Wolves team news: Veltman ruled out

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Albion will be aiming to secure their third win of the Premier League season at Molineux on Sunday.

Charlie Hanson

2025-10-02T10:10+01:00

Joel Veltman suffered a small calf issue during the 3-1 win over Chelsea.

Albion will be looking for their fifth consecutive win at Molineux when they play Wolves on Sunday, kick-off 2pm.

Team news

Albion: At his pre-match press conference head coach Fabian Hurzeler said: 'Joel Veltman has a small calf issue and he won’t be available. Kaoru Mitoma has an issue with his ankle and he is being monitored on a day-to-day basis. Jack Hinshelwood is progressing well and hopefully we will see him soon after the international break. In terms of Joel, we have options in that position with Max [De Cuyper] and Ferdi Kadioglu.'

Wolves: Vitor Pereira has no fresh injury concerns for this fixture.

Their last line-up

☝️ One change from midweek
➡️ J. Gomes in for Bellegarde

Our team to face @SpursOfficial.

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— Wolves (@Wolves) September 27, 2025

Wolves picked up an impressive point at Tottenham last weekend, with only a 90+4th minute equaliser from Joao Palhinha denying Vítor Pereira's team all three points.

Match facts

Wolves have won just two of their 14 Premier League games against Albion (D6 L6) and are winless in their last seven (D2 L5) since a 1-0 triumph in December 2021 under Bruno Lage.

Albionhave won each of their last four league visits to Wolves; the only sides the Seagulls have ever won 5+ successive away games against in their league history are Grimsby Town (5 from 1985 to 1992) and Wolves themselves (6 from 1979 to 1991).

Only against West Ham (31) have Brighton scored more Premier League goals than they have against Wolves (27), with their average of 1.9 goals per game against Wolves their joint-best of any opponent they’ve faced more than twice in the competition.

Wolves have lost their first three home Premier League matches this season – they could be the first side in top-flight history to lose their opening four at home in consecutive seasons, having done so in 2024-25.

Wolves are winless in their last ten Premier League games (D2 L8), with a 94th minute João Palhinha strike denying them their first win of the season last time out against Spurs. They’ve already lost at home to Brighton in this run, going down 2-0 in May.

Brighton have kept just one clean sheet in their last 18 Premier League games, with that coming in a 2-0 win at Wolves in May. Indeed, the Seagulls are one of just four teams without a clean sheet so far this term along with Wolves, Nottingham Forest and Manchester United.

Brighton have won more points from losing positions than any other side in the Premier League this season (6), coming from behind to beat Man City and Chelsea. Meanwhile, only Brentford (8) have dropped more points from winning positions than Wolves (5).

Wolves have had fewer big chances than any other side in the Premier League this season (4); however, they’ve scored with all four of them, giving them the only 100% big chance conversion rate so far.

Wolves have made more starting XI changes than any other side in the Premier League this season (24). They made nine changes in their last match against Spurs, the earliest into a season a team has made 9+ changes to their starting lineup (MD6).

Last time out against Chelsea, Brighton forward Danny Welbeck scored in his 17th different Premier League campaign, with only four players netting in more (Ryan Giggs 21, Paul Scholes 19, Frank Lampard 18, James Milner 18). Meanwhile, his six goals against Wolves are his joint-most against an opponent in the competition.

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