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Brighton drew 1-1 to Fulham in their opening Premier League fixture and boss Fabian Hurzeler believes his team should look at the positives.

"For sure it feels painful," Hurzeler told BBC Sport.

"It's really important to take the positives away. We played well and defended good. We should score the second goal and I think the game would be over. That's football.

"It's very difficult to say [if they could have defended the equaliser better]. It's more about avoiding the corner. The ball is deflected so it's not easy to defend. We have to accept it.

"We controlled most of the first half, although there were not a load of chances. We had to be patient."

• Hear more from Hurzeler speaking to BBC Radio Sussex

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• Brighton are unbeaten on the opening day of the Premier League season in each of the last five campaigns (W4 D1), with today being the first time they've drawn their opening fixture (W5 L3 prior).

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Brighton boss Fabian Hurzeler hands a Premier League debut to left-back Maxim De Cuyper while fellow newbies Diego Coppola and Olivier Boscagli are on the bench.

Brighton XI: Verbuggen, Dunk, van Hecke, Wieffer, De Cuyper, O'Riley, Ayari, Baleba, Minteh, Mitoma, Rutter.

Subs: Steele, Gruda, Welbeck, Milner, Boscagli, Kadioglu, Gomez, Veltman, Coppola.

Fulham's only signing of the summer, goalkeeper, Benjamin Lecomte is on the bench.

Fulham XI: Leno, Tete, Bassey, Anderson, Cuenca, Lukic, Berge, Wilson, Iwobi, Jimenez, King.

Subs: Lecomte, Reed, Muniz, Cairney, Adama, Pereira, Castagne, Diop, Emile Smith Rowe.