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me, but a special guy. We had a good conversation from the day we met and we have kept that. “It is always special to play against friends so to play against Juan will be nice. I have been talking a lot with him and look forward to seeing him. “Juan is really professional and as we all know a great player. “He has been through some hard times when he was not playing, but always likes to do his talking on the pitch.” Mata joined Chelsea for £23.5m in 2011 but Bruno’s five-year journey in English football was initially not as straightforward. Brighton face United for the first time in the league since 1983 and Bruno said: “The city and fans have been waiting so long for moments like this. But we were ready as a club with the training ground and stadium.

“Our aim is to stay in the Premier League because that will be a massive step for the club.

“It will be tough because a lot of teams have got a lot of money. But football is all about small details.

“When I was playing for Almeria we won promotion to La Liga and everyone was saying we would be relegated as the bottom team. But we ended up finishing eighth. We have to work hard, try to make the right decisions and see where that takes us.” United have gone 38 games, stretching over 16 months, without losing on their own patch.

And Bruno admits surprise packages Brighton will have to produce a faultless display to stand a chance of beating Jose Mourinho’s men.

He added: “We have to play the perfect game. We need to be really solid and need to run. When we have the ball we have to try and keep it.

“That is our game plan and we look forward to it. Games like this are what promotion is all about, playing at the biggest grounds against the best teams and the best players.”