00:00Gerrit?
00:02Yes, sorry. Before we start, I would like to send my condolence to Paul,
00:09one of your colleagues that unfortunately this week passed away.
00:13In this moment, you realise that there are things that are much more important
00:18than a football game. So, my condolence to his family and the people around him.
00:24Thanks for that, Hinder.
00:26Is that the old Cole Palmer that we got used to seeing? Scoring goals, making goals, enjoying himself again?
00:32Yeah, probably from outside, but we saw call day by day on the training ground.
00:38And he's exactly in the same way. Scoring goal, happy, enjoyed the session.
00:43For sure, when he does not score goals, he's not happy.
00:49And the reason why is because he probably wants to help the team and the club to reach something important.
00:56Romeo and Lavia today got a standing ovation from the fans.
01:02Just come back from injury, but his level of performance was sensational.
01:06What did you think of it?
01:08You can see that we are a better team than Romeo.
01:12Unfortunately, he has been injured for the most part of the season.
01:16And probably in this moment also the difference between us and more clubs is because, unfortunately,
01:26we had many important players for us that they have been injured.
01:29Romeo is one of them. No doubt that West for Fana is another one.
01:33We had Niko two months. But in terms of Romeo, we show again today how important it is for the team and how good it is.
01:41Before he got his injuries, you were only about four points behind Liverpool.
01:46If it had stayed fit, could you have kept up that pace?
01:50I really think that Liverpool deserve to win the Premier. First of all because they have been consistent.
01:58Second is because they had consistently the squad available, something that unfortunately the rest not.
02:06But today, again, they show the reason why they won the Premier League.
02:13We didn't plan, I promise you, we didn't plan the game to defend deep.
02:18We planned the game to high-pressing in the way we always.
02:23But sometimes the other team is so good that you have to defend deep, you have to adapt,
02:28and the players deal with that very good.
02:31Congratulations. The last time we spoke, we talked about the journey you and the players are on.
02:37Massive win today. What will you and the players take from today and taking on to the final bit of the season?
02:43We go game by game. For sure, today's performance has been a good performance,
02:48especially for the effort of the players.
02:51But I think we had for sure some moments a little bit up and down for part of the season.
02:58But overall, I'm happy in the way the players are trying to do their job.
03:04And what's Cole Palmer's reaction tonight? How is he?
03:09He's happy for sure because he scored, because we won.
03:13But I didn't see Cole different from two months ago, three months ago.
03:18I said many times he scored 14 goals for us in 20 Premier League games.
03:21But, yeah, unfortunately he didn't score many goals in the last part of the season.
03:26But now we have three more games, we have also unfurtered the second leg,
03:31and hopefully he can help us until the end.
03:33Enzo?
03:34We saw that Robert Sanchez was fine and came back into the team,
03:37but how was Christo? You said you have maybe not played.
03:41Yeah, Christo will be out for, I think, not sure if one week, two weeks, we're going to see.
03:46But he will be out for the next, I don't know, 10 days, 15 days.
03:50Simon?
03:52Hey Enzo, just going back to Cole, how significant do you think the timing of him scoring
03:59and also just that performance in general with these three big league games coming up?
04:03Very important. Probably two games ago, three games ago, I said to you that if we want to reach Premier League,
04:09we need Niko and Cole goal. Niko score against Everton, give us three points,
04:14both they score today and if we want to be there and we want to finish top five,
04:19we need Cole and Niko goal and hopefully they can score some more goals until the end.
04:24Did you expect him to shoot in the touchline, by the way, when you watched that live?
04:31Cole is that kind of player that he can do things that no one expects
04:38because they are different players.
04:41So when he has the ball, I expect anything because he can do anything.
04:45Peter?
04:46Hi Enzo, the celebrations after the goal, you can see what it meant to all of Cole's teammates.
04:51How much of a lift is that for everyone else in the group?
04:54Do you think that can give the players his teammates belief as well?
04:57They are...
04:59My feeling is that it's already a long time that from when you work with the players every day,
05:07I have the feeling that they are all on the same page and they are all in the same direction
05:13with the way we want to play but also in terms of creating the right culture,
05:17that I think is so important.
05:21This was also the first time you've fielded the same team in the Premier League for six months.
05:26How important is that and do you feel like this is close to your strongest team?
05:30I think we had some players on the bench that also helped us a lot this season.
05:36Rhys James is one of them, Tosin is one of them, Jadon was one of them.
05:41And the rest, you see, we played the semi-final the other day, Keenan was very good.
05:46I mean, it's important if you want to fight for something that all of them go in one direction.
05:52In the middle, please.
05:53Enzo, celebrations at the end of the game were very loud.
05:58The coaching staff were very excited at the end of the game, you were on the pitch as well.
06:03How much of a momentum does a result like this against the Champions give Chelsea for these remaining three fixtures?
06:09Because the two of them are pretty tough, Newcastle away and Forest away, also looking for Champions League spots.
06:14Yeah, and United at all, they're going to be all tough.
06:17But now you have to go game by game.
06:19And the reason why the coaching staff, the players at the end were so happy, even the fans,
06:24is because at this stage of the season you need to win games.
06:28That's for sure, probably.
06:29Today's environment for me was the best environment of this season with the fans.
06:33This is what we need every game, fantastic.
06:35It's so good, and yeah.
06:38We'll do two more in the middle here and then Martin.
06:42Hi Enzo, I have a question.
06:43What is the advantage at this stage of the season?
06:46The teams that are chasing or the chased ones in terms of pressure and everything else?
06:50That's a good question. I don't know, to be honest.
06:56No, it's difficult because if you are there, the ones in behind want to chase you.
07:01If you are chasing...
07:03I don't know, the only thing I would like is to finish top five at the end of the season.
07:07Martin, to finish top five, please.
07:09You had that situation at Leicester at the end of last season when it was quite touch-and-go,
07:13but you found a way.
07:15Is there anything from that experience that you will bring into the way you manage the team?
07:20Do you have to try and keep them calm over the next three weeks?
07:24Because it can be twitchy and edgy and you've got to make sure the players are in the right frame of mind.
07:30So, are there any lessons that you might have learned about keeping yourself?
07:35For sure, the last year experience has been great in that sense.
07:39You can learn things.
07:41In my personal opinion, when you don't win games and you struggle with results,
07:47you have always to analyse the game.
07:49For sure, we didn't win some games where we were not good enough,
07:52but also I think we didn't win games where the team was good and deserved to win.
07:56So, it's game by game, analyse the game and see how we can improve.
08:01Okay, thanks guys.
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