LIVE – Brighton v Arsenal: Commentary, updates, goals and stats as Saka nets early opener

Arsenal head to Brighton tonight looking to maintain their five-point lead at the top of the Premier League.

Mikel Arteta’s side face another tricky assignment, knowing they cannot afford to slip up with Manchester City breathing down their necks.

The Gunners will face a Brighton side whose successive wins over Brentford and Nottingham Forest have moved them 12th.

The tight nature of the Premier League means the Seagulls still have one eye on claiming a European qualifying spot, starting six points shy of eighth place.

Where to watch Brighton v Arsenal: TV channel, online live stream

Kick-off on Wednesday is at 19:30 (14:30 ET / 11:30 PT). Live TV coverage in the UK is on TNT Sports 2 and the Discovery Plus app.

TNT Sports costs £29.99 a month through Discovery Plus, which includes Eurosport and entertainment and is available on a vast range of devices including smart TVs and gaming consoles.

Brighton v Arsenal stats

• Two of the last nine Premier League meetings between Brighton and Arsenal have been won by the home side (3 draws, 4 away wins), although Arsenal won 2-1 earlier this season. The last time both league fixtures between the two were won by the home team was in 2017/18
• Brighton have won two of their last 11 Premier League matches against Arsenal (D3 L6), both wins coming at the Emirates Stadium, in April 2022 (2-1) and May 2023 (3-0)
• Albion’s two-game run of league victories comes after a run of one win in 13 (D6 L6). The Seagulls last won three successive league fixtures in May 2025
• They have won two of their last four Premier League home games against the team starting the day top of the table (D1 L1), both by a 3-2 scoreline. Both came after their opponents had already won the Premier League title (Man City in May 2021, Liverpool in May 2025)
• Danny Welbeck has 10 Premier League goals this season, matching his best-ever tally, set in 2024/25. One more would make Welbeck the third player to score more than 10 goals in a Premier League season for the very first time while aged 35 or older, after Gary McAllister in 1999/00 (35) and Zlatan Ibrahimovic in 2016/17 (35)
• Arsenal lost two of their first three Premier League trips to Brighton (D1) but haven’t lost any of their five since 2020/21 (W3 D2)
• They are unbeaten in their last 19 evening (19:00 or later) league matches (W14 D5) since a 2-0 home defeat to West Ham in December 2023
• All three of those games so far in 2026 have finished level (0-0 vs Liverpool, 1-1 vs Brentford, 2-2 vs Wolves)
• Between August and December in the Premier League this season, Arsenal scored 11 goals in nine away games at an average of 1.2 per game. Since the turn of the year they’ve netted 14 in six on the road, which is an average of 2.3 per game
• Of the 20 occasions when Arsenal have gone 1-0 ahead in the Premier League this season, their opener came from either a set-piece or a penalty in 13 of them. That is the joint-most set-piece or penalty opening goals by any side in a single Premier League campaign
• Viktor Gyokeres has been directly involved in six goals in his last seven away games for Arsenal in all competitions (5 goals, 1 assist), having scored twice (no assists) in his first 12 on the road