Evolution Key to Buriram United FC Success, Says Coach Jackson Head coach Mark Jackson believes ASEAN Club Championship Shopee Cup™ title holders Buriram United FC have undergone an evolution rather than a wholesale revolution since he took over as the long-term replacement for Osmar Loss last October. Jackson will have the perfect opportunity to showcase how his team has developed since he was appointed when he leads the Thai champions into the first leg of the last 16 AFC Champions League Elite clash with Melbourne City on Tuesday. It was the Australian side who handed Jackson a 2-1 defeat in his debut appearance on the touchline for his new employers and the Englishman is keen to highlight the progress that has been made since losing to a late Max Caputo goal. “When I arrived the team were in good shape, good players playing well who had had some good results and had a good start to the season. So I’d probably use the word evolve,” Jackson says of how his team has changed since his previous trip to Melbourne. “We’ve evolved as a team, into my style of how I want my team to look. The boys have been really receptive to that since I came. It was really difficult in the first game to get that across. We’ve had a shift in formation but more importantly, the behaviours that we have shown on a regular basis have become more prominent. We’re more creative, we score more goals. We’ve seen that in our recent campaigns but we’ve also shown that we are resilient and defensively strong in the AFC Champions League Elite, particularly in the last few games with the clean sheets that we’ve had. It’s not a case of me improving the team. We had good players before and those are still good players but we’ve evolved how we want to play and the players have really taken that on board.#mark_jackson #melbourne_city #afc_champions_league_elite #buriram_united_fc #shopee_cup
