Bournemouth vs. Brighton, Saturday 22nd January, Kick-off: 3pm

Sports Saturday with Ben Holt, 2-6pm, Juice 107.2, www.juicebrighton.com
 
Build up to the game begins at 2pm, featuring interviews with Gus Poyet and keeper Casper Ankergren, and from 3pm we'll have regular updates from Dean Court and around the country. Plus, the chance to win 2 tickets for Tuesday night's match at the Withdean: Albion vs Colchester.
 
Albion’s 3-1 home win over Darren Ferguson’s Peterborough last Saturday continued their push for automatic promotion, putting them four points clear at the top of League One. However, it wasn’t plain sailing for the Seagulls; Gus Poyet’s team survived a couple of late scares to secure their fourth win on the trot. It was Ferguson Junior’s first game of his second spell in charge of the Posh, making it a difficult game for Albion to prepare for, not knowing what to expect from their opposition.

It’s a similar scenario this weekend, as they travel to Dean Court, where Bournemouth have just appointed veteran striker Lee Bradbury as caretaker manager, after Eddie Howe and his assistant Jason Tindall announced their move to Championship side Burnley. It will be Bradbury’s second match in charge of the Cherries, after starting life as boss with a goalless draw at Spotland on Tuesday night.

It promises to be an intriguing match; Bournemouth’s league position is mainly down to their excellent home form, winning 9 out of 12, and scoring 31 goals, but Brighton have only conceded 9 goals in 11 away matches.

There is also an element of revenge in this match, as Albion were denied all three points in the reverse fixture back in October, when Tommy Elphick was ruled to have handled the ball inside the box, resulting in a penalty for the Cherries. Marc Pugh slotted it home, and Kazenga Lua Lua’s brilliant strike was cancelled out.

However, Gus Poyet insists that October’s controversy will have no bearing on the way his team approach the match; “if it was something between the two clubs or the players I would be worried, but because it was all about the referee, I think that it’s just history”.

Last 5 Matches:
Brighton:
W (3-1 Peterborough)
W (3-1 Portsmouth)
W (1-2 Exeter)
W (5-0 Leyton Orient)
D (1-1 Charlton)

Bournemouth:
D (0-0 Rochdale)
L (2-1 Colchester)
W (3-0 Plymouth)
W (3-1 Brentford)
W (1-2 Swindon)

Albion’s starting line up vs. Peterborough (last game):
Ankergren, Greer, El-Abd, Calderon, Painter, Bennett, Sparrow (Kishishev 73), Bridcutt, Noone (Dicker 58), Murray (Barnes 79), Wood; Subs not used: Brezovan, Elphick, Holroyd, Sandaza