The southern club currently sit eighth in the Premier League table, with 52 points from 31 meetings, with a preference to play 3 games less than Aston Villa and Tottenham, who are sixth and seventh, with 54 points, and two games less than Liverpool, who are fifth on 56 points, meaning Brighton’s win with their overs will move them to fifth in the league table.
The Brighton side still have the chance to compete for the top four Champions League spots as stiff competition awaits with Newcastle on 65 points, and Manchester United on 63, who are third and fourth.
Historical persons
In the final round, Brighton managed to claim a historic victory over Wolverhampton, 6-0, which is the highest in the history of the club throughout their participation, as well as the biggest defeat in the history of the ” Wolves”.
Brighton also managed to beat Chelsea at their home Stamford Bridge for the first time in 122 years in mid-April.
Guardiola’s praise
Guardiola spoke about his remaining games in the English Premier League when competing against Arsenal for the title, and denied the possibility of winning easily, especially against Brighton, saying: “Brighton are the best team in the world at the moment to build the game. There is no better team than them to build the goalkeeper game, even in the last quarter of the field.
And the Italian, Brighton manager Roberto De Zerbi, managed to round off the perfect start from Graham Potter, who left the team mid-season to move to coach Chelsea last September, taking over from Thomas Tuchel, after the Blues’ new owners, ‘Todd Boyle Group’, paid the penalty clause in Potter’s contract with the club, which reached its £21million hour.
Potter left Brighton in September in fourth place in the table, with 4 wins and a draw, having finished the previous season with his side in ninth place in the middle of the table.
Compared to City and Arsenal
Last March, when Brighton honored guest West Ham United with a clear four that settled the Hammers, England international West Ham midfielder Declan Rice admitted his side did not know play host.
Rice said Brighton had a unique style of play and “they have a great way of keeping the ball, when I tried to defend I got a yellow card and could have gotten a red”.
And the star of the Three Lions team continued: “We did our best, but we suffered our biggest defeat this season against this solid team, who are ranked as strong as Man City and Arsenal.”
Exceptional Brighton
Brighton coach De Zerby’s battalion includes many ‘submersible’ players who have shone and captured the attention of top European clubs, including Argentina’s Alexis McAllister, who won the World Cup last December, and the ‘Ecuadorian Moses Caicedo, who “doesn’t lose the ball in midfield”, as his touch stat reached the ball 73 times per game, and the ball loss percentage was just 0.7 in He is also the second Premier League player to intercept the ball, becoming a target for Manchester United manager Eric Ten Hag, who has asked his club’s management to make a quick deal with Caicedo.
Brighton were able to convince their players of the club system, as McAllister commented on interest from big clubs to include him this summer, saying: “I am grateful for what the club have given me. If suitable offers arrive, I’ll sit down with the club to look into the matter, and if they don’t come, I’ll be happy to stay here.”
Brighton also includes elements of experience such as former Liverpool and Arsenal stars Adam Lallana and Danny Welbeck as the two are among only 5 players who have passed 30 in Brighton’s battalion.
The list of goalscorers also includes a large number of players due to the variety of attacking methods. McAllister and the Japanese Kaoru Mitoma, each with 10 goals, are dominated by the German Pascal Gross with 9 goals, then Sully March and Evan Ferguson, both with 8 goals, then Danny Welbeck, 7 goals.
Brighton’s average possession of the ball this year was 62.5 per cent, second only to Manchester City ahead of Arsenal, and Brighton is the highest expected goal in the English Premier League per game, with 2.5 goals every 90 minutes.
The secret of excellence
The American New York Times reported that Paul Barber, the club’s executive director, is the password to the team’s superiority and development, given the scientific approach he followed 11 years ago. .
According to the newspaper, Barber indicated that he had drawn up more than one possible replacement for all players, coaches and club employees, including a proposal for his replacements personally, which helped find a replacement for Graham Potter easily. , and to appoint De Zerby. to complete the process according to the system in force in the club.
The Brighton executive has revealed that new Chelsea owner Todd Boyle has asked 5 assistants from the Brighton squad to join the London club along with the manager.
Barber commented on Graham Potter and Chelsea’s lack of success, telling The New York Times: “At Brighton we respect the system which has been in place for some time, when Chelsea have the money but don’t has no plan.”
Brighton stuntman
He added: “One of the tricks we have to try is not to create a new team for each coach. The biggest challenge is to keep developing with the same team and with a different coach.”
The Brighton CEO gave an example of the system and database in place, with Japanese player Mituma, the team’s top scorer, explaining: “Mituma dropped out in the summer of 2021 and wanted to complete his university education at Japan, so we left.” there to shine remarkably.”
And he continues: “At the start of the season, because of his visa crisis, we had to loan him to the Belgian club Saint Giloise until the procedures were completed, and when Trossard asked to leave for Arsenal. in January, Mitoma was brought into the vacant spot in the team to become one of the team’s most dangerous players and one of the stars of the English Premier League. We sell a player before buying his replacement first.”
The same happened again with Ecuadorian Caicedo, who was signed by Brighton in 2021 when he was 19.
This deal came in preparation for the sale of Bisuma, as Barber says: “If we had tried to sign a player after selling Bisuma, we would have had to pay more money. There is nothing worse than ‘enter the transfer market and negotiate after selling a player at a high price.’
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