Wolves team news: March out for the season

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Albion head into Saturday's game in tenth in the Premier League.

2025-05-09T10:50+01:00

Solly March has made eight Premier League appearances this season. 📷 by Paul Hazlewood.

Albion will look to go three Premier League games unbeaten when they take on Wolves at Molineux on Saturday, kick-off 3pm.

Team news

Kaoru Mitoma has scored nine Premier League goals so far this campaign. 📷 by James Boardman.

Fabian Hurzeler provided the following updates on his squad ahead of the weekend.

"Unfortunately Solly March will be out for the rest of the season. Hopefully he will be back for pre-season. It's not a new injury, it’s just to repair and clean something in his knee.

"Kaoru Mitoma is back on the pitch. He has trained with the team so he will be an option for tomorrow.

"Georginio [Rutter] is doing rehab, he won't be an option for tomorrow, but hopefully we will see him this season.

"James Milner is back on the pitch with the team, but with the rehab coaches. Overall it’s negative and positive feedback on our players."

Fabian's thoughts

On Wolves, "They are impressive [with a] clear style of play. Very good defensively, controlling the space well, very narrow connections to each other and they also use a clear formation. It'll be a big challenge.

On Wolves' qualities: "[Matheus] Cunha is a special player for them. I think every game he plays he's a danger for opponents. But it's not only Cunha, it's the whole team. How they play together, how they perform. They have good connections to each other. Then they have a good striker in [Jorgen] Strand Larsen and they have players who put in good crosses. So overall for me they are not only a good team they're also individual players. So we have to stick together, defend as a team and be brave in possession, and then we have a chance."

Match facts

Having lost just one of their 11 home league games against Albion between 1991 and 2021 (W3 D7), Wolves have now lost each of their last three against the Seagulls at Molineux.

Brighton are unbeaten in their last six Premier League games against Wolves (W4 D2), scoring 18 goals during this run.

Wolves have won each of their last three Premier League home games, as many as in their previous 15 beforehand (D2 L10). They last won four in a row at Molineux in May 2023.

Wolves have scored 51 goals in the Premier League this season, their joint-most in a single campaign, along with 2019-20. They last scored more in the top-flight back in 1979-80 (58).

Brighton have won just one of their last seven Premier League games (D3 L3), beating West Ham 3-2 last month. However, they’ve lost their last two away from home, last losing three in a row in May 2021.

Wolves (62 goals conceded from 439 shots faced) and Brighton (56/395) have conceded a higher share of their shots faced than any other sides in the Premier League this season (14%).

Wolves have an expected goal difference of -13.2 in the Premier League this season (40.8 xG, 54 xG against) – only the three relegated sides have a lower difference in the competition this term.

No team has had more different goalscorers in the Premier League this season than Brighton (excluding own goals), with their 16 scorers their most ever in a campaign in the competition.

Rayan Aït-Nouri has been directly involved in more goals than any other defender in the Premier League this season (11 – 4 goals, 7 assists). He’s the only Wolves defender to have been involved in 10+ goals in a single campaign in the competition.

Joao Pedro is Brighton’s top scorer in the Premier League this season with ten goals, closely followed by Danny Welbeck and Kaoru Mitoma on nine. Only in 1980-81 (Michael Robinson and Gordon Smith) and 1981-82 (Andy Ritchie and Michael Robinson) have they had two players reach double figures in a top-flight campaign.

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