Crystal Palace and Brighton play out stalemate amid Guéhi injury fears

<p>Crystal Palace supporters have spent the past six months taking great pleasure in reminding Brighton that they have still yet to win a major trophy. So the first meeting of the clubs since Oliver Glasner’s side did the double over their adversaries from down the A23 for the first time since 1933 – before going on to win the FA Cup – was never going to be one for the faint-hearted.</p><p>But while the streets of south London had the usual heavy police presence for a rivalry that dates back to the days when these clubs were managed by Terry Venables and Alan Mullery in the late 1970s, there wasn’t the same quality to match the passion on display. While Palace maintained their record of not having lost to Brighton here <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/mar/09/crystal-palace-brighton-hove-albion-premier-league-match-report">since March 2019</a>, Fabian Hürzeler’s side will see this as a chance spurned as they failed to take advantage of opponents who are running on fumes given the extra demands of a Conference League campaign that left them without their captain, Marc Guéhi.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/nov/09/crystal-palace-brighton-premier-league-match-report">Continue reading...</a>