Brighton may not be the favorite in today's match, but still the Gunners must not be careless and think that Brighton does not have the strength to score goals or dominate the match. It is precisely at times like this that Arsenal often slip up, last season Arsenal also lost points due to playing against an unexpected team which caused Man City to emerge as trophy winners. Well, in my opinion, nothing is easy to predict, Arsenal may be aiming for points but Arteta also needs his squad to protect themselves because next week they need players who are on fire. For me looking at the situation that requires Arsenal to rotate players, it is very likely that Arsenal will have to be careful against Brighton.
So far the match is going well between Arsenal and Brighton and for now there both strength are equal, although arsenal almost scored during the early minute but the heading was not on target, funny enough the kind of performance Brighton is posing on Arsenal on this match is quite unexpected because Brighton have been seen as a club that doesn't have much performance compare to Arsenal but there efforts on this early time of the match is encouraging and if they had utilized the opportunity they had they would have also score one goal.
However I still believe that Arsenal will break them eventually because since the match has not really gone that far the both team performance will still be equal, so from the second half we will really see the team that's more stronger, however with the current situation of Arsenal on the premier League table they cannot afford to lose or draw this match because if they do Manchester City will take over the second position, so there main target on this match is to win Brighton.