Fulham team news: De Cuyper set to return

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Albion will look to make it five unbeaten in the Premier League.

2026-01-23T11:10+00:00

Maxim De Cuyper wasn't named in the matchday squad for our 1-1 draw with Bournemouth. 📸 by Paul Hazlewood.

Albion take on Fulham at Craven Cottage on Saturday with both teams trying to move into the top half of the table.

Team news

Fabian Hurzeler had positive team news ahead of the game at Craven Cottage, as he expects Maxim De Cuyper to be available again.

"Maxim will be back," the German said in his press conference on Friday. "In general we survived a phase when a lot of players were sick and ill, I hope now that we are in a more stable phase. It seems to be quite good regarding the availability of all the players now."

Their last line-up

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The Cottagers missed the chance to move to within touching distance of a European spot when they were beaten 1-0 at Leeds United. They are a point above Albion in the table.

Match facts

Fulham are unbeaten in all five of their Premier League home games against Brighton (W4 D1), having lost three in a row against them in the Championship beforehand.

Albion have won just one of their 11 Premier League games against Fulham (D5 L5), their lowest win rate against any side they’ve faced more than twice (9%).

Brighton have won just two of their last 18 Premier League away games against London sides (D7 L9), with those wins coming at Spurs in May last season, and Chelsea in September.

Fulham’s 1-0 defeat at Leeds last time out ended their six game unbeaten run in the Premier League. Meanwhile, the Cottagers haven’t failed to score in consecutive league matches since May 2024.

Brighton have won just one of their last nine Premier League games (D5 L3), beating Burnley 2-0 earlier this month. It’s a run that has seen them drop from 5th to 12th in the league table.

Albion have avoided defeat in a league-high eight Premier League games when conceding the first goal so far this season (W3 D5), coming from behind to draw their last two games 1-1 (v Man City and Bournemouth).

Only Aston Villa (180) and Tottenham (178) have had more high turnovers against them than Fulham (162) in the Premier League this season, while at the other end of the pitch the Cottagers have forced fewer high turnovers than any other side (91).

Despite having the fifth youngest average starting XI in the Premier League this season (25 years 242 days), only Burnley (43) have given more starts to players aged 34+ than Brighton (27) this term.

All five of Raúl Jiménez’s Premier League goals have put Fulham one goal ahead in the match this season, the highest such 100% record of any player this term.

No centre back has been involved in more Premier League goals this season than Brighton’s Jan Paul van Hecke (5 – 3 goals, 2 assists), with the Dutchman assisting Babis Kostoulas’s late equaliser against Bournemouth last time out.

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