WSL preview: Albion host Man City

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Albion face the Cityzens on Sunday.

Heather Miller

2025-03-30T06:00+00:00

Jelena Cankovic strikes the ball in training. 📸 Paul Hazlewood

Albion will be aiming to maintain their unbeaten record at home when they welcome Manchester City to Broadfield Stadium on Sunday, kick-off 2pm.

Team news

Dario Vidosic confirmed Bruna Vilamala is making positive progress and back in training with the squad. The head coach said there are no other injuries since our match at Leicester City last weekend.

Dario Vidosic's thoughts

Stats and facts

Albion remains one of three teams still unbeaten at home in the Women's Super League this season W 4 D4 - along with Chelsea and Manchester United), though they have drawn each of their last three on home turf.
Manchester City have won all five of their away games against Albion in the Women's Super League by an aggregate score of 25-3; the Citizens' rate of five goals per away game against the Seagulls is the best of any club to travel to another 5+ times.
Albion have won just one of their 12 WSL meetings with Manchester City (D1 L10), a 1-0 away win in November 2023.
Manchester City have lost five Women's Super League games this season (W10 D2), only suffering more losses in a campaign of the competition in their inaugural season back in 2014 (P14 W6 D1 L7).
Fran Kirby scored all six of the penalties she had taken in the WSL (3 for Chelsea, 3 for Brighton), which is the joint-best 100% conversion rate from the spot in the competition (Rachel Daly also 6/6).
Manchester City have failed to win their last two WSL matches (D1 L1), despite taking a 1-0 lead in both; the Citizens last went on a longer winless run in the competition in October 2021 (D1 L3). Meanwhile, only four teams in WSL history have scored first in three successive matches without winning any.
Dario Vidosic remains unbeaten in his eight WSL home games as a manager (W4 D4) with only Jonas Eidevall (14), Gareth Taylor (11) and Joe Montemurro (11) embarking on a longer run at home from the start of their Women's Super League career (Chelsea's Sonia Bompastor is also on eight).
Against Chelsea last time out, Manchester City's Kerolin had the most shots (4) and touches in the opposition box (9) and created the second most chances(2) of any City player, while scoring their only goal of the game. The Brazilian was the first player in WSL history to record each of those numbers in a game against the reigning champions.
After winning five of their first eight WSL games this season (D1 L2), Brighton have since won only one of their last nine league matches (D3 L5, with no team winning fewer games than the Seagulls since December (1 - level with Crystal Palace and Aston Villa).