Fulham team news: Mitoma available and options to replace Lamptey

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A look ahead to Saturday's action at the Amex.

2025-03-07T11:00+00:00

Kaoru Mitoma came off with cramp in the win at Newcastle but is available for the visit of Fulham.

Albion will be looking to extend their winning run to six games in all competitions when they take on Fulham this Saturday, kick-off 3pm.

Team news

At his pre-match press conference Fabian Hurzeler confirmed he had no new injuries to contend with and the squad will be similar to last Sunday's game.

He said, "Kaoru Mitoma came off with cramp in the last game so he will be an option for tomorrow and the rest of the squad is the same. Matt O'Riley is over his illness but we have to be careful of a small knee issue he has so we will see how training is today [Friday]. Lewis Dunk is getting closer but won't be an option in this game.

"Tariq Lamptey is suspended but we have different options. We played with Mats Wieffer the last time. We played two weeks ago with Jack Hinshelwood, so I'm sure that we have two, three really good replacements. Different profiles, so it will be a different style of play for how they fulfil their positions but I'm sure they will do it in a good way."

Fabian's thoughts on Fulham...

"It's very important that we focus on our journey, and that we really believe in it. Yesterday I received a picture, an image from a mountain, and on a mountain you have always new peaks you have to climb. And that's the goal for us, we have to climb new peaks, we have to do it as individual persons and we have to do it as a group. And that's the main thing for tomorrow because Fulham will be a big challenge.

"They have played an unbelievable season. They play very compact as a team but they have individual quality, so we have to raise our standards. We have to be better than we were in the last weeks, because if you think it will continue like this just by saying it will continue like this, you think wrong."

Match facts

Albion have won none of their nine Premier League games against Fulham (D4 L5) – both the most they’ve faced an opponent without winning and the most Fulham have faced an opponent without losing in the competition.

Fulham have won 3-0 and 3-1 in their last two Premier League games against Brighton. The only team they’ve beaten in three consecutive top-flight meetings while scoring 3+ goals each time is West Ham (between 1965 and 1966).

Albion have won each of their last three Premier League games – only once have they ever won four consecutive top-flight matches, doing so in April/May 1981.

Since losing 7-0 to Nottingham Forest, Brighton have won their last three Premier League games. The only team in English top-flight history to have won four in a row immediately after a 7+ goal defeat are Grimsby Town, who lost 9-1 to Arsenal in January 1931 before winning their next four.

Fulham have won their last three Premier League away games, last winning more consecutively in the top-flight in March/April 1966 (5). Indeed, their six away wins this season is already their second-most in a single Premier League campaign (7 in 2022-23).

Albion have led at half-time in each of their last three Premier League games, only holding a lead at the interval in four consecutive matches once before in the competition (4 in April/May 2022).

Fulham have scored in each of their last 12 Premier League away games, netting exactly twice in each of their last six. It’s their longest run of scoring multiple goals on the road in top-flight history, while only once have they had a longer overall scoring streak (14 between September 1959 and April 1960).

Only Manchester City’s (46.2m) and Arsenal’s (45.3m) open play sequences have started further from their own goal than Albion's (43.8m) on average in the 2024-25 Premier League campaign.

João Pedro has scored the opening goal in our last two Premier League victories and the Brazilian could net in three straight league matches for the first time in his top-flight career.

All nine of Raúl Jiménez’s Premier League goals this season have either put Fulham ahead (6) or drawn them level (3) in the match, the most goals any player has scored with 100% of them doing so this term.

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