WSL London City Lionesses team news: Symonds fit and ready

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Heather Miller

2025-12-07T06:00+00:00

Maisie Symonds is fit after pulling out of the England U23 squad during the international break. 📸 James Boardman

Albion return to WSL action on Sunday, heading to Bromley to face London City Lionesses, kick off 12 noon.

Just four points separate the two sides, and Dario Vidosic’s squad will be determined to make it back-to-back wins and close the gap.

Team news

Dario Vidosic confirmed that Maisie Symonds will be available despite pulling out the England U23 international camp last week.

He said, "Everything is quite similar as to before the international break. A few of them have come out of their protective boots, just not into football boots. I'm looking forward to maybe after the short Christmas break to hopefully welcoming back a few of them."

The opposition

After a challenging start to their inaugural WSL campaign, London City have found form and now sit sixth in the table with 15 points - four clear of Albion.

Their most recent league outing ended in a 3-1 win over Aston Villa, making it five victories from nine matches.

The last meeting between Albion and Jocelyn Precheur’s side came in 2022 during the League Cup. On that occasion former Albion head coach Melissa Phillips led London City, but the Seagulls claimed a 2-1 win thanks to goals from Elisabeth Terland and Victoria Williams.

Match stats

This will be the fourth meeting between London City Lionesses and Albion in all competitions, with the Seagulls leading the head-to-head 2-1; the last game between the pair came in the 2022-23 League Cup group stage with Brighton winning 2-1 at Princes Park.
Albion have won their last two away league games against newly promoted opposition, as many wins as across their first six such trips in the top-flight (L4). They beat Bristol City 7-3 in 2023-24 and Crystal Palace 1-0 last season.
London City Lionesses have won 15 points from their nine WSL games this season (W5 L4), with Sunderland in 2015 the only newly promoted side to ever win more than that across their opening 10 matches of a campaign (19).
London City Lionesses lost their first home game in the Women’s Super League but have won three in a row since; Manchester United in 2019-20 were the last newly promoted team to win three in a row on home soil, while Sunderland in 2015 are the only ever to win four on the bounce.
No team have committed more errors leading to goals in the Women’s Super League this season than London City Lionesses (4 – level with Everton), conceding two goals and four shots following errors in November.
London City Lionesses have scored 14 goals in the WSL this season with half of those seeing at least one of the scorer or assister aged 22 or under – only Chelsea (12) have more goal involvements by players under the age of 23 in the competition this term than the Lionesses (9).
Only Manchester United’s Ella Toone (5) has recorded more assists in the 2025-26 WSL than Nadine Noordam, who has four assists from just five chances created.
London City Lionesses’ Nikita Parris has been directly involved in eight goals in four WSL starts against Albion (5 goals, 3 assists), boasting her best minutes per goal involvement rate in the competition against the Seagulls (1 every 46 minutes).