Baban Herzeller, director of Brighton, set the main tactical elements whose team should be careful in order to overcome Southampton this week.
Seagulls travels to ST Mary’s on Saturday, with the aim of handing their competitors in the southern coast a third consecutive defeat on board several weeks ago.
Southampton coach Ivan Gorek is fighting to keep his team in the English Premier League, with an arduous gap of 10 points separating them from wolves and safety in seventeenth place.
Herzeller has noticed a major tactical shift since Juric took over from the approach that was seen during its 1-1 draw in November under the leadership of Russell Martin.
There was a change. “Generally, they play a very direction,” the German said.
“They try to accumulate by using more and more target player, Paul Onuachu. They still have individual quality with (Mateus) Fernandez, (Tyler) Deepling, (Camaldin) Soleanana.
“They have players in the confrontation line who have the skill to score after each action. Moreover, I see that they are playing directly more more.
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“They are trying to pressure more towards man, try to press very high, and try to be very aggressive. I think there was a change in style, yes.”
At the previous meeting between the two teams, Flynn Downs saved a point for Southampton after Kawooro Mittma Breton put.
The saints were also a goalless goal in a controversial way. Despite the feeling hard before, Southampton was forced to settle in a tie, while Brighton ascended to second place at that time.
Now, the Hurzler team sits tenth in the league.
Thinking about that match, Herzeller admitted the lessons that his team could take in this meeting.
“The players are still as it is. They have a lot of right players, for example.
“In their accumulation, this is something that we have to take care. They play a lot of giving and abandoning their dispute. These things have not changed.
Of course you can look back in the game that we had in AmeX. You can think about it. You can take some lessons from this game.
“We hope you can do some small details better than we did in the last game. Depending on how we work individually, how to win personal bills.
“This was the main thing where, especially in the second half, they were better than us in the first game.”
Brighton hopes to apply these lessons on Saturday because it aims to continue to push them to get a strong end in the Premier League.