00:00Congratulations. Another clean sheet, another three points. You must be delighted.
00:14Thank you. Yeah, very delighted.
00:19Extremely proud of the players' performance.
00:22I think it was an exceptionally good performance.
00:26I think the first 35 minutes, a couple of things.
00:28We know it's always difficult to play against City.
00:31He had Etihad, even more difficult.
00:34The first 35 minutes of thought was fairly even, but with City on top.
00:39I think they were more on top than us.
00:42Big mentality shift in terms of staying in the game and keep doing what we wanted to do.
00:48Scoring a great goal.
00:51Maybe that changed a little bit momentum, but we definitely stayed on top, scored 2-0.
00:55Second half, I think we were very good.
00:58And the big spell where we could think that they would put pressure on us.
01:03I think we were very aggressive in the high pressure.
01:05I thought that we were very front-footed with the mindset to constantly go for the 3-0 goal.
01:11And then I must say that the clean sheet makes me very happy.
01:18It's a big thing we've been working on.
01:21Not on clean sheets.
01:22That's easier said than done.
01:24But on the defensive side of the game, high pressure, middle block, low block, defender box, mentality, blocking shots, everything.
01:31Because if you get clean sheets, you're closer to win a game.
01:35And also last year we had six clean sheets.
01:38So that's very big for me.
01:42So many good individual performances, of course.
01:44But you've got Jao Pelinha in.
01:45First goal for the club.
01:46How important is that kind of combination with Rodrigo Bente?
01:49I think it's fair to say that we got a few questions about the transfer market yesterday.
01:56A lot about why not and what if and all that.
02:00But I'm 100% sure.
02:01We brought two top players into the club.
02:04Kudos and Pelinha.
02:05Both of them performed very well.
02:07Which I'm very pleased with.
02:08And Pelinha, wow.
02:10You know, sometimes players need confidence and they need to be on top.
02:17And I actually don't think he's fully fit yet where I want him to be.
02:22But very pleased with his performance.
02:24And he's definitely helping the team.
02:27Obviously, in the Super Cup you were 2-0 up and you played really well.
02:30But you couldn't get over the line that time.
02:32This time obviously felt very different.
02:34What were the lessons you took from the Super Cup and what was different today?
02:37I think, yeah, good question.
02:43We, of course, reference it or are reference it at halftime.
02:46When you're tired, keep going.
02:48That was one thing.
02:50Two, that we had to keep being brave on the ball.
02:52And three, we had to keep being good in the high pressure.
02:56Also, that's easier said than done.
02:58But from every game you learn, from games where you not get the result you want,
03:02you learn maybe even more.
03:07And then I think in some ways, of course, the other thing was a final.
03:10This was away at Ethiad, one of the most difficult places to go to.
03:15But the defensive principles are more and more.
03:18And then I think the mentality is the key thing.
03:20You need mentality to win games like this.
03:22You spoke yesterday about for each match,
03:24how you sort of compile three key themes.
03:27Build your principles around that.
03:28What were the three key ones that you felt?
03:32Defensive side of the game.
03:34Be brave in phase one and two.
03:36And set pieces.
03:36I think that's very, very easy.
03:53Never, ever use one word about any player.
03:56It's not in our club.
03:56Thomas, I think it was one of your counterparts, Jürgen Klopp,
04:02that said something along the lines of there's no better playmaker in football
04:07than an effective press, essentially.
04:09What did you make of that statement?
04:11Who said that, sorry?
04:12Jürgen Klopp?
04:13Jürgen Klopp, yeah.
04:18That was a good, clever man, huh?
04:19I need to text him and say, hey, that's okay, clever.
04:25I definitely believe in the aggressive press,
04:30as you saw today, as you saw with my Brentford team.
04:34I believe in the high pressure.
04:36I believe in if we can be front-footed.
04:37I like that mentality.
04:38I think it's offensive.
04:40It's a more offensive way of defending.
04:43And then it's more fun to defend on the opponent's half.
04:47And, of course, today I think we were very successful.
04:49I also scored a goal from it.
04:51So, yeah, happy.
04:55I suppose Sarah as well,
04:56someone that's played in that number 10 position again today,
04:59moved back, I suppose, more to like an eight last week,
05:02but pushed into that position again today against PSG,
05:04a similar thing, so effective in that kind of pressing role.
05:07Yeah, definitely.
05:09And you can say there's a few things.
05:11It depends from game to game.
05:14Players in different positions.
05:17But today he was very good, like the rest of the team.
05:22I think it was difficult to pick one player today.
05:23I think everyone performed fantastic.
05:26Hi, Thomas.
05:27For the first goal, you managed to beat the Man City offside trap.
05:30It seemed to cause a lot of uncertainty, putting the ball over the top.
05:34Is that something that you had pinpointed as the exploit?
05:38Yeah, we talk about the high line.
05:40And one thing is to talk about it and try to train it.
05:44It's never that easy.
05:45So, to be fair, I also think we ran into offside six times before that.
05:49So, of course, the goal looks very successful.
05:52And that's what we look at.
05:54But there were a few times where we didn't do it well enough.
05:56But, yes, of course, we tried to look into it.
06:00Hi, Thomas.
06:01Hi.
06:01You went here a couple of years ago with an outstanding performance from your Brentford team.
06:05Was this performance even better, given that you've only just started to put your fingerprint on this first side?
06:11I think it's two different teams, two different contexts.
06:15But I think that both performances were top.
06:19And both performances, when I look back at and be very proud of.
06:23Final question, please.
06:25Hi, Thomas.
06:26You referenced earlier that you had quite a lot of questions about the transfer market in the build-up to this game.
06:30But is the result, the performance, a timely reminder that the success of a season, the success of a team,
06:35is not just about what you can do in a transfer market and the players you can bring in?
06:38I think it's extremely important that a couple of things that we understand.
06:43We have a good group of players, talented group of players, a group of good quality players that I'm very pleased with.
06:54So that's why we brought in two good players to help.
06:59Can we improve it?
07:01Perfect.
07:01If we can't, then we have very good players.
07:05We just showed that today.
07:05So, yes, I'm very happy with that.
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