West Ham team news: Ayari, Georginio, Mitoma and Watson update

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Albion sit seventh in the Premier League ahead of the weekend's fixtures.

2025-12-05T15:15+00:00

Kaoru Mitoma could be in the squad on Sunday. 📷 by Paul Hazlewood.

Albion have an immediate opportunity to bounce back from Wednesday's home defeat to Aston Villa when they take on West Ham at the Amex on Sunday, kick-off 2pm.

Team news

Fabian Hurzeler confirmed on Friday that Stefanos Tzimas will be out for a long period after injuring his knee during the loss to Unai Emery's team. You can read in full what the manager had to say here.

The head coach also spoke about the likelihood of Yasin Ayari, Kaoru Mitoma, Georginio Rutter and Tommy Watson being available on Sunday.

"I hope that Yasin is available on Sunday. We’re not sure yet, but there's definitely a chance that he's available.

"Kaoru is still an option. Let's see if he's able to train today. He has come back into our training sessions. He had a small setback during a training session, not a big one. So hopefully he can train and then for sure we try to make him available as quickly as possible.

"Georginio should be an option for Sunday. He's back in non-contact training. The same for Tommy. I hope that he will train today with the team. I hope that they're both options."

Their last line-up

Line-up: Locked in 🔒 pic.twitter.com/Wa8yB4e7Zn
— West Ham United (@WestHam) December 4, 2025

The Irons picked up a valuable point from a 1-1 draw with Manchester United on Thursday. Diego Dalot put Ruben Amorin's men 1-0 up at Old Trafford before Soungoutou Magassa equalised in the 83rd minute.

Match stats

Brighton have lost just one of their 16 Premier League games against West Ham (W7 D8), a 3-1 home loss in August 2023.

West Ham have won just 6% of their Premier League games against Brighton (1/16), their lowest win rate against any side they’ve faced more than twice in the competition.

Brighton have scored more Premier League goals against West Ham than they have vs any other side (31), while they’ve only beaten Manchester United (8) more than the Hammers (7) in the competition.

Brighton have won their last two weekend Premier League matches, beating Brentford and Nottingham Forest. The Seagulls haven’t won on three consecutive weekends (Saturday/Sunday) since August/September 2022.

West Ham have won each of their last three Premier League away games played on a Sunday, as many as they had in their previous 27 (D5 L19).

Albion lost 4-3 to Aston Villa in their last Premier League home game, ending a 10-game unbeaten run at the Amex Stadium (W6 D4).

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Brighton have scored more second-half goals than any other side in the Premier League this season (17), including a joint league-high 10 in the final 15 minutes of games.

West Ham manager Nuno Espírito Santo has won just two of his nine Premier League games against Brighton (D5 L2), though his most recent with the Seagulls ended in his joint biggest win in his managerial career (7-0 with Nottingham Forest in February).

West Ham striker Callum Wilson has been involved in eight Premier League goals against Brighton (5 goals, 3 assists), only having a hand in more against Burnley (9) and the Hammers themselves (12).

Against no side has Brighton’s Danny Welbeck scored more Premier League goals than he has against West Ham (6), while only against Everton (10) has he been involved in more than against the Hammers (9 – 6 goals, 3 assists).

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