00:00You said yesterday you were optimistic about what was going to happen this season.
00:11Did we see signs of that today?
00:14Yeah, but not for the 5-1s.
00:17In the locker room and the trainings and many things.
00:23We are creating a good team spirit with the staff, the staff, the players.
00:31Of course, we finished with a lot of late goals.
00:35The game was tough, it could not be different.
00:38It started really well the game, but after we dropped in the second half, the first action.
00:42Just go to Nico and Nico O'Reilly make a movement with his power until the end.
00:49He sends us a message the way you have to play.
00:52We did it.
00:54In the second half, we found the goals and were miles better than the last 20-25 minutes of the first half.
01:02A lot of standout performances, but Erling will take the headlines again for his two late goals.
01:08It's his job, two goals, and the cross from Josco and Mikanasis from Mateus for the 2-1.
01:16He's an important figure for us.
01:18He's always had chances because the first half have won in one corner.
01:22Dubrak can make a good save.
01:24He always has the feeling that he can score.
01:28I'm really pleased again for the performance for the teams.
01:32I think since the United game, the team showed another way, another body language.
01:38Even not playing good against Arsenal, how they defend, how they help each other.
01:42That, as I said many times, is the key for everything.
01:45After improving the details, improving the second half, why Tijani and Nico O'Reilly should move completely different than they were.
01:54In that position, that was really good.
01:57Richard?
01:58Hi Pep, just wanted to ask about Matias Nunes.
02:02Did the goal and also the cross for the third goal show what he can give you in the final third?
02:07And also, could he have done better for the Burnley goal or is that being unfair on him?
02:12Burnley goal?
02:13Yeah, it was a cross in between there.
02:15He can defend.
02:16Yeah, maybe.
02:17I don't know.
02:18It was a mid deflection.
02:19But we need his physicality.
02:21I need to encourage you to his space to use more, you know, that energy they have.
02:27And, of course, with Joska and him, with Kusanov before, we have incredible legs to go backwards in the transition teams.
02:34But normally when you play, the teams like Burnley today decide to play.
02:38It's a long ball, second ball, especially transitions, and they can help us a lot.
02:42But as a midfield player in the final third, have the vision to do good passes, to good assists.
02:47And I encourage him to, you know, to try to do it again and again.
02:51You had Kyle on for Burnley.
02:54Also, with other players leaving like Jack, Kevin De Bruyne, these players, they know how to win a title.
03:01These players that you have now, a lot of them, will they have to kind of learn how to be in a title race?
03:07And what comes with that?
03:10Well, these new players, I have to know that this club has a culture that you have to win.
03:16Otherwise, they will not happen when they happen in the last decade that we have been by far, but by far, the best team in England.
03:21In terms of numbers and everything.
03:23But when you arrive in this club, in the training session, and all the patterns, all I would say, all the mentality that you have to be,
03:32every training session, do your best, do best, the players feel that.
03:36But when we won the Premier League in the past or the titles, never thought about that after six Premier League games.
03:44It's just how we have to do to win the game and be better for the next game, for the next game.
03:49And this question, of course, we are a young, young team today.
03:54Important players like Bernardo, like John, like Nathan, you know, didn't play.
03:58And players like maybe were not used to playing in the past a lot.
04:02But I think the team is really good.
04:04Always I repeat them.
04:05You are so good, guys.
04:06You are so good.
04:07And hopefully you can believe me.
04:11Hi Pep, I wanted to have a word for Jeremy Doku, who seems to, this season, have really taken on the mantle of being the creative force in the team.
04:19And not only does he have confidence that he can be decisive, his teammates appear to have it as well.
04:23It was noticeable how often they were passing to him, for him to run again and again at his defender.
04:28And how many times Bernie had to send two or three players over to go and try and stop him.
04:33Absolutely.
04:34I asked to the wingers in the final third goal, one against one or one against two.
04:38And I had the feeling that Jeremy, his decision making in the final third improved like, wow, comparing in the past.
04:46Making assists to Erling and the goals and see the channels.
04:51And of course, he's an incredible threat against teams that are low, broken deep.
04:55Jeremy is really, really important.
04:59But really important.
05:00When the team is more the transitional, maybe he can struggle a little bit.
05:04But with the team is, because he had the ball and bring the opponent to the box.
05:10Bring him there.
05:11And after that, now he's reading to read good.
05:14For example, the second goal, because when Jeremy go there, two or three opponents go there.
05:19They don't allow them to go one against one, because one against one is unstoppable.
05:23There is no winger in five, ten metres stronger than Jeremy. Impossible.
05:27Go left, go right.
05:28But now it's reading when the opponents go two or three, whereas the other men will be free to create a cross,
05:35to get an extra pass and improve a lot.
05:37And the second goal is a perfect example of that.
05:40Just go make a good cross and after.
05:42Yeah, we were lucky that immediately a good action, Mateus, with a good cross, make it a third.
05:48Yeah, it was really good.
05:50Afternoon, Pep. Erling is playing really well. Would you say this is the best level you've seen from him?
05:56And have you asked him to do anything different?
05:58I had the feeling that we had to find him more when the team is a low, low block.
06:02When we arrived in there, we had to find him more.
06:04Still, the first half was not much, much involved.
06:07We have to find him from outside, from the feet, between the channels.
06:12We have to find him more.
06:14Otherwise, Erling cannot be for a long, long time.
06:17We're not being involved in just defending the set pieces or for long balls.
06:21But it's what I said in the past or recently.
06:25So the question is improve the team game by game and do it better.
06:29And now we have again on Wednesday an incredibly important game in Monaco, the Champions League.
06:34We struggled a lot to be there.
06:37And after Brentford, that we saw today against Chelsea in the past or today against United,
06:43what they are capable of.
06:45You're just saying about needing to find Erling more when you're playing teams like Burnley.
06:51What does that actually look like?
06:52Do you need Foden or someone like Foden up with him at all times?
06:57Listen, you have to know that against low block, they have three central defenders with him.
07:03Three, always.
07:06And a block for the four holding midfielders there.
07:09So the space is so difficult for him.
07:11But even with that, when we bring the ball outside, always we can find him.
07:15And sometimes in there when it's a block, you make across the second pose or in the first pose.
07:20And every pass back had to make himself some movement to find him.
07:25Because Erling is so strong there, you know.
07:28And the ball, okay, second ball after we can use it.
07:31Because the space is so, so minor.
07:33And every time we are reading better and better these kind of situations.
07:37And we cannot complain.
07:39Even the team, the game maybe will not be so involved.
07:42Have four clear, clear chances to score goals.
07:45Erling is that.
07:46You know, the numbers are insane.
07:48So it looks like a joke, but it's really, really incredible.
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