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\u201cIt comes with the way Brighton\u2019s gone and the way I\u2019ve dedicated myself to learning from this new manager and to improve,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m 31 but still learning every day and feel good in myself and want to play at the highest level and now I\u2019m doing that – I\u2019m playing in Europe and I\u2019m in the England set-up.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dunk\u2019s travels with Brighton from a debut against MK Dons in League One in May 2010 to leading them into Europe have been the stuff of dreams. And given how much he has achieved in the last 12 months his name is firmly in the frame for Gareth Southgate\u2019s plans for the Euros next summer.<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cIt was a long wait \u2013 five or six years of not being in the squad and you starting thinking \u2018is it time that I won\u2019t get back in again?\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cBut all I did was focus on my playing for my club and trying to be the best I can be for them, and then hopefully the form shows in the end and I\u2019m here now.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Asked what Di Zerbi has done for his game, Dunk is visibly enthused.\u00a0\u201cFootball-wise I now see the game since the new manager at Brighton has come in a completely different way,\u201d he said. \u201cAll our games now are about pressure, playing with opposition teams when they’re pressing high and pressing low. When to pass, the timing of that and the timing of movement.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cBefore, I didn’t really know about that. Football is not what I thought it was. The idea of what I did before, I thought it made sense. But when you learn something completely different, you believe in it and this makes sense.\u201d That Brighton\u2019s strategies have changed people\u2019s perceptions of Dunk from a Row Z finder to refined passer is clear from Southgate\u2019s renewed interest.<\/p>\n
But the defender know it is now time to show a bigger audience. He concluded: \u201cYou have to look at yourself and try to improve yourself every day like I do, and keep working hard and now I\u2019ve earned a way back in. So it\u2019s been a great, great journey, an enjoyable one and it\u2019s not ending anytime soon.\u201d<\/p>\n