Fabian Hurzeler: How Brighton boss has managed transition from Roberto de Zerbi

Continuity has been key to Brighton’s successful transition to Hurzeler’s methods, whose own ideas of football aren’t that different from his predecessor, as he revealed earlier in the season.

“He brought this current energy to the players,” said Hurzeler, when talking about De Zerbi.

“So I don’t have to make a complete turnaround of the players because they were familiar with this.”

The young German’s arrival has seen him implement some key principles, one being overloading the opposition’s last line of defence with attackers and midfielders.

“You occupy opponents more if you have more players in the last line,” he added.

“Then you create more dynamism with deep runs and how many players can create deep runs.”