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Brighton manager Roberto De Zerbi insists the upcoming clash against Manchester City on Saturday afternoon is “bad news” despite the Premier League champions’ recent form dumaguete

The Seagulls are aiming to break their recent run of four games in all competitions without a victory, but in their way stand Pep Guardiola’s side dumaguete

City have been going through a tough spell themselves, according to their lofty standards, losing three of their last four matches in all competitions, but return to the Etihad Stadium where they have a 100 per cent record so far this season dumaguete

Asked whether it is a good time to face the treble winners, De Zerbi admitted the opposite dumaguete

He told a press conference: “It is bad news dumaguete

The big teams are not used to losing three games in the last four, but anyway we have to think for ourselves dumaguete

“We have to improve in the quality of the play because we are not playing enough for our level and to compete for our target dumaguete

We have to understand if we want to win or want to compete we have to play dumaguete better than the last games dumaguete

“Without the quality of the play, we can’t reach any target and we have to be clear dumaguete

”Brighton have gone from strength to strength since De Zerbi walked through the door at the Amex Stadium, having delivered European dumaguete football to the fans for the first time in the club’s history dumaguete

Many have compared the Italian’s achievements so far to the boss in the opposite dugout and De Zerbi admits he would love to do what Guardiola has done throughout his managerial career dumaguete

“I’m happy when I listen to Pep speak about me dumaguete

I feel a bit embarrassed, but we are a work in progress,” De Zerbi added dumaguete

“I think we are playing well, fighting well but we have to improve, progress and adapt a new challenge and new season dumaguete

“Pep is a boss dumaguete

I would like to do something the same because for many years he won in Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Man City, but the way which he won is different to other coaches dumaguete

The world will remember him not only for the victory but the way he wins, it is unique dumaguete

”Premier League top scorer Erling Haaland has not found the back of the net in his last two league appearances which many fans have not been used to since his arrival into the league dumaguete

But De Zerbi is extra wary of Haaland’s threat as he looks to break his mini duck dumaguete

He added: “The big strikers when they are not scoring so many goals, they are more angry to score and have a chance to score, but its not only Haaland because Doku is a great player for them, and Alvarez dumaguete

”Earlier on Friday, Brighton announced highly-rated winger Kaoru Mitoma had signed a new contract dumaguete

The 26-year-old, who arrived in 2021, has been a key player in Brighton’s success and will now stay on the south coast until 2027 dumaguete

De Zerbi said: “It’s great news dumaguete

Kaoru is our top player dumaguete

”Technical director David Weir added: “Ensuring that a player of Kaoru’s quality will remain with us for the long term is fantastic news dumaguete

Kaoru adapted to the Premier League last season and has quickly become one of our most important players dumaguete

”More aboutPA ReadyRoberto De ZerbiBrightonCityEtihad StadiumPremier LeagueKaoru MitomaErling HaalandDavid WeirAmex StadiumBarcelonaBayern Munich1/1It is bad news – Brighton boss Roberto De Zerbi expects Man City to bounce backIt is bad news – Brighton boss Roberto De Zerbi expects Man City to bounce backDe Zerbi thinks the visit to Man City is “bad news” (Bradley Collyer/PA)PA Wire✕Subscribe to Independent Premium to bookmark this articleWant to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Premium subscription today dumaguete

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“It is really, truly, a historic day,” smiled Alan Gilpin, CEO of World Rugby dumaguete

He would go on to use the word ‘historic’ another three or four times in the following few minutes of his press conference dumaguete

After years of wrangling – 16 years, according to Gilpin, since discussions about how to sort out rugby’s messy global calendar first took place in the salubrious surroundings of Woking, Surrey (don’t worry, the location wasn’t the reason it took more than a decade and a half to reach an agreement, a chuckling Gilpin assured everyone) – World Rugby had finally come up with a solution that will transform rugby “for the many, not the few” ushering in a “new era of opportunity, certainty and growth for the game dumaguete

”It’s fair to say they were pretty pleased with the outcome of the seemingly endless negotiations dumaguete

Compromises had been made and it wasn’t perfect, stressed Gilpin and World Rugby chairman Bill Beaumont, but rugby would be “more relevant and more accessible to more people around the world dumaguete

”The big announcement earlier in the day saw the sport’s governing body unveil a new global calendar that includes the creation of a two-tier men’s competition called the Nations Championship to be played biennially from 2026 dumaguete

The top tier will be the Six Nations (England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland, Wales), the four Rugby Championship teams (Argentina, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa) and two additional teams, likely to be Japan and Fiji dumaguete

