00:00Harun, congratulations. Is that just about the best feeling you've had managing a football team?
00:07It's hard to say, but in here and the sound of the two last goals were amazing.
00:16That is something that we can keep. For the future it was a good feeling, but in the end of the game
00:24you go to the semi-finals, but you need to win it.
00:27If you go to the semi-finals, you don't win it, it's the same feeling.
00:31We just need to focus on the next stage and try to win the competition.
00:364-2 down, it's difficult to keep scoring tonight, but did you genuinely still have that belief
00:42that you could come back or did you think deep down that maybe it was coming?
00:46You think it's hard, but you try to make some changes or try to push the players
00:53and to force yourself to give energy to the players.
00:56In this stadium, in this club, you always have that feeling that anything can happen.
01:02Today was another day like that.
01:05Ruben, is it possible to detach yourself from the kind of chaos that's going on?
01:11I know how you celebrated at the end, but how are you feeling in those moments inside?
01:19What does that feel like as a football manager?
01:22I think that's why we like this sport so much and all the frustration that the coach has in this kind of season.
01:31The frustration, the bad moments. When you have moments like this, it's all worth it.
01:39But then, you finish the game, you calm down and you start thinking that we have a game on Sunday.
01:45And then we have to see all the players, if they are fit to play, because we need to focus a lot on the Europa League.
01:52Hi Ruben, congratulations. I'm sure you would have liked a simple 2-0 win. I think we would write in the reports as well.
01:59How much can that ending fuel you? You obviously are going, the Premier League is important and nowhere near as important as the Europa League.
02:07So, how big can this moment be?
02:10I think these kind of moments can help a lot of players in this kind of season, in this kind of context.
02:19These kind of moments can create some connection between the fans and the players.
02:25And we can forget for a few minutes what kind of season we are having.
02:32But again, today is a good feeling, but tomorrow we need to start everything again.
02:38So, we need to focus on the next game, to focus on the players if they are fit to play.
02:43We have to take a risk to save some players.
02:46Because if you look at our season, the most important thing I think is clear for everybody is Europa League.
02:56Hi Ruben, what did you say to the players at half-time and extra time?
03:01Like, you know, 4-2 down at that stage, so many of them have been thinking, oh, we're done here.
03:08How do you lift a team in that moment?
03:10No, at the half-time in the extra time was to change the positions, to try to be really clear about the position of Harry Maguire,
03:21trying to put Casemiro near the goal, Kobe Mainu near the goal, Mason Mount to cross balls,
03:27and try to explain that we need to score one goal and anything can change.
03:33So, we try to push for the team, but of course it's a difficult moment.
03:36And then you have to be really lucky to change the game, and that's, I think, was the case today.
03:42Do you think we might see Harry Maguire in this kind of position again?
03:46He obviously stepped up to the plate in this crucial moment, but it feels like the squad being brittle like it is,
03:51particularly at the top, we might see this again.
03:54To play a normal game, no.
03:56But in these moments, it's something that is really important.
04:01Again, when I see Harry Maguire and I put Harry Maguire as a striker, I just see one guy that is inside the box.
04:07Is he good or not inside the box? So, in the opposite box, he's a striker, he's not a defender.
04:13He knows how to behave in that space.
04:17So, it's just to put the different characteristics in the different moments.
04:24I play against them in the pre-season with Sporting, so I know a little bit.
04:38Of course, it's a different moment.
04:40We know that they are really technical.
04:43They have two wingers really good.
04:46But we'll have time to assess all the characteristics of the opponent,
04:52and we need to focus a lot on what we need to do until that game.
04:57Because we need to, if you look at the team, especially in some moments in the end of the second half,
05:04the team was really tired.
05:06And you can feel in some players.
05:08And I felt Bruno Fernandes today a little bit tired.
05:11So, I need to be careful even with Bruno in the game before and between the next two games in the Europa League.
05:17I will try to do that.
05:18I will not promise, but I will try.
05:21I will try again.
05:24All rights for the time.
05:26It is coming.
05:30All rights reserved.
05:31And we'll try to do that.
05:35For the first time in the game,
05:38we'll try to improve yourself.
05:39And we'll try to improve yourself.
05:41And we'll try to do it.
05:43And, we'll try to improve yourself.
05:45And keep down below the game.
05:47And I would try to improve yourself.
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