Brighton manager, Fabian Hürzeler has urged his players to stop playing “too wild” after 0-0 draw against Ipswich.
Hürzeler’s Seagulls missed a chance to go second in the Premier League with a win following Liverpool’s shock home defeat to Nottingham Forest, having scrapped their way to a goalless draw at home to Ipswich.
“I think that my team did everything on the pitch to win the game and we defended good,” commented Hürzeler.
The 31 year-old boss though felt that his team needed to learn to stick to the game plan and not play “too wild,” when in dominant control of the match.
“”We kept the ball in their half, and I think they had one transition in 90 minutes and that’s it so that is a positive thing for us.
“But in some moments we were too wild, getting out of our match plan and our structure and when that happens it doesn’t work and that’s the thing we have to learn. But we are still unbeaten, that’s a positive.”
Hürzeler proceeded to iterate his preference to judge his players on the performance rather than results, but warned that his squad still need to improve in the long-term.
“We had enough chances to score. We were very dominant and that’s why it feels disappointing, but in the end I will never judge my team after results I will judge them by the performance, and I was happy with that.
“There are still things we can improve, but we try to follow the process and to improve every day. We have to integrate the new players and we do that step by step.
“We couldn’t find that goal so we have to create more chances but if you play with this intensity and defend like we did I’m sure long-term it will be successful.”
Reflecting on how his team missed the chance to go second, Hürzeler put that lost opportunity down to a lack of clinical end product.
“We knew it would be a tough game and we needed to be very clean and precise in the final third and in some moments we missed that, so we have to use training [sessions] to improve these things.”