Brighton Manager Fabian Hurzeler has shown the most important tactical elements from which his team will be defeated in Southampton this weekend.
The seagulls travel to St. Mary on Saturday and strive to hand over a third defeat in a row in just as many weeks.
The boss of Southampton, Ivan Juric, fights to keep his side in the Premier League, and a discouraging 10-point gap now separates them from the 17th wolves and security.
Hurzeler has found a significant tactical change since the takeover of Juric and withdrawn from the approach, which was observed during her 1-1 draw in November under Russell Martin.
“There was a change. In general, they play very oriented, ”said the German.
“They try to build up by using the target player Paul Onuachu more and more. You still have an individual quality with (Mateus) Fernandes, (Tyler) Dishopric, (Kamaldeen) Sulemana.
“You have players on the front who have the ability to score after each action. In addition, I see that they play a little more directly.
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“They try to press more you or more oriented, press very high and to be very aggressive. I think there was a style change, yes. “
In the previous meeting between the two teams, Flynn Downes saved a point for Southampton after Kaoru gave Brighton in the lead.
The saints had also not allowed a goal in a controversial way. Although Southampton felt done hard, he had to be satisfied with a draw, while Brighton rose to second place at that time.
Now Hurzeler’s team is on the 10th place in the league.
Hurzeler reflected on this game and recognized the lessons that his site could include in this encounter.
“The players are still the same. For example, you have many players with a right foot.
“In her structure, this is one thing in which we have to be careful. They play a lot of give-and-go with their central defenders. These things have not changed.
“Of course you can look back on the game we had in the Amex. You can think about it. You can take some lessons from this game.
“Hopefully you can do some small details better than in the last game. Depending on how we work individually, how we win the personal duels.
“That was the main thing in which they were better in the first game, especially in the second half.”
Brighton will hope to apply these lessons on Saturday to continue their push for a strong goal in the Premier League.
