Brighton enjoyed an impressive start to the Women’s Super League season, and at the start of December were within reach of the Champions League places. <\/p>\n
But since returning from the winter break, the Seagulls have won just two of their seven league games, losing four, including one in which they held a 2-0 lead over West Ham heading into the final 10 minutes, only to lose 3-2 at the Chigwell Construction Stadium. <\/p>\n
While a drop in form has ruled the South Coast side out of European contention, Dario Vidosic’s side still sit firmly in the top half of the WSL table, ahead of London City on goal difference with a game in hand, such was the quality of their start to the season. <\/p>\n
Even though Brighton’s league form has declined in the second half of the season, they have made no mistake in their FA Cup campaign, beating WSL2 side Nottingham Forest and WSL rivals West Ham to reach the quarter-finals. <\/p>\n
To continue their cup run however, the Seagulls will have to do something they’ve never managed in their history and eliminate us from a domestic cup competition. <\/p>\n
But with both relegation and European qualification out of the equation in the WSL, the Seagulls will throw everything they’ve got at trying to reach their first Wembley final. <\/p>\n
last time out<\/h3>\n\n<\/article>\nWhile we should have faced Brighton in February at Broadfield Stadium, the game was called off due to a waterlogged pitch. <\/p>\n
As a result, Sunday’s quarter-final will be our first meeting with Albion since a 1-0 win at Emirates Stadium in October courtesy of an own goal created by Olivia Smith. <\/p>\n
what the managers say<\/h3>\n\n\n<\/article>\n<\/article>\nSlegers: <\/strong>“They possess the ball really well, they’re brave in their game, they work with rotations, so I think they look to dominate games with the ball. <\/p>\n“We have a squad that is well prepared, everyone is ready to go. They always do something different, so we know how they play, but we’ve also seen that they have specific plans for specific games, so we’re also expecting something that we might not know about. <\/p>\n\n\n<\/article>\n<\/article>\nVidosic: <\/strong>“We always talk about that – trying to be the first team to make that history for the club and bring the first piece of silverware. <\/p>\n“Arsenal is always a tricky one because they can keep the ball, but they can also hit you very, very quickly. If you do concede, that can very quickly turn into two or three, as we saw in the North London derby at the weekend. We\u2019ve learned from that.” <\/p>\n
team news<\/h3>\n\n\n<\/article>\n<\/article>\nLeah Williamson won’t be back this side of the international break, but will hope to be back in the squad for our UEFA Women’s Champions League semi-final against Lyon at the end of the month. <\/p>\n
Steph Catley will also miss Sunday’s quarter-final after going off with a calf strain at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday night. <\/p>\n
facts and stats<\/h3>\n\n\n<\/article>\n<\/article>\nWe’re looking to win a record-extending 15th FA Cup title; no men’s or women’s club has won more than the 14 held by both our men’s and women’s teams. <\/p>\n
Our last victorious FA Cup campaign was in 2016; the ten-year gap since we last won the competition is our longest since we secured our first title in 1993. <\/p>\n
We’ll be aiming to reach the quarter-finals of the FA Cup for the first time since our run to the semi-finals in 2022; Brighton made the last four more recently when they reached the 2023 semi-finals. <\/p>\n
Brighton have never eliminated us from a domestic cup competition, but the Seagulls did beat us 4-2 on penalties in the group stages of the 2019 League Cup. <\/p>\n
Last season’s 4-2 win over us at Broadfield Stadium remains Brighton’s only win over us in 90 minutes in their history and came at the 17th attempt.<\/p>\n
Alessia Russo scored Brighton’s first-ever goal at top flight level, netting the opening goal in their first Spring Series game against London Bees in February 2017. <\/p>\n
match officials<\/h3>\n\n\n<\/article>\n<\/article>\nReferee: <\/strong>Abigail Byrne
Assistant Referees: <\/strong>Ceri Williams & Lorraine Catchpole
Fourth Official<\/strong>: Emily Heaslip<\/p>\nhow to watch<\/h3>\n\n\n<\/article>\n<\/article>\nSupporters in the UK can catch the action live on TNT Sports and HBO Max, or listen to live audio commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live. <\/p>\n
Highlights will be available for supporters around the world from 12pm on Monday afternoon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n Read more<\/span> <\/p>\n How to watch Arsenal Women v Brighton on TV <\/span>
\n <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\nCopyright 2026 The Arsenal Football Club Limited. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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While we should have faced Brighton in February at Broadfield Stadium, the game was called off due to a waterlogged pitch. <\/p>\n
As a result, Sunday’s quarter-final will be our first meeting with Albion since a 1-0 win at Emirates Stadium in October courtesy of an own goal created by Olivia Smith. <\/p>\n
what the managers say<\/h3>\n\n\n<\/article>\n<\/article>\nSlegers: <\/strong>“They possess the ball really well, they’re brave in their game, they work with rotations, so I think they look to dominate games with the ball. <\/p>\n“We have a squad that is well prepared, everyone is ready to go. They always do something different, so we know how they play, but we’ve also seen that they have specific plans for specific games, so we’re also expecting something that we might not know about. <\/p>\n\n\n<\/article>\n<\/article>\nVidosic: <\/strong>“We always talk about that – trying to be the first team to make that history for the club and bring the first piece of silverware. <\/p>\n“Arsenal is always a tricky one because they can keep the ball, but they can also hit you very, very quickly. If you do concede, that can very quickly turn into two or three, as we saw in the North London derby at the weekend. We\u2019ve learned from that.” <\/p>\n
