[FILES] Stamford Bridge, the home ground of Chelsea football club, is pictured in west London (Photo by Niklas HALLE’N / AFP)Brighton & Hove Albion pair Kaoru Mitoma and Adam Lallana are back in training and should be available to face Chelsea today.Levi Colwill is ineligible to face his parent club, while Joel Veltman is a doubt because of a calf problem.Chelsea head coach, Graham Potter, will return to his previous club without defender Kalidou Koulibaly, who remains sidelined by a knee injury.Reece James, Wesley Fofana and N’Golo Kante are long-term absentees.After five games in charge, Roberto de Zerbi is still waiting for his first win as Brighton boss.That means he already had his predecessor, Graham Potter, looming over him – now he goes directly up against him on Potter’s first return to the club where he did such a good job.In contrast, Potter is unbeaten after nine games with Chelsea.
Brighton was actually decent in the defeat against Manchester City last weekend. A lot of teams get rolled over by City, but the Seagulls took the game to them at times and they will do the same here.Brighton has faced 109 different opponents in league games and beaten all of them except Chelsea (D4, L10).The Seagulls have drawn four and lost 10 of their 14 league meetings with Chelsea.On head-to-head, Chelsea is unbeaten in 17 matches against Brighton since a 2-1 FA Cup away defeat in their first meeting in January 1933 (W12, D5).The Seagulls haven’t led in any of the 10 Premier League meetings.However, four of the five most recent encounters ended in a draw.Brighton has only earned two points from their past five league fixtures.