Brighton & Hove Albion — Crystal Palace 5:0, 18 October: match result

match finished Premier League · Matchday 7 Sunday 18 October · 13:00 UTC

Brighton & Hove Albion 3th · 16 pts WLWWW

5 : 0 1st half 3:0

Crystal Palace 15th · 7 pts LLLWD

Amex Stadium · referee R. Jones

Match predictionValue

Brighton & Hove Albion to avoid defeat

87% · Brighton & Hove Albion are unbeaten in 5 games

Prediction landed. We predicted “Brighton & Hove Albion to avoid defeat”, and the match finished 5:0.

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our forecast this is how the model saw the match before kick-off

Brighton & Hove Albion 61% draw 22% Crystal Palace 17%

The model was right

The most likely outcome was Brighton & Hove Albion win, and the match finished 5:0. Fans backed Brighton & Hove Albion win — they got it right.

fans 55 votes

Brighton & Hove Albion 70% draw 11% Crystal Palace 19%

Voting closed at kick-off

Match events

full timeline

J. Canvot own goal 1-0 4'

D. Gomez assist: O. Boscagli 2-0 7'

Y. Ayari assist: C. Kostoulas 3-0 10'

P. Gross 29'

D. McNeil for Q. Timber 46'

C. Kostoulas 4-0 49'

D. Kamada 51'

J. Lerma for H. Ahanor 53'

E. Nketiah for Y. Pino 61'

J. Mateta for J. Larsen 61'

C. Andres 64'

J. Hinshelwood for P. Gross 71'

G. Rutter for C. Kostoulas 71'

W. Hughes for D. Kamada 81'

J. Hadjam for O. Boscagli 81'

M. Yalcouye for Y. Ayari 81'

J. Hinshelwood 5-0 84'

M. Svoboda for L. Dunk 90'

Line-ups

starting eleven and bench

Brighton & Hove Albion 4-2-3-1 3-4-2-1 Crystal Palace

Bart Verbruggen  
Ferdi Kadıoğlu  44 Luka Vušković  5 Lewis Dunk  21 Olivier Boscagli  
Pascal Groß  14 Chema Andrés  
Diego Gómez  26 Yasin Ayari  29 Maxim De Cuyper  
Charalampos Kostoulas  

Jørgen Strand Larsen  
Daichi Kamada  10 Yéremy Pino  
Anan Khalaili  20 Adam Wharton  23 Quinten Timber  3 Tyrick Mitchell  
Jaydee Canvot  26 Chris Richards  21 Honest Ahanor  
Walter Benítez  

Brighton & Hove Albion bench

20Costinha
10Georginio Rutter
15Ibrahim Osman
8Jack Hinshelwood
3Jaouen Hadjam
23Jason Steele
35Malick Yalcouyé
33Matt O'Riley
30Michael Svoboda

Crystal Palace bench

24Darío Osorio
11Dwight McNeil
9Eddie Nketiah
7Ismaïla Sarr
14Jean-Philippe Mateta
8Jefferson Lerma
31Remi Matthews
19Will Hughes
30Óscar Mingueza

Match stats

20 metrics for the full match

57%Possession43%

17Shots5

9Shots on target1

4Shots off target3

4Blocked shots1

8Shots inside box4

9Shots outside box1

127Attacks64

47Dangerous attacks20

8Corners5

2Offsides2

13Fouls11

2Yellow cards1

1Saves5

516Passes384

440Accurate passes301

13Free kicks15

9Throw-ins16

3Goal kicks9

0Penalties0

Brighton & Hove Albion

Crystal PalaceThe source gives no per-half split — only totals for the match

How the match went

text generated from our data

Brighton & Hove Albion and Crystal Palace met on matchday 7 of the Premier League on 18 October at Amex Stadium. Final score — 5:0.

Brighton & Hove Albion sit 3th on 16 points after 9 matches (6 wins, 1 draw, 2 losses), 6 matches without conceding. Crystal Palace sit 15th on 7 points after 9 matches (2 wins, 1 draw, 6 losses), winless in 3 matches.

Of the last 2 meetings Brighton & Hove Albion won 0, Crystal Palace won 1, with 1 more meeting drawn. Aggregate score — 0:1.

Season form

all competitions of the season

Brighton & Hove Albion last five Crystal Palace

WLWWW form LLLWD

9 Matches 9

6 — 1 — 2 Wins — draws — defeats 2 — 1 — 6

24 — 7 Scored — conceded 9 — 21

2.11 Points per game 0.78

2.67 Goals scored per game 1

6 Clean sheets 1

1 Failed to score 5

unbeaten in 1 Current streak winless in 3

Brighton & Hove Albion at home: 4 matches, 3 wins, 1 draw, 0 losses, goals 13—1, 2.5 points per match.

Crystal Palace away: 5 matches, 1 win, 1 draw, 3 losses, goals 3—11, 0.8 points per match.

Head-to-head

2 matches in our database

0 Brighton & Hove Albion wins 1 draw 1 Crystal Palace win goals 0:1 Brighton & Hove Albion — Crystal Palace

08/02/2026	Brighton & Hove Albion — Crystal Palace	0:1	Premier League
09/11/2025	Crystal Palace — Brighton & Hove Albion	0:0	Premier League

League table

after the match

#	Team	P	W	D	L	Goals	Pts
2	Manchester City	10	7	0	3	21—13	21
3	Brighton & Hove Albion	9	6	1	2	24—7	19
4	Chelsea	9	5	1	3	19—15	16
…
18	Manchester United	9	1	4	4	10—15	7
19	Crystal Palace	9	2	1	6	9—21	7
20	Sunderland	9	1	2	6	7—17	5

Full Premier League table

Brighton & Hove Albion — Crystal Palace, 18 October 2026, 13:00 UTC : score 5:0