Brighton star Kaoru Mitoma has picked up an injury that will rule him out of tomorrow’s game against Nottingham Forest.
Furthermore, Roberto De Zerbi has injury doubts over Levi Colwill and Jan Paul van Hecke ahead of tomorrow’s game.
The Seagulls are yet to collect three points under their new manager.
De Zerbi has big shoes to fill in replacing Graham Potter who recently joined Chelsea on a long-term deal.
His first game saw Brighton flex their credentials with a 3-3 draw at Liverpool in an enthralling game.
Since then they’ve lost to Tottenham and Brentford in pretty disappointing fashion and they will want to bounce back.
Tomorrow, they face Forest on home soil and they couldn’t really pick a better fixture to get back on track.
Mitoma has featured in all three of the games that De Zerbi has taken charge of but he’s yet to start a game this season.
He’s looked lively from the bench though and after eight goals and four assists in Belgium last year, big things were expected.
The player has scored five goals in nine appearances for Japan and he looks like a talented player for the future.
Colwill is a name that Forest fans will remember for all the right reasons.
The centre-back was on loan at Huddersfield last season and scored the winning goal in the Championship play-off final in the wrong net!
He looks likely to miss out tomorrow, with defender van Hecke also struggling to be fit for the visit of Forest.
Mitoma has picked up injury and it could help Forest
The international performer will be a miss for Brighton tomorrow.
Forest will be needing all the help they can get in order to get a result at the AMEX Stadium tomorrow night.
With two defenders and Mitoma being absent tomorrow it should give Forest some areas of weakness to try and attack.
Mitoma is quick, skilful and would have definitely been a threat had he been called upon against the Reds.
Steve Cooper knows he must start winning games soon and he will be buoyed to discover that Brighton are missing a few tomorrow night.
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