Brighton and Hove Women’s team look to continue their impressive start to the Women’s Super League when they face Leicester City Women at the Broadfield Stadium.
Brighton are currently fourth after five games, level on points with Manchester United. Leicester are in seventh averaging a point a game after five games.
Embed from Getty ImagesSeagulls’ manager Dario Vidosic has said that Fran Kirby is fit to play, despite receiving some treatment for a knee injury sustained in their 1-1 draw with United. He said “She’s ok. It was just from the United game where she made a block at the end and just tweaked her knee.”
No other injury news for Brighton ahead of this match as Vidosic continued “No one [on international duty] flagged anything, which is always good news, but we’ll assess them.”
Embed from Getty ImagesLeicester City manager Amandine Miquel is expected a tough test against the Seagulls but is looking to halt their impressive start, having gained their first win of the season in their last game with Everton.
Injuries have hurt the Foxes this season with Noémie Mouchon out for the season with an ACL injury, and injuries to Jutta Rantala and Shannon O’Brien, but Miquel still thinks they have enough firepower. “If I didn’t think we had enough to score and win the game, we wouldn’t go. My feeling right now is that we have players in the squad that can score goals, even if they’re not naturally forward players.”
Everton make three changes to their line up with Skipper Cayman, Ale and Swaby coming in for Takarada, Momiki and Bott. Brighton make two changes with Haley and McLauchlan in for Thorisdottir and Bremer.