Nottingham Forest travels to the south coast for your FA Cup quarter-finals on Saturday evening.
The excitement is excited across the country, which has to do with an exciting conclusion of this year’s competition with only one member of the remaining “Big Six”. Manchester City has already spoiled the party – in 2019 and 2023 – but their fallability of this season means that this year we could get an unknown name on the trophy.
Brighton is one of four teams who can never raise the FA Cup, while Forest has not claimed this piece of silver since 1959.
Nuno Espirito Santo’s team has started a special campaign and is ready to claim a berth of the Champions League via a top 5 finish in the Premier League. Back-to-back victory before the international break leaves her in a strong position, and I overcame Ipswich Town in punishments to continue her FA Cup trip.
Brighton was impressive at City the last time and had to win in a difficult environment to get into the last eight. The seagulls defeated Newcastle in extra time and, as one of the form teams of the Premier League, go into this cup tie. They are unbeaten because they succumbed to a 7-0 racket on the city square almost two months ago.
Here is 90 minutes Guide to the FA Cup quarter-finals on Saturday.
Brighton against Nottingham Forest Head-to-Head record (last five games)
Current form (all competitions)
Brighton | Nottingham Forest |
|---|---|
Man City 2-2 Brighton – 15/03/25 | Ipswich 2-4 Nottingham Forest – 15/03/25 |
Brighton 2-1 Fulham – 08/03/25 | Nottingham Forest 1-0 Man City – 08/03/25 |
Newcastle 1-2 Brighton – 02/03/25 | Nottingham Forest 1-1 (5-4p) IPSWICH-03/03/25 |
Brighton 2-1 Bournemouth – 25/02/25 | Nottingham Forest 0-0 Arsenal – 26/02/25 |
Southampton 0-4 Brighton – 22/02/25 | Newcastle 4-3 Nottingham Forest – 23/02/25 |
country | TV channel/live stream |
|---|---|
United Kingdom | BBC IPLAYER, BBC One |
United States | ESPN+. ESPN app |
Canada | Sportsnet World Now, Sportsnet Now, Sportsnet World, Sportsnet One, Sportsnet Now Plus |
Fabian Hurzeler alleviated his first season in England with a constantly long injury list, and Brighton will be without a number of players for the FA Cup quarter-finals on Saturday.
Many of the current absences of the hosts were in the long run, but Tariq Lampty is a relatively new problem after taking up an ankle injury before it was drawing with the city. Lampey will miss Forest’s visit together with Igor Julio, Jason Steele, Ferdi Kadioglu and James Milner.
Lewis Dunk, Matt O’Riley, Solly March and Joel Veltman are doubts, but there is hope that the international break of this quartet would have given enough time to recover from their respective knocks.
Brighton predicted the line-up against Nottingham Forest (4-2-3-1): Bugge; Veltman, Dunk, van Hecke, Estupinan; Baleba, Ayari; Minth, Pedro, withoma; Welbeck.
The visitors had been injury -free since the majority of the 2024/25, but they had a big blow during the international break when Chris Wood suffered a hip injury when New Zealand booked their place at the 2026 World Cup.
The leading goal scorer from Forest will probably be a long time, but he is already excluded from the game on Saturday. Taiwo Awoniyi will be at the top in his place.
Carlos Miguel joins the wood on the edge. Morgan Gibbs-White should be fresh after she had missed the break for England.
Nottingham Forest predicted the line-up against Brighton (4-2-3-1): Sels; Aina, Milenkovic, Murillo, Williams; Dominguez, Anderson; Elanga, Gibbs-White, Hudson-Odoi; Awoniyi.
Brighton’s revival was quite remarkable since they were beaten up by their upcoming opponents in early February. Despite her long list of absences, Hurzeler jumped his Seagulls team and should have won in the city before the break.
The international slate means that reset is necessary, but this Brighton page will still be determined to avenge the severe defeat in February.
While the forest entered the backrest from victories won in succession, the absence of Wood is huge and Brighton is well placed to use full advantages. Nunos men are not quite as superfluous on their travels.