team news<\/h3>\n\n\n<\/article>\n<\/article>\nLeah Williamson won’t be back this side of the international break, but will hope to be back in the squad for our UEFA Women’s Champions League semi-final against Lyon at the end of the month. <\/p>\n
Steph Catley will also miss Sunday’s quarter-final after going off with a calf strain at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday night. <\/p>\n
facts and stats<\/h3>\n\n\n<\/article>\n<\/article>\nWe’re looking to win a record-extending 15th FA Cup title; no men’s or women’s club has won more than the 14 held by both our men’s and women’s teams. <\/p>\n
Our last victorious FA Cup campaign was in 2016; the ten-year gap since we last won the competition is our longest since we secured our first title in 1993. <\/p>\n
We’ll be aiming to reach the quarter-finals of the FA Cup for the first time since our run to the semi-finals in 2022; Brighton made the last four more recently when they reached the 2023 semi-finals. <\/p>\n
Brighton have never eliminated us from a domestic cup competition, but the Seagulls did beat us 4-2 on penalties in the group stages of the 2019 League Cup. <\/p>\n
Last season’s 4-2 win over us at Broadfield Stadium remains Brighton’s only win over us in 90 minutes in their history and came at the 17th attempt.<\/p>\n
Alessia Russo scored Brighton’s first-ever goal at top flight level, netting the opening goal in their first Spring Series game against London Bees in February 2017. <\/p>\n
match officials<\/h3>\n\n\n<\/article>\n<\/article>\nReferee: <\/strong>Abigail Byrne
Assistant Referees: <\/strong>Ceri Williams & Lorraine Catchpole
Fourth Official<\/strong>: Emily Heaslip<\/p>\nhow to watch<\/h3>\n\n\n<\/article>\n<\/article>\nSupporters in the UK can catch the action live on TNT Sports and HBO Max, or listen to live audio commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live. <\/p>\n
Highlights will be available for supporters around the world from 12pm on Monday afternoon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n Read more<\/span> <\/p>\n How to watch Arsenal Women v Brighton on TV <\/span>
\n <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\nCopyright 2026 The Arsenal Football Club Limited. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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Slegers: <\/strong>“They possess the ball really well, they’re brave in their game, they work with rotations, so I think they look to dominate games with the ball. <\/p>\n “We have a squad that is well prepared, everyone is ready to go. They always do something different, so we know how they play, but we’ve also seen that they have specific plans for specific games, so we’re also expecting something that we might not know about. <\/p>\n Vidosic: <\/strong>“We always talk about that – trying to be the first team to make that history for the club and bring the first piece of silverware. <\/p>\n “Arsenal is always a tricky one because they can keep the ball, but they can also hit you very, very quickly. If you do concede, that can very quickly turn into two or three, as we saw in the North London derby at the weekend. We\u2019ve learned from that.” <\/p>\n Leah Williamson won’t be back this side of the international break, but will hope to be back in the squad for our UEFA Women’s Champions League semi-final against Lyon at the end of the month. <\/p>\n Steph Catley will also miss Sunday’s quarter-final after going off with a calf strain at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday night. <\/p>\n We’re looking to win a record-extending 15th FA Cup title; no men’s or women’s club has won more than the 14 held by both our men’s and women’s teams. <\/p>\n Our last victorious FA Cup campaign was in 2016; the ten-year gap since we last won the competition is our longest since we secured our first title in 1993. <\/p>\n We’ll be aiming to reach the quarter-finals of the FA Cup for the first time since our run to the semi-finals in 2022; Brighton made the last four more recently when they reached the 2023 semi-finals. <\/p>\n Brighton have never eliminated us from a domestic cup competition, but the Seagulls did beat us 4-2 on penalties in the group stages of the 2019 League Cup. <\/p>\n Last season’s 4-2 win over us at Broadfield Stadium remains Brighton’s only win over us in 90 minutes in their history and came at the 17th attempt.<\/p>\n Alessia Russo scored Brighton’s first-ever goal at top flight level, netting the opening goal in their first Spring Series game against London Bees in February 2017. <\/p>\n Referee: <\/strong>Abigail Byrne Supporters in the UK can catch the action live on TNT Sports and HBO Max, or listen to live audio commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live. <\/p>\n Highlights will be available for supporters around the world from 12pm on Monday afternoon. <\/p>\n \n Read more<\/span> <\/p>\n Copyright 2026 The Arsenal Football Club Limited. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We face Brighton & Hove Albion at Mangata Developments Stadium<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/socialsport.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/socialsport.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/socialsport.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialsport.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialsport.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/socialsport.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialsport.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/socialsport.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialsport.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialsport.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}team news<\/h3>\n
facts and stats<\/h3>\n
match officials<\/h3>\n
Assistant Referees: <\/strong>Ceri Williams & Lorraine Catchpole
Fourth Official<\/strong>: Emily Heaslip<\/p>\nhow to watch<\/h3>\n
How to watch Arsenal Women v Brighton on TV <\/span>
\n <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n