Brighton supervisor Fabian Hurzeler has urged his facet to “climb new peaks” as they search to maneuver into the Premier League’s prime six.
The hovering Seagulls have been on a formidable run since being hammered 7-0 at Nottingham Forest on February 1.
Brighton’s extra-time FA Cup victory at Newcastle final weekend was a fifth straight win in all competitions for the south coast facet.
Hurzeler — at 32 the youngest everlasting supervisor in Premier League historical past — has loved a formidable first marketing campaign on the membership, who host Fulham on Saturday.
Marco Silva’s Fulham are ninth within the desk, one place beneath Brighton because the race for European locations hots up.
Hurzeler, two years youthful than Brighton ahead Danny Welbeck, has challenged his crew to intention excessive.
The membership’s best-ever Premier League end was sixth, within the 2022/23 season, incomes qualification for the Europa League.
“It is extremely essential we concentrate on our journey and that we actually imagine in it,” Hurzeler mentioned on Friday.
“Yesterday, I obtained an image from a mountain. In a mountain you all the time have new peaks, new peaks it’s a must to climb. That’s the objective for us, we now have to climb new peaks.”
He added: “Fulham might be an enormous, massive problem. They’ve performed an unbelievable season, they play very compact as a crew and have particular person high quality.”
Hurzeler mentioned Japan winger Kaoru Mitoma can be out there, having been compelled off with cramp at Newcastle.
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