There are plenty of key players missing for Brighton which makes their recent resurgence even more impressive. The Seagulls will start Joao Pedro up top with Kaoru Mitoma and Yankuba Minteh likely to start out wide. An injury to Georginio Rutter could mean Danny Welbeck keeps his spot with Pedro playing just behind him.

"We weren't performing very well defensively and conceding more goals than usual. Today is a clean sheet and we are getting balance. Those three points are very important for the table. On Saturday we have Nottingham [Forest] and we know how difficult that will be.

Marcus Rashford scored his first league goal for Aston Villa in a comfortable 3-0 win at Brighton & Hove Albion on Wednesday which moved the visitors ahead of the hosts in the Premier League table. Villa moved up to seventh place on 48 points,