00:00Arne, obviously it's another disappointing night, how do you assume your emotions?
00:13Like you said, disappointing, again, you're always hoping if you win a game of football
00:19during the week, although it's only two days rest when you come over here, that of course
00:27you are hoping for a better result, but I was also hoping and expecting a better performance
00:32because the performance was far from what we are used to, even if we're losing, our performances
00:40have been better than tonight.
00:42What would you identify most in that performance that you were disappointed with?
00:49Doing the basics right.
00:53Although if you're 1-0 down, 2-1 down, 3-1 down with the energy in the stadium, that's
00:59definitely helpful for them and they are a very good team in winning duels and winning
01:03second balls, so you have to give them credit for that as well, but of course it's hard to
01:11win a game of football if the other team wins more duels, more second balls than you, especially
01:16if that is also something they are playing of, and again, like I've said many times, it's
01:24also difficult to win a game of football if the set-piece balance is in their favour.
01:28That first throw, I think it was their second long throw that they scored from, I presume
01:35you've been preparing for that.
01:37Yeah.
01:38Yeah.
01:39Yeah.
01:40It's the only thing we did yesterday on the training pitch, preparing for that and the
01:45meeting today, so that's not the only thing we prepared them for because Brentford is also
01:52known for very good set-pieces, but they are also, in my opinion, known for a fantastic counter-attack,
02:01and that was their second goal, and I think at this moment of time, and that's why it should
02:09never be seen as an excuse, but if I say it was a soft penalty, I hope you guys are not
02:14going to tell me that that is a soft or bad excuse, but it was a very soft penalty to concede.
02:22I think you made a couple of technical adjustments at half-time, changing from back 4-2 to 4-3-1,
02:29bringing Burtz more inside and Salah to the right, but what was the idea behind that?
02:33No, I think Florian played in the first half also a lot on the inside, but Mo played a little
02:39bit more central as well, like we did this week against Frankfurt, but if you are 2-1 down,
02:45I was expecting the second half then maybe in moments to be a bit lower and then it's always
02:51good to have Mo on the side, where he can get his crosses in his 1v1s, but it wasn't
02:58as if the second half was completely ours, that was definitely not the situation, they were
03:02in the game a lot, and although we scored a 3-2 and maybe we had a few moments to score
03:09a 3-2, they definitely also had their moments to already score a 4-1, also score a 4-1.
03:16The most of the defeats recently, and going back to last season, you've been fairly pleased
03:21with the performance, but do you think it's fair to say this is the most disappointed you've
03:25been with the performance or certainly up there in my time here?
03:29Yeah, I think it's up there in my time here in terms of losing a game of football, because
03:36normally when we're 2-1 down or 3-1 down or 1-0 down, oh by the way, after we went 1-0 down,
03:42that was the only 20-25 minutes I really liked from our game today, unfortunately we had
03:47a great moment with Florian that didn't lead to a goal, because then you need maybe to have
03:51a little bit of luck that those moments can bring you back into the game and can give us
03:57the energy, but after 30 minutes I think they took the game again with long throw-ins and
04:04set pieces and other moments where they were just really good, so again please don't focus
04:10on what I've just said, so they did many things well.
04:15And then I think again it is a crucial moment where just before they scoot to 2-0, there was
04:22a moment where Cody dribbled inside the box and they didn't play the ball.
04:27I think if you would show both situations where the penalty we conceded and that moment,
04:33and you showed this to every referee in the world, he would tell you maybe both or nothing,
04:37but if I have to give one of the two, I definitely would give the one to Cody.
04:42But yeah, bad luck for us was that the referee, I don't think he was intended to give a penalty
04:46for that, but he thought, let's give him a free kick.
04:48But yeah, then the far side, yeah, it's inside, so then if you think it's a free kick then
04:53it's a penalty, so that bad luck maybe comes if you play a game like football like we did
04:59today.
05:00Amir?
05:01Amir, so in a bigger picture, what do you think is happening to explain the difference
05:09from last season? Have teams found you out? Is it trying to adapt to all the new signings
05:16you've made? Is there, do you think, any sort of feeling that the team's lost its level of
05:26performance after the huge high of winning the title? What's led to the dip?
05:34No, quite a few things what you were just saying could have something to do with that. It's
05:38definitely, I've said this many times already, that teams have a certain playing style against
05:45us, which is a very good strategy to play and we haven't found that answer yet and that
05:52every time going 1-0 down doesn't really help as well after five minutes. So it's a bit
06:00of that that teams know which strategy to play against us. We are still, even today when we
06:08don't play well, able to score two goals and create more chances than only the two goals
06:12we've scored from open play. But you cannot even compete, which we don't do at the moment,
06:21we don't compete up there because we simply concede too many goals. And that is not something
06:27I only look at our defence because that's something we do with 11 players together. And it definitely
06:34also has to do with if you change quite a lot during the summer, then I think it's not a
06:42surprise that it can go a bit like this, but I didn't expect it to go with four losses in
06:48a row, let that be clear. But that is always a bit of a bumpy road if you change, that is
06:53not so surprising, but four losses in a row. And I don't know if that has been seen as an excuse,
07:00but from the last six games we've played, it's been five away. So sometimes this is also not
07:06really helpful if you're in the run of form that we are.
07:09First-class is Curtis Jones' injury, right?
07:13We have to wait and see. He asked to be taken off, but he didn't go off. He walked off instead
07:22of needing a lot of treatment, so I have to wait and see. It's a lot of games. In three days,
07:26there's another one. Four maybe, but there's another one. Yeah. Thank you, everyone. Thank
07:31you.
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