Roberto De Zerbi admitted depleted Brighton are dropping too many Premier League points following a frustrating goalless stalemate with Wolves.
Albion dominated possession at the Amex Stadium as they stretched their unbeaten home run to a club-record nine top-flight fixtures to climb to seventh, above Manchester United on goal difference.
But the Seagulls, who lacked a cutting edge on Monday evening, have drawn five of those fixtures and a league-high eight matches overall.
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Brighton boss De Zerbi feels a lengthy injury list and European commitments are impacting his side’s league results.
“We have to understand the situation of injuries, we have to understand how much energy we spent in the Europa League, in FA Cup, we have to analyse if we will be lucky or unlucky,” said the Italian, whose side drew 0-0 with West Ham in their previous game.
“In the last two games in the Premier League we have been unlucky because two points after two games with good quality to win the game, we are losing too many points.
“We have been unlucky because five draws (at home), for example Sheffield United, Burnley, Fulham and Wolverhampton, we deserved to win all of the games.
“We didn’t play the best game in my time (tonight) but we created a condition to win the game.
“Yes, we made some mistakes in the crucial part of the pitch and for it we didn’t win.”
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Brighton controlled the play against Wolves but rarely threatened.
Facundo Buonanotte saw an early diving header cleared off the line by Tommy Doyle, while Wanderers captain Maximilian Kilman hit the frame of his own goal.
De Zerbi remains without the creative talents of Kaoru Mitoma, Simon Adingra, Ansu Fati, Solly March and Julio Enciso but dismissed talk of recruiting reinforcements this month.
“No, transfer market is not my business,” he said.
“I have to be focused on my work and my work is to give organisation, to give a style, to try the condition to play well and make points.
“We are seventh place on the table and if you consider how many problems we had in the first part of the season we have to be proud because we are playing better than the situation we are enduring.”
Wolves were thrashed 6-0 in this fixture last season but could have snatched victory.
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— Wolves (@Wolves) January 22, 2024
Pedro Neto, Matheus Cunha and Mario Lemina each went close for the counter-attacking visitors.
In the absence of 10-goal top scorer Hwang Hee-chan, Neto played as a central striker on the south coast on his first start since October.
Wolves boss Gary O’Neil was impressed with the impact of the Portugal forward but hopes to bolster his striking options during the transfer window.
“We always had that threat,” said O’Neil. “Pedro was good, probably played a little bit longer than we would have liked ideally.
“I just felt there was still a goal in him so tried to push him a little bit more than was ideal but pleased that he got through it.
“Hopefully over the next few days we can do something in the window that can help us in that area.
“Until then we work hard to try and maximise what we have in the room and I felt we did that well today.
“The main thing was we looked like a team, we stuck together and when it got tough in certain situations we looked like we could cope and always had that threat.”
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