@traineffectiveofficial: 🗣️ “We try and get ideas from other sports” Brighton & Hove Albion took an unconventional approach by bringing in MMA fighter Christian Eckerlin to work with players on arm drags and gaining dominant body positions. Head coach Fabian Hürzeler explained: 🗣️“We brought him in because we spoke a lot about set-pieces, blocking, new trends in the Premier League. Therefore we tried to adapt to it as well.” 🗣️ “I don’t always want to be known as a club that is nice. In certain moments you need to be quite resilient in personal duels. There are different ways of being resilient, of using a block, different techniques to win one-v-one duels - especially at set-pieces.” 🗣️ “An MMA fighter always has one-against-one duels. They always need to find a way to beat an opponent. We try to get ideas from other sports and this was an idea we used. If it stays in a player’s mind then that’s always a positive thing.” A bold crossover between sports, but whether officials in the Premier League will allow it to play out is another question 🤔 #PremierLeague #brighton #prem

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