Jason Deacon

🚨 Thierry Henry on Fabian Hurzeler’s Brighton: “You look at Brighton’s team sheet and, with respect, you’re not immediately thinking, ‘How are we going to survive against these players?’ Then the game starts and you understand. Everybody runs. Everybody presses. Everybody wants the ball. You press one player and somebody else appears in the space. After 20 minutes, players you weren’t worried about before kick off suddenly look like they have another level. I watched them beat Coventry 5-0. Then they went to Old Trafford, went 2-0 down and came back to win. Now they’re doing this against Arsenal. And this is where I have to give Hurzeler enormous credit. Arsenal’s defence is not a defence you normally play around for fun. They had conceded once in the Premier League all season before today. Once. Brighton looked at that and apparently nobody told them they were supposed to be impressed. They keep coming. They keep running. They keep playing. There’s no fear in them. That’s coaching. Hurzeler hasn’t collected eleven superstars. He’s created a team where you look at the names before kick off and think you should be fine, then 45 minutes later you’re wondering where he found all these players. That’s what I love about them. Brighton don’t need you to fear their team sheet. They make you fear them once the football starts.”