The Seagulls have already achieved the club’s previously stated targetd of a top-ten finish.
But De Zerbi has set the bar higher and aimed for European competition.
Ahead of Sunday’s game at Arsenal,
Roberto De Zerbi said: “We don’t feel the pressure because we fixed our target higher than normal situations. Before I started to work here, the target was tenth place and after two months I fixed the target in Champions League, Europa League and I am not afraid if we don’t achieve our target. You lose when you don’t fight, when you don’t compete, when you don’t try and you don’t fix the target higher. If we don’t achieve our target, we will lose nothing in my head. If I don’t achieve my target, you will say: ‘Roberto, you lose your target’. But I have a different vision, I have different opinion about this. To play five games in 15 days will be impossible, I think. But impossible was to achieve Europa League three or four months ago.”
