Brighton roundup: Hinshelwood sets the pace as Albion head to Coventry

Brighton & Hove Albion prepare for their fourth league outing of the campaign sitting tenth in the Premier League, with results evenly split but an attack only Chelsea can match. Here is the club roundup.

Where Albion stand

According to the Premier League table, Brighton have four points from one win, one draw and one defeat, with a goal difference of plus three built on eight goals scored and five conceded. That leaves them level on points with Manchester United but ahead on goal difference, and just a single point behind the cluster of five clubs immediately above them, all on five points. Early pacesetters Manchester City and Arsenal, on nine apiece, are five clear of the Seagulls.

The most striking number is at the top end of the pitch: per the table, only Chelsea, with eight of their own, have scored as often as Brighton. Defensively, of the sides above them, only Chelsea have conceded more than Albion's five.

The story so far

The results data shows a lively opening stretch:

• A 1-1 draw at home to Leeds United
• A 4-3 defeat away to Chelsea in a seven-goal game
• A 4-0 home win over Aston Villa

The Villa victory is the most recent of the three, so Albion head into the weekend on the back of a win.

Who is scoring

According to the scoring data, J. Hinshelwood leads the club's charts with two goals, while L. Vuskovic, M. De Cuyper, M. Yalcouye and P. Gross have one apiece. Between them, those five have contributed six of Brighton's eight goals.

Next up: Coventry, then Arsenal

Brighton travel to the Coventry Building Society Arena on Sunday (2pm kick-off UK time) to face a Coventry City side who, according to the table, prop up the division with no points and no goals from three straight defeats. Bookmakers make the Seagulls favourites at 1.84 — a bookmaker-derived implied probability of 51 per cent for an away win — with the draw at 3.70 (26 per cent) and a home win at 4.14 (23 per cent). On FanTribe, a Brighton win is worth 37 points, with 74 on the draw and 83 on a Coventry victory.

Arsenal then come to the Amex Stadium on Saturday 19 September (3pm UK time), sitting second on nine points with just one goal conceded. The bookmakers again favour the visitors at 1.81 — a bookmaker-derived implied probability of 53 per cent — with Brighton at 4.49 (21 per cent) and the draw at 3.70 (26 per cent). FanTribe's points on offer reflect the size of the task: 90 points for a Brighton win, 74 for the draw and 36 for an Arsenal victory.

FanTribe tracker

FanTribe's club fan data currently lists Brighton's fan count at zero on the platform — a number Seagulls supporters can change by signing up and backing their side ahead of Sunday's trip.