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Head-to-head

• This is the first top-flight meeting between the two sides, with all previous 26 meetings taking place in the second and third tiers.
• Brighton are unbeaten in six league matches against Burnley, although the last three have been drawn.

Brighton & Hove Albion

• Chris Hughton's side have taken just two points from the past six games.
• Brighton are in danger of losing four successive league games for the first time since December 2011.
• The Seagulls conceded just 13 goals in their opening 14 games of the season but have subsequently let in nine goals in their past three matches.

Burnley

• Burnley have won six of their last eight league matches, as many as they had won in their previous 26 fixtures.
• Sean Dyche's side have conceded 12 league goals, a record only bettered by the two Manchester clubs.
• All but one of the 86 previous teams to have earned at least 31 points from their first 17 games of a Premier League season have ended that season in the top 10; 81 went on to finish in the top six.

Mark Lawrenson
Former Liverpool defender

If the Seagulls sit in and make Burnley take the game to them - and I have no reason to think they won't - it might make things a bit more difficult for Sean Dyche's side. That is why I am going for a draw.

Prediction: 1-1

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Brighton make four changes to the side that lost at Tottenham in midweek.

Glenn Murray, Pascal Gross, Solly March and club captain Bruno return to the Seagulls' starting XI, with all having been substitutes at Wembley.

Taking their places on the bench are Tomer Hemed, Jose Izquierdo, Beram Kayal and Ezequiel Schelotto.

Brighton: Ryan, Bruno, Duffy, Dunk, Bong, Propper, Stephens, Knockaert, Gross, March, Murray.

Subs: Krul, Schelotto, Kayal, Hemed, Goldson, Brown, Izquierdo.

Meanwhile, Sean Dyche makes two changes to the Burnley side that beat Stoke City on Tuesday, with Ben Mee and Charlie Taylor coming in.

Mee is back from a knee injury and captains the side, while Taylor comes in for ex-Brighton left-back Stephen Ward who limped off in the first-half against the Potters with a suspected knee injury.

Kevin Long drops to the bench, while Robbie Brady, Jonathan Walters, Dean Marney and Tom Heaton all remain sidelined.

Burnley: Pope, Bardsley, Mee, Tarkowski, Taylor, Gudmundsson, Cork, Defour, Arfield, Hendrick, Wood.

Subs: Lindegaard, Wells, Lowton, Westwood, Barnes, Long, Vokes.

Hello and welcome to live text coverage as Brighton & Hove Albion entertain Burnley in the Premier League.

Needless to say it's been a pretty good week to be a Clarets fan.

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Tuesday's win over Stoke City took an already impressive season for Sean Dyche's side to new heights with a spot in the Premier League's top four.

Results later in the week meant they dropped to sixth - albeit level on points with Spurs and Liverpool, the two clubs immediately above them.

But the outlook is increasingly less encouraging for Chris Hughton's Brighton, who have now lost their past three league games.

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And despite the Seagulls being 13th in the table, they are just three points above the drop zone.

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