England League Cup---Arsenal VS Brighton Hove Albion Prediction

Arsenal VS Brighton Hove Albion    Livescore / H2H stats and Live Streaming
Time:30-10-2025 03:45 Thursday
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Fast-forward to May, and EFL Cup glory but nothing else may go down as a blot on Mikel Arteta's Arsenal notebook, but the North London giants currently have the look of a team who could very well compete on all fronts in the coming months.

Not since 1993 have the Gunners hoisted the League Cup aloft - falling short in a few finals and semi-finals since then - but the extraordinary squad depth at Arteta's disposal puts the hosts in an extremely strong position to challenge for mid-season silverware.

Arsenal did not have it all their own way against Port Vale in the third round of the 2025-26 tournament, but goals from Eberechi Eze and Leandro Trossard sufficed for a 2-0 win, before the former's solitary strike took down former club Crystal Palace in Sunday's Premier League London derby.

Whatever transpires on Wednesday evening, Brighton have already etched their name into the EFL Cup annals, having become the first side in the history of the competition to win back-to-back games by six goals or more.

The soaring Seagulls firstly obliterated Oxford United 6-0 before remarkably putting another sextet of goals past Barnsley without reply - four of their strikes on the evening came via Diego Gomez, the first player to score that many in an EFL Cup away game since Julio Baptista for Arsenal against Liverpool in 2007.

However, the fourth round has been Brighton's kryptonite for the best part of five decades; the visitors have failed to make the quarter-finals of the EFL Cup since the 1978-79 edition and have been eliminated at the last-16 stage four times in the last five seasons.

Match Prediction:
With no European football to factor in this season. Brighton can afford to go strong in North London, where a rotated Arsenal side could finally concede their fourth goal of the season.

However, even a second-string and injury-hit Arsenal team should be able to capitalise on the visitors' defensive deficiencies - especially with a few players bidding to prove a point - and Arteta's men ought to just about do enough for a quarter-final spot.