JAKARTA - Arsenal welcome the Carabao Cup with a little relief after a four-point advantage in the Premier League. They will face Brighton & Hove Albion in the Fourth Round of the English League Cup on Thursday, October 30, 2025, early morning WIB, at the Emirates Stadium.
Arsenal have conceded three goals in all competitions this season. Amazingly, they only conceded two on target in the last four games.
However, Brighton, who have beaten Manchester City, Chelsea and Newcastle United this season and scored 14 goals in the last five games, will probably be a tough opponent for the Gunners.
Fabian Hurzeler has never lost to Arteta, with Brighton winning a 1-1 draw both at home and away against Arsenal last season.
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Arteta's difficulties also increased ahead of Brighton. The Carabao Cup match in the middle of the week will signal a large number of player rotations, but the Spanish coach's job becomes even tougher with a series of injuries suffered in a 1-0 win over Crystal Palace on weekends.
Declan Rice, Riccardo Calafiori, Bukayo Saka, and William Saliba are doubtful about appearing against Brighton.
Hurzeler also faces a row of injuries ahead of the match to north London.iron Mitoma and Brajan Gruda missed a 2-4 defeat to Manchester United on the weekend.
The referee's controversial decision resulted in Brighton's five games without losing at Old Trafford, but Hurzeler was reluctant to blame the referee.
Brighton has a one-day rest time longer than Arsenal, but with the most likely rotation of players, it's probably not going to be a decisive factor in this game.
However, Arsenal are seeded in this match. They won the League Cup twice in history, the last time in the 1992/1993 season was under George Graham's tutelage.
The Gunners also have powerful weapons with set pieces that have so far scored 11 goals, the most in the league.
They made it in just nine Premier League games this season, the fastest among any club in league history.
At the defense level, Arsenal also faced the fewest-targeted shot in the league this season (19).
Meanwhile, Brighton has not qualified more than once for the quarter-finals since the 1978/1979 Liga Cup.
However, they only lost once to their last five visits to the Emirates Stadium (3 wins, one draw, and one defeat). That note could be a motivation even though it will not affect their chances of not being seeded.
Player Composition Forecast
Arsenal: Kepa Arrizabalaga; Ben White, Cristhian Mosquera, Piero Hincapie, Myles Lewis-Skelly; Christian Norgaard, Ethan Nwaneri, Mikel Merino; Max Dowman, Gabriel Martinelli; Leandro Trossard
Brighton & Hove Albion: Jason Total; Joel Veltman, Olivier Boscagli, Diego Coppola, Maxim De Cuyper; Carlos Baleba, Yasin Ayari; Charalambos Kostoulas, Georginio Rutter, Diego Gomez; Danny Welbeck
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