Brentford team news: Gruda and Hinshelwood back, Mitoma a doubt

Main Club Sponsor

TICKETS

SHOP

Albion could make it ten unbeaten in the league at the Amex on Saturday.

2025-11-21T10:55+00:00

Jack Hinshelwood has played 53 first team games for Albion. 📷 by Paul Hazlewood.

Albion take on Brentford at the Amex on Saturday knowing a win could take them into the top five in the Premier League.

Team news

Fabian Hurzeler provided an update on Solly March, James Milner, Adam Webster and Kaoru Mitoma in his press conference on Friday.

The German also confirmed that Yasin Ayari, Brajan Gruda and Jack Hinshelwood are all in contention this weekend.

On Solly March, "He is getting really close. It's only a question of two or three weeks maybe until we see him back. This will be exciting for me, for us, for him, to see him back in our group. He’s been out for a long time and we are all looking forward to having him back."

On Adam Webster and James Milner, "James is out for the next two or three weeks. Adam is long term."

On Kaoru Mitoma, "It's not an easy thing to predict. In the last international break I said it's just a question of two or three weeks. But now he's getting close. He has to handle the pain, so it's not a big issue, everything is healed, so he should be fine. We just have to see how he can handle the pain."

Their last line up

Your Bees to face Newcastle 🐝 pic.twitter.com/Q2L6GIeoeT
— Brentford FC (@BrentfordFC) November 9, 2025

Brentford made it four wins from their last six Premier League games as they beat Newcastle 3-1 win at home.

Match stats

After winning their first two Premier League games against Brentford in the 2021/22 campaign, Brighton have won just one of their last six against the Bees (D3 L2).

Brentford are winless in all four of their Premier League away games against Brighton (D2 L2), with their last win at the Seagulls coming in the Championship in September 2016 (2-0).

Albion's final home game of 2024 sees Brentford visit the Amex. Highlights in partnership with @mpbcom. Buy, sell and trade used camera gear. https://bit.ly/MPB457

Brighton remain unbeaten in their last nine Premier League games at the Amex Stadium (W5 D4) since a 0-3 defeat to Aston Villa in April. Indeed, since the start of last season, the Seagulls have only lost three of their 24 home league games (W11 D10); the only ever-present sides with fewer top-flight home defeats in this time are Arsenal, Aston Villa and Liverpool (all 2).

Brentford have lost four of their five away games in the Premier League this season (W1), more than their final 14 on the road in 2024/25 (W7 D4 L3). After their 0-2 defeat to Crystal Palace, the Bees could lose back-to-back away league games without scoring for the first time since April 2023.

Brighton have kept a clean sheet in both of their last two Premier League games, last doing so three matches in a row in August 2022 under Graham Potter.

After only winning two of their first seven Premier League games of the season under Keith Andrews (D1 L4), Brentford have since won three of their last four (L1), scoring 2+ goals in each of those wins.

Brighton have forced 101 high turnovers in the Premier League this season, 20 of which have resulted in a shot. These are both league-high tallies in the competition in 2025/26.

This will be Fabian Hürzeler’s 50 Premier League match in charge of Brighton (P49 W20 D17 L12 to date), while aged 32 years and 269 days he will become the youngest manager ever to reach 50 games in the competition, surpassing Chris Coleman’s record set in September 2004 (34y 107d).

Brighton’s Yankuba Minteh has made more carries into the opposition’s penalty area (35) than any player in the Premier League this season. Minteh has also made 36 carries ending with a take-on in the competition this term, second only to Jérémy Doku (41).

Only Erling Haaland (14) has more Premier League goals this season than Igor Thiago (8), with the Brazilian scoring six goals in his last six appearances in the competition. Indeed, his eight goals are the joint-most by a player in Brentford’s first 11 games of a Premier League campaign, along with Ivan Toney in 2022-23 and Bryan Mbeumo in 2024-25.

Match officials