Fabian Hurzeler has spoken about **Brighton**breaking their stale run of form in recent weeks.
The Seagulls snapped out of a slow start to the season to sit in the top five by the end of November. However, draws to West Ham and **Sunderland**and defeats to Aston Villa and **Liverpool**leave the team down in ninth position, and a trip to league leaders **Arsenal**could extend their December woes.
“We know the issue. The issue is we have to overcome the consistency thing. We have to play well for 90 minutes. We have to understand that it's about scoring goals. It's about defending the goal, doing the work in the small margins, not for 10 or 15 minutes but for 90-plus minutes.
“If we are doing this we are very difficult to beat and we can have a good season, but we have to understand how important the small margins are. But I see a team who put in a lot of effort. I see a team training hard. I see a team with big, big potential. We proved that we can beat every team in the league. So why should we change something?
“We have to reflect and analyse the games with honesty, with ownership from us as individuals and as a group. On the other side, we have a big self-belief that we can beat every team in the league and that's also what we try to do on Saturday.
“We try to keep pushing hard. You have to stay calm. You have to focus on the performances. We know how tight the league is and, as I said it before, it's about overcoming the issue with our consistency and overcoming it faster than the opponent. Do that and you have a big chance.
“We are a young squad that have a lot of willpower, a lot of things they try to do. They want to maybe force some things at times, but it's very important to stay relaxed, to stay calm. Things will come back to you if you keep working hard, if you do the easy things right, if you keep staying connected. We are quite convinced that the goal scorers will come back.”
“We are known for being a team with several players that can score goals, and we proved so far this season that a lot of players are also involved in creating goalscoring opportunities.
“We want to stay unpredictable, but of course, goal scorers help. But if we don't have a goal scorer on the pitch at the moment, then we have to find other solutions. Other solutions are to keep working harder and give short pieces of advice of what needs to be done – maybe to be calm in the opponent's box, what positions we have to be more present in and how we want to attack the box better.”