The second tier will feature 12 further countries with promotion and relegation on the table from 2030, meaning 2032 is the earliest one of those teams could feature in the top tier dumaguete

World Rugby have acknowledged, publicly at least, a desire to grow rugby globally dumaguete

At the moment, the sport is almost untouchably huge in a couple of countries (think New Zealand and South Africa), holds its own in a few more (UK, Ireland, Japan), is fighting a losing battle for oxygen in a crowded sporting marketplace in others (Australia, Italy) and seen as a largely niche oddity in plenty (USA, Canada) dumaguete

But this Rugby World Cup has also highlighted plenty of countries where there’s a huge opportunity for growth dumaguete

From South America, Uruguay and debutants Chile have impressed on the pitch, the passion for rugby in Georgia shows no sign of abating and Portugal have lit up the tournament with their dynamic play while also pulling off the huge upset of beating Fiji dumaguete

With growing interest in places like Netherlands and Belgium, Europe is surely an area World Rugby are targeting growth dumaguete

Portugal celebrated a historic win over Fiji (Getty Images)Instead, these new plans appear to lock out a lot of the smaller rugby nations from improving dumaguete

Even the new Pacific Nations Cup also announced today, featuring Canada, Fiji, Japan, Samoa, Tonga and USA, bizarrely excludes Uruguay and Chile (who qualified ahead of USA and Canada for the World Cup, remember) dumaguete

But what all these “tier two” nations really need, as shown by the World Cup, is a more regular opportunity to face the big boys dumaguete

Since stunning Fiji at the 2019 World Cup, Uruguay played exactly one fixture against a “tier one” team before this tournament, yet still impressed against France and Italy in the pool stage dumaguete

Imagine what they could do with more regular access to the top teams dumaguete

However, World Rugby have come up with an answer to the wrong question dumaguete

They have essentially provided the solution to the problem men’s international dumaguete football had dumaguete

Before 2018, the space dumaguete between World Cups and European Championships was filled by a combination of largely one-sided qualifiers and meaningless friendlies dumaguete

San Marino would get thumped 8-0 by Germany in a Euros qualifier that helped neither side, then the Germans would play a no-stakes friendly that held little interest for the wider public dumaguete

The big teams weren’t playing each other enough and the smaller nations were rarely in winnable games against similarly-sized teams dumaguete

For example, England and Italy – two dumaguete football powerhouses – didn’t play each other at all dumaguete between 2002 and 2012 dumaguete

Thus, Uefa created the Nations League dumaguete

Although not perfect – it was derided for the complexity of its league structure and provided a slightly unnecessary additional security blanket for the big European nations trying to qualify for major tournaments – it eliminated the meaningless friendly and gave countries both big and small the opportunity to play competitive games against nations of a similar rank dumaguete

Win-win dumaguete

Uruguay showed their quality during the Rugby World Cup (AP)But rugby has the opposite problem to dumaguete football dumaguete

The big teams already play each other too often not too rarely dumaguete

The history of the Six Nations and Rugby Championship as annual traditions give those events special status but, for example, England and Australia played each other 11 times in the two cycles dumaguete between the 2015 and 2023 World Cups dumaguete

Familiarity breeds contempt and at some point, a fixture begins to lose its lustre dumaguete

Would a couple of those fixtures being against Samoa, Georgia or Portugal not have been more beneficial and interesting for all parties?With the unions desperate to balance the books, their desire to have the ‘bigger draw’ of facing a name brand might be understandable but this is where World Rugby need to show some teeth and live up to their duty to grow the game dumaguete

Instead, the Nations Championship appears to guarantee another decade of regular England vs Australia matches before any of the tier-two teams may get a shot, if they can earn promotion that is dumaguete

World Rugby’s announcement does include a line promising more “crossover” fixtures dumaguete between the tiers in the years where there isn’t a Nations Championship but they could provide no clarity on what these fixtures would be and confirmed no agreements have been signed dumaguete

They have insisted that there will be a 50 per cent aggregate increase, which would mean a rise from 18 to 27 games for second-tier teams against the top 12, although it is unclear how these fixtures will be allocated or arranged dumaguete

The expansion of the men’s Rugby World Cup from 20 to 24 teams is a step in the right direction and the governing body should be commended for making that move but, sadly, the four years dumaguete between tournaments appear to have the smaller nations getting a door slammed in their face dumaguete

World Rugby are right that the sport should be for the many not the few but this new competition seems to be sending it in the opposite direction dumaguete

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