00:00Alexander has had five appearances now, so I'm just wondering how you feel he's settling in.
00:06Yeah, I said to him when he started, the difficult thing will be you will have your appearances,
00:12like you just said, but if you add the minutes together,
00:16you probably only have two or three 90-minute games.
00:19But yeah, that is what we inherited from the situation of him not being with the team in Newcastle.
00:27And we knew this before, so it's not an excuse.
00:31He already scored a goal, he gets fitter and fitter,
00:34but the main thing, he needs to adjust to his teammates, and the teammates need to adjust to him.
00:38And the more you play together, the better things will work.
00:41There was a great moment, not great because it didn't end up the way I wanted,
00:45but he had a great counter-movement in the Palace game,
00:48where in the end the midfield didn't see that,
00:51and he already played the ball to the right.
00:53If he would have seen it, he would have been one-on-one to the goalkeeper.
00:55So these are the things you get if you play more together.
00:58And playing more together has been a bit harder than last season
01:03because of Alexander Rizak, because of Mike Alistair, because of Connor Bradley,
01:06that Dominic Soberslay has played on eight, on ten, on right full-back,
01:10for the reasons I just said.
01:13But we are, in my opinion, too focused on this season.
01:23But the second part of last season had a lot of similarities with the start of this season.
01:28With one exception is that the second part of last season we scored seven set-piece goals,
01:32which led to a lot of wins.
01:34And this season we've conceded four, I think.
01:37So we played tomorrow at Chelsea.
01:39I think they scored more than 50% of their goals from set-pieces.
01:42So this is the new reality in the Premier League.
01:45And we were doing this really well the second part of last season.
01:51And this season we have had many good chances from set-pieces as well.
01:56Unfortunately we didn't score yet.
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