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Hurzeler frustrated after Brighton beaten at home by Arsenal

04/03/2026

AMEX stadium, Brighton, UK
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00:22more clinical more calm you could made like like better decisions i think then we could even create
00:28more more chances but overall like you said it in the end we lost so we are all disappointed
00:36regarding the performance i love the effort from from my boys i i loved how to play football i think
00:42there was only one team who tried to play football today and therefore i'm proud how how they did it
00:48and we have to we have to keep working on the details we have to keep improving the the small
00:54margins in the final third to to create more chances but that's our job our responsibility
00:59and then we will keep working
01:01you said in the build-up to the game that you thought arsenal were creative with the way they use
01:06their time for throw-ins free kicks corners
01:09creative i said creative with the time took their time wasted time however you want to phrase it do you
01:15feel that was on display tonight
01:18i ask one question did you see in the premier league game a goalkeeper going down three times
01:28no so i think we shouldn't waste too much words about about that tonight we should focus on on us
01:35we
01:35should focus on our performance we can't control these kind of things i think therefore the premier
01:40league has to find the rule and it's not it's not my business i made my point before the game
01:45and i and
01:46i stick to it in the end we are we are football coaches so no other coach a football coach
01:52to
01:52to manage the game to to help the team to win and therefore the focus on it
02:04i i can't remember um i'm in my tunnel so i try to focus on my team might be might
02:12be a little
02:13complaining about one action of of time wasting there were so many so it could be could be one action
02:18of that
02:38yeah he he couldn't continue the game so that was disappointing for us because i think he he showed a
02:46good performance in the first half and now we have to
02:48we have to wait for the scan and then we can say more but we don't think that it's a
02:52big injury
03:09i think he made it he made a good performance today so we can't expect like incredible things i think
03:16last season he was in the flow so
03:18when a player is in the flow he does like incredible things so we need to get him back to
03:23this flow there are
03:24there are several things i think behind every player is a person a person with a background a person that
03:29might have like like private issues so i think that's that's something what the public should um always
03:35recognize as well and um i think he he made a good performance today he he was um creative in
03:42the final
03:42four third he he had some chances he had some shots in the goal so therefore i was i was
03:48happy with him
03:49and now we have to we have to keep supporting him that he gets back to his shape
03:52what did you make of carlos tonight um you know he doesn't play pretty well but at the start of
04:00the
04:00game a bit unfortunate with the deflection but that chance early on he seemed to be disappointed not to
04:06take that it could have been a different night could be could be but that's another theory so also for
04:11him i was i was pleased how he played i think he still needs to work on his condition to
04:18to play for 90
04:19minutes again in minutes 70 he started to to struggle so that's definitely something what we have to
04:25keep working with him but overall i think what a step in the right direction definitely
04:37very difficult very difficult but we tried it we tried it hard we tried to keep the ball moving we
04:44try to keep creating chances and in the end i think these kind of of opponents you can only punish
04:51by
04:52winning against them so today i have no arguments on my side if i would have a 2-1 win
04:57a deserved 2-1 win
04:59i could speak differently so therefore we need to find a way to to punish it we need to find
05:05a way to to
05:06find solutions against these kind of teams and that's our responsibility so then we have to keep working
05:12complaining complaining doesn't help so that's why focus is on us
05:17do you know the saying uh the ends justify the means do you understand what i mean with that
05:23from an awesome point of view the end justify the means you have to
05:29give me an understanding i think what i'm trying to say is that it's just all about the victory
05:33it doesn't matter how you win yeah yeah but that's what i mean like there are different kinds of
05:39of winning so if they win the premier league no one will ask how they win the premier league i
05:45think
05:45you can really feel that they want they want to do everything now to to win this game and in
05:51the end
05:51it's about the rules so if the premier league if the referee allow everything then it's difficult then
05:57they make their own rules so at the moment i have the feeling they are doing their own rules no
06:01matter
06:03how they are how they are playing so that's why i think it's it's difficult to to judge that overall
06:09like i said i will never be that kind of manager who tries to win in that way i want
06:15to to develop
06:16players i want that my players are keep improving and and keep doing playing football on on the pitch
06:22and in the end of course every team will manage and waste time but i think there has to be
06:28a limit and
06:29the limit has to be set by the premier league the limit has to be set by by the referees
06:33at the
06:33moment they they just can do what they want no no but we will get the statistics for for that
06:42i made my
06:43point before the game and i stick to it and everyone else can can judge it on his own so
06:48i'm not sure if
06:49i would ask now everyone here in the room did he really enjoy this football game i'm sure maybe one
06:55raises his arm because he's a big arsenal fan but beside that no chance so that's why again it's
07:05just a repetition we waste too much time about talking about arsenal in their game it's really
07:09focusing on us focusing on the positive things focusing on on the effort my team gave today and
07:15they deserved more but again we didn't get the result we deserved so we have to keep working harder to
07:21to punish them the next time then they are champions but i think it's always the the way the way
07:33we just
07:33spoke about the way of winning which kind of way you are choosing and uh that's if they win i
07:39said it
07:39no one will ask how they win they then they deserve to to win it but in the end we
07:45have to make the limits
07:46or that the premier league has to make the limits where where will this go in the future that's my
07:50question where will this go like at one point one game we play 60 minute netto time and then when
07:56you
07:56play against us and only 50 minutes then it's 10 minutes different so is this for what the supports
08:02are paying for do you get my point it's difficult i said it i said it to him it's difficult
08:20for him so
08:20i won't i won't complain about the referee because it's really difficult for him like do you want to
08:27send off the goalkeeper with two yellow cards for wasting time this will never happen so what what
08:33should he do that's the thing that's why i think you you need like rules you need like limits because
08:38that's also what he admits to me in the halftime like i didn't talk even about the penalty we might
08:43receive before after we just talked about how can you reduce the the time of waste and he says like
08:48it's even difficult for him so that's why what i said is making clear rules and i think that's
08:54responsibility from from the premier league because then you can protect the referee in the end you
08:59can't go on the referee because of that like they just try to to make their job the best they
09:03can do
09:04but they have to stick to to some things and i think therefore the premier definitely has to help them
09:13no no i think that's not good that's it's so emotional that so again he made a a good performance
09:21for me i would never blame the referee i never blame the referee if you're winning i never blame
09:25the referee if you're losing they tried to make decisions and they tried to make the the best
09:30decisions they they could do sometimes i see it differently but i think today what should he do
09:36that's what i meant what should he what should he do when when the goalkeeper goes down three times in
09:40the game he sees limited because he gives maybe one yellow card then he does it again do you really
09:46think he gives him the second yellow card that's my point
09:57yeah i think really positive performance as well from from him he he showed what he's capable of doing
10:03and therefore a lot of positives that's what i mean um we're talking too much about the negatives to
10:11today we have a lot of positive things we had a lot of positive performances on the pitch and
10:16now it's about us to to keep pushing to keep fighting and try to get the results
10:22because because of his knee
10:33in your experience in preparing for arsenal have they always been like that or is this a recent
10:38thing no i made my point before the press conference i think uh this topic is getting more and more
10:45now
10:46also in the public so let's see how the last nine nine games are going if the primary league tries
10:52to
10:52intervene and tries to protect the referee or if they just say do what you want
11:06keep working hard trying for to go from game to game trying to get the results we we need and
11:11then
11:11we see what's possible
11:24yeah he had a small issue minor so he will be back in the next game
11:30no not really small small issue to the muscle
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