel confident unless we get 4 

[pdcwhu]

Who's they and who's we you cսnt

[goose]

Magassa and fernandes have been good, Bowen had been brilliant.

but we are just so poor defensively they have no chance unless we score 3 or 4.

[stubbo-admin]

Wilson isn't fit for more than an hour. Look at his injury record the last 3 seasons. 

Who should Nuno bring on? We dont have another CF on the books since that weak cսnt German went AWOL and Potter said he didn't need a CF.

We're a better team with Wilson in it, but he's not up to 90 mins.  Should we just play him til he does his hamstring?

What do the sages of WHO think Nuno should do? The Wilson situation is on Potter and Sullivan and Steidten.

[Massive Attack]

Wilson is gassed after 60. 

 

 

Not a chance. Whilst Brighton continue playing on with goalscorer Veltman 33, Dunk 34, Welbeck 35 and Milner 40 on Sunday. 

[Keep dreaming]

We really have to sub Paqueta if we want to keep the lead

And yet we probably need to keep him on if we want to score again!

Right...

[cup of tea]

Single points and 1 point from Fulham and Brighton at home isn't good enough. Nothing less than a win will do otherwise we really are done. 
 

[Jaan Kenbrovin]

This is all on Nuno, trying to park the bus AGAIN.

We have the thickest bunch of players in the PL. We defend like a non league club.

[boleyn8420]

Are you kidding the twat Nuno is the only one to amend. What a cսnt. Sack him now.

[Jasnik]

Ferking shit goalkeeping so weak.

[Metroplex]

NUNO YOU NOB

[zico]

We just can't defend. Far too easy. Taking Wilson off too, what an idiot. He is a focal point who is a nuisance what's he going to do now play Paqueta as a false nine which I've never seen work.

[nychammer]

shit defending from a corner undoes us again.  

and now Summerville for Wilson (when we need a fucking goal)

this one will slip away 

[stubbo-admin]

Wilson is gassed after 60. The boos should be at Sullivan not Nuno for this. 

[cup of tea]

Nuno  

[Sir Alf]

As expected. Defeat nailed on now

[Massive Attack]

Do fuck off Crackhead you clueless cսnt! Taking Wilson off, you mad?!  

[collyrob]

So fucking weak from areola. Absolutely not free out in and way

[twoleftfeet]

An air of inevitability about this. 

[Tomshardware]

This is why we are going down. We can't defend.

[stubbo-admin]

Good game for the neutral....shit game for us.

[goose]

Oh do fuck off Nuno.