Brighton & Hove Albion vs Arsenal live stream, match preview, team news and kick-off time for this Premier League match

Brighton & Hove Albion vs Arsenal live stream and match preview, Saturday 31 December, 5.30pm GMT

Brighton & Hove Albion vs Arsenal live stream and match preview

Looking for a Brighton & Hove Albion vs Arsenal live stream? We’ve got you covered. Brighton & Hove Albion vs Arsenal is on Sky Sports in the UK. Brit abroad? Use a VPN to watch the Premier League with your subscription (opens in new tab) from anywhere.

Arsenal (opens in new tab) maintained their five-point lead at the top of the Premier League table over the festive round of fixtures.

Mikel Arteta’s men conceded the first goal in their meeting with West Ham (opens in new tab), before bouncing back to win 3-1.

Down on the south coast, Europa League-chasing Brighton (opens in new tab) registered a 3-0 victory over Southampton (opens in new tab) last time out.

Kick-off is at 5.30pm GMT. Make sure you know how to watch the Premier League (opens in new tab) wherever you are.

Team news

Arsenal will have to make do without Gabriel Jesus, Reiss Nelson, Emile Smith Rowe and Takehiro Tomiyasu on Saturday.

Brighton will be unable to call upon the services of Jakub Moder, Alexis Mac Allister, Adam Webster and Moises Caicedo, while Danny Welbeck is a doubt.

Form

Arsenal have taken 25 points from the last 27 available, while they have now won four games in a row in the top flight.

Brighton have won three of their last four Premier League games, leaving them just six points adrift of the top four.

Referee

Anthony Taylor will be the referee for Brighton & Hove Albion vs Arsenal.

Stadium

Brighton & Hove Albion vs Arsenal will be played at the 31,800-capacity Amex Stadium in Falmer.

Kick-off and channel

Brighton & Hove Albion vs Arsenal kick-off is at 5.30pm GMT on Saturday 31 December in the UK. The game is being shown on Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Football (opens in new tab).

In the US, kick-off time is 12.30pm ET / 9.30am PT. The match will be shown on NBC in the US. See below for international broadcast options.

VPN guide

If you’re out of the country for a Premier League fixture, then you won’t be able to watch on your domestic streaming service as usual. The broadcaster knows where you are because of your IP address (boo!) and blocks you from watching it. You can use a VPN to get around that, though, without resorting to illegal feeds you’ve found on Reddit.

A Virtual Private Network (VPN), assuming it complies with your broadcaster’s T&Cs, creates a private connection between your device and t’internet, meaning the service can’t work out where you are and will let you watch. And all the info going between is entirely encrypted, anonymous and safe – and that’s a result.

There are plenty of good-value options out there. For the Premier League, FourFourTwo currently recommends:

International Premier League TV rights

• UK: Sky Sports (opens in new tab) and BT Sport (opens in new tab) are the two main players once again, but Amazon (opens in new tab) also have a slice of the pie in 2022/23. 
• USA: NBC Sports Group are the Premier League rights holders, with the Peacock Premium (opens in new tab) streaming platform showing even more than the 175 games it aired last season. If you pick up a fuboTV subscription (opens in new tab) for the games not on Peacock Premium, you’ll be able to watch every game.
• Canada: The way to watch Premier League football in 2022/23 is fuboTV (opens in new tab), which has exclusive rights to all the action.
• Australia: Optus Sport (opens in new tab) will screen every game of the Premier League season. Non-subscribers can access the action via a Fetch TV box (opens in new tab) and other friendly streaming devices.
• New Zealand: Sky Sport (opens in new tab) are serving up all 380 games – plus various highlights and magazine shows throughout the week, as well as the Champions League.

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Greg Lea is a freelance football journalist who’s filled in wherever FourFourTwo needs him since 2014. He became a Crystal Palace fan after watching a 1-0 loss to Port Vale in 1998, and once got on the scoresheet in a primary school game against Wilfried Zaha’s Whitehorse Manor (an own goal in an 8-0 defeat).