Brighton vs West Ham live stream and match preview, Saturday 26 August, 5.30pm BST
Brighton vs West Ham live stream and match preview
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Brighton are looking to continue their perfect start to the Premier League season with another win on Saturday, where they welcome West Ham to the Amex Stadium. After two 4-1 wins, against Luton and Wolves, the Seagulls are aiming for a repeat scoreline against the Hammers.
David Moyes' side will try everything in his power to stop that from happening, though. After picking up a point against Bournemouth on opening day, West Ham beat Chelsea 3-1 at the London Stadium last weekend to produce a strong start to the campaign.
With Brighton in a rich vein of form and West Ham tricky customers, this match promises to deliver.
Kick-off is at 5.30pm BST. Make sure you know how to watch the Premier League wherever you are.
Team news
Brighton are missing both Jakub Moder and Julio Enciso. Moder has been injured with a long-term knee injury since February, while Enciso picked up a knee injury, too, recently. The extent of his lay-off is unknown, however.
West Ham are only without one player for their visit to Brighton, with Nayef Aguerd suspended after picking up two yellow cards against Chelsea last weekend.
Brighton XI: Verbruggen; Milner, Webster, Dunk, Estupinan; Gross, Gilmour; March, Ferguson, Mitoma; Welbeck.
West Ham XI: Areola; Coufal, Zouma, Ogbonna, Emerson; Soucek, Ward-Prowse; Bowen, Lucas Paqueta, Alvarez; Antonio.
Form
Brighton: WW
West Ham: DW
Referee
Anthony Taylor will be the referee for Brighton vs West Ham. His assistants will be Gary Beswick and Adrian Holmes, with Sam Allison the fourth official. David Coote is the VAR, with Adam Nunn the assistant VAR.
Stadium
Brighton vs West Ham will be played at the Amex Stadium in Brighton, which has a capacity of 30,666.
Kick-off and channel
Brighton vs West Ham kick-off is at 5.30pm BST on Saturday 19 August in the UK. The game is on Sky Sports Premier League and Sky Sports Main Event in the UK.
In the US, kick-off time is 12.30pm ET / 9.30am PT. The match will be shown on NBC in the US. See below for international broadcast options.
VPN guide
Use a VPN to watch Premier League football from outside your country
If you’re out of the country for a Premier League fixture, then you won't be able to watch on your domestic streaming service as usual. The broadcaster knows where you are because of your IP address (boo!) and blocks you from watching it. You can use a VPN to get around that, though, without resorting to illegal feeds you’ve found on Reddit.
A Virtual Private Network (VPN), assuming it complies with your broadcaster’s T&Cs, creates a private connection between your device and t'internet, meaning the service can’t work out where you are and will let you watch. And all the info going between is entirely encrypted, anonymous and safe – and that's a result.
There are plenty of good-value options out there. For the Premier League, FourFourTwo currently recommends:
International Premier League TV rights
• UK: Sky Sports and TNT Sports are the two main players, but Amazon also have a slice of the pie in 2023/24.
• USA: NBC Sports Group are the Premier League rights holders, with the Peacock Premium streaming platform showing all 380 games in the season. A fuboTV subscription also lets you watch every game.
• Canada: The way to watch Premier League football in 2023/24 is fuboTV, which has exclusive rights to all the action.
• Australia: Optus Sport will screen every game of the Premier League season.
• New Zealand: Sky Sport are serving up all 380 games – plus various highlights and magazine shows throughout the week, as well as the Champions League.
