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There is a scene in Moneyball where Brad Pitt’s character Billy Beane takes a baseball bat to a stereo because his team, the Oakland A’s, had lost a game and didn’t deserve any music.
Having seen what Roberto De Zerbi did to his miniature TV monitor by the dugout — sending it crashing to earth after watching a replay of Brighton goalkeeper Jason Steele make a mistake — you feared for the safety of any other electrical devices in the dressing room after this draw.
De Zerbi did not want to see any of Brighton’s players pleased with this point. No music. No joking around with one another. No celebrations after Alexis Mac Allister’s 90th-minute VAR-awarded penalty made it 3-3.
Plenty of other managers might have been tempted to celebrate a draw against a talented Brentford team. But not De Zerbi, and not Brighton, and not when they are striving for Europe.
Moneyball is relevant because that 2011 film details a data-driven way to win and that is the Brighton model.
Roberto De Zerbi was left frustrated after Saturday's dramatic draw with Brentford
They do it differently under the owner, Tony Bloom. They sign players like Kaoru Mitoma from Japanese club Kawasaki Frontale, and Moises Caicedo from Ecuadorian side Independiente del Valle, and turn them into Premier League stars.
Brighton pummelled Brentford’s
