Leandro Trossard will miss Brighton’s residence Premier League match towards Liverpool on Saturday after supervisor Roberto De Zerbi punished him for leaving coaching with out permission. The 28-year-old Belgian ahead disappeared after being instructed he wouldn’t begin final weekend’s FA Cup third-round tie towards Middlesbrough, which Brighton received 5-1. Trossard, who scored a hat-trick at Anfield in a 3-3 attract October, has been linked with a January switch to top-flight rivals Tottenham.

“Leandro isn’t in the list of players for tomorrow,” the Italian coach stated on Friday.

“The last training session before the Middlesbrough game when he understood he didn’t play, he left the session without saying anything to me. And it’s not good.

“The Monday after, I spoke with him and I defined this angle, this behaviour, I do not like.”

De Zerbi added: “He is aware of very properly that if he needs to play with Brighton, with me, he has to work laborious, he has to run, he must be in the precise method as a result of we aren’t an enormous staff corresponding to Real Madrid or Barcelona.

“We are Brighton and we need players who work like the others who stay in Brighton.

“I do not know what’s the drawback. I wish to be clear, I’m open with him to take a step again and hearken to him however he has to know with me, I need solely gamers who work laborious and play for the staff 100%.”

“I do not know in regards to the switch market, if he needs to vary groups or not,” De Zerbi said.

“It’s not my drawback. I’m solely a coach…. Leo is among the greatest gamers on this squad. I perceive one thing about soccer.

“But I know also to achieve the result we have to be a group and to think for the team before ourselves. This is (one of) the first rules in my head.”

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