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Fabian Hurzeler on helping Brighton's players turn consistency into habit

tacticsjournal.comFabian Hurzeler on helping Brighton's players turn consistency into habitBrighton & Hove Albion manager Fabian Hurzeler: They all have this hunger to improve every day. They all have this hunger to listen and to be very quick learners. They might make my idea their idea, and I think that’s always the key for a coach. I have ideas together with my coaching team and we have principles, but in the end the players have to live it themselves. They have to believe that’s their idea. We show this desire to score and also the desire to defend. It starts in a mindset: how you attack the box. If you have this desire — “Yes, I want to score” — then you go into the box with a different intention. They sacrifice for each other. You might need to do a run for your teammate to open a space. I always use this example from Thomas Müller: he makes 10 runs and 10 times he doesn’t get the ball, but the 11th time he gets the ball for himself. The other 10 times before, he opened the space for his teammates. No one gives him rewards for this, but these kinds of works are important, and we really emphasise them in our meetings.That is the type of play I like. Make the run regardless. Now you have a team of eleven players all ready to recieve the ball.Hurzeler: Players—that’s what I always mention and emphasise: the players’ connection. That’s what the players really own. We as coaches shouldn’t take ourselves too seriously or think we have that much impact on these dynamics, because in the end the players have to build it on their own. The players who were on the pitch yesterday need to listen and learn our style of play even when they’re not playing. They showed yesterday that they’re really good at listening and that they try to do it in every training session. They don’t always have to play to learn these things, and they can identify with our style.The relationships are the most important thing.

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