00:00That role as being back up to Erling has always been quite difficult for people
00:04because they don't always get the chance to play as a No. 9.
00:07How is Omar adjusting to that and is it beneficial that he can play maybe a few more positions than others?
00:11He was with a long injury, we come back and Omar and Erling can play together.
00:16So we don't need a proper winger in the side so there are players that can avoid better
00:20but we need to play as close to Erling in the gaps between fullbacks and central defenders
00:26between position to second position and need intensity.
00:30Omar is the best, if we need a player close to the box, Omar is the best that we have alongside there
00:35but we need more players in the pockets, more in smaller spaces, more control
00:38and the other ones are better so it depends on what we need in the teams
00:44what we need maybe sometimes in the moment like with last season
00:46that the fullback is wide and the winger is inside, he's top.
00:51But obviously he can't replicate exactly what Erling does
00:53so it's an opportunity as well for the players around him to learn more about him in the No. 9 role potentially.
00:58He can play number 9 potential as well, he can play number 9 so the numbers Erling is so important,
01:04it's impressive and he scored many of the goals we score but when we need goals
01:10that is sometimes the case, Omar is important, he's been back.
01:14Look at the few minutes arrive for less than one inch offside and make the action to
01:19we could equalise against Aston Villa so Omar had this quality but still is young and I still have a margin to improve.
01:26Hi Pep. There's been a few statistics come out today about the Premier League as a whole.
01:37that there's fewer goals being scored per game than there has been in the last 10 years
01:43and the ball is only in play for like 55 minutes a game.
01:47Now I know you always say that everyone's able to play however they want to play tactically
01:53but as someone who loves the game are you looking at the division and going this is not the same as it was?
02:01Not as entertaining?
02:03No, the football is the same, 11 against 11, the same width, it just evolves,
02:09like it's always the process since the football seems to appear, I don't know,
02:13when they start, centuries, in the 40s, 50s, 70s, 80s,
02:17both in details, that is normally in the people he has through,
02:21use every throw in like a corner and put ten players there in the box,
02:26we saw the game against, we suffer, you know, when we play in Brentford or Liverpool,
02:31Brentford-Liverpool, we're in the hotel and saw how every action, you know,
02:35Coyade put the ball in the box and after Coyade was man of the match,
02:39so today is a football, like I said, this is a threat,
02:43but yeah, it's another part, like you can say, tactic, defensive, offensive,
02:48and many, many aspects in the air and of course we are working on it or pay attention on it,
02:54but in the end I have the feeling that as much you could play,
02:58you can see less corners and less throw-ins,
03:00and we can see a lot, a lot, a lot of corners,
03:03for example against Arsenal, we didn't concede a goal,
03:06it's just because we didn't control the game, we controlled the game,
03:09I remember a long time ago with Sean Dyke and Bartley,
03:12that Bartley was an incredible threat in the long balls, second balls,
03:16Sean Dyke is one of the best by far doing this kind of aspects,
03:20so it's not new, he did it before, or Sam Allardyce,
03:24or I remember I was not here, Stock City,
03:27remember Stock City when Mega Throat then?
03:30It happened at that time, so it's not new,
03:32now it's just more and more teams doing that,
03:34but before maybe Stock City was the exception.
03:37I remember I was in Barcelona, but I don't remember,
03:40listen to Arsene Wenger talk about going and playing Stock City,
03:43you know, but now it happened a lot, a lot of times,
03:45but I remember within Bartley, like it was tough,
03:48we concede one corner maybe, or not even one corner,
03:50why? Because we were controlling the second balls,
03:52our pace and our control was much, much,
03:55and these kind of games, the best way to defend is in that way.
03:59I think for that you have to be good in a lot of aspects,
04:03and we are working on it, and I will, until the end,
04:08I will continue, continue to work mainly in our game,
04:13and sometimes of course adapt, when they have to do it,
04:17we adapt in Brentford incredibly well,
04:20James make an incredible job seducing our players,
04:24how we should defend this kind of action,
04:26which is unbelievable, the same in Arsenal,
04:28and at the same time when we have our threats and our chances
04:31to kick free-key corners, to try to be more productive,
04:34that, yeah, we are doing.
04:37But most of the division have sort of seen set pieces work
04:42for a team like Arsenal, for example,
04:44and I want to follow that,
04:46but you're sort of saying that you would still rather stick to how you want to.
04:52Every manager do what I will believe.
04:56Of course I'm not concerned, but I'm focused on that,
04:59I want to score in free-kicks and corners, of course,
05:02I'm not naive of that, you know, I want it.
05:06But when I spend my time, I spend time what you have to do to play better,
05:12and defend better, and make up better, and attack better,
05:15and create the chances, and one against one,
05:17in front of the keeper score goals,
05:19defensively you have to be more aggressive in the duels,
05:22and all the aspects that I see in the game, you know,
05:25that, of course, I pay attention, but I know I'm not the manager to, you know,
05:30to try to, you know, to, what I have done all my career.
05:34So, and now, of course, when the opponent, we are not good,
05:37and it's a threat, like Spurs, like it happened to Thomas Frank with Brentford,
05:42and now with the Spurs, that they score three goals,
05:46two goals were in set pieces, and the goal disallowed for Everton was in corner again.
05:50So, all three goals, one disallowed, two was in set pieces.
05:53It's a reality, I'm not naive to say, I don't pay attention, of course.
05:58I don't want to concede the goals, and most of the goals come from there,
06:01you know, from these kind of actions,
06:03and the people, I'm pretty sure, spent a lot of time there.
06:06You know, the goal we conceded in Aston Villa was a corner,
06:09and another chance, we had a chance, Aston Villa was a corner,
06:13and the other chances was one transition,
06:15and because we didn't control well the positions,
06:20like it happened in Alilal in the World Cup,
06:23but the rest, we were really, really good in Aston Villa.
06:27So, I know that, I know it's an important situation, the reality,
06:32maybe it didn't happen when I arrived,
06:34maybe against Burnley, or maybe when that team didn't happen,
06:37and now it's a fact, and of course you have to pay attention with that.
06:40But, still I dream to work a lot and play,
06:45when they have the ball, what they have to do,
06:47or when we have the ball, what they have to do.
06:50Hi, Pep.
06:51Excuse me.
06:52Will any academy players be involved?
06:54Divine.
06:55Divine.
06:56Are you able to say which ones might get...
06:58Divine, Divine come with us.
07:00Okay.
07:01And how does it work that when you come to selecting players from the academy,
07:05because they've got a game tonight, haven't they?
07:07How do you kind of go about...
07:08Well, I remember the part with Brian Diaz, with Cole Palmer,
07:11with, I don't know, Morgan, but there are many, many players dosing,
07:16many, many players since I arrived at the academy in this competition play a lot,
07:19and it's an incredible opportunity.
07:21You know, to that, I would love to have, you know, more players in the academy
07:25than could help in the last game against, against Huggersfield.
07:29You know, two brothers play some minutes with us, so it's really good,
07:34really good, that competition for that.
07:36And Ryan Makeda, who's been playing particularly well for the 20 hours,
07:41is he someone that's on your radar that you've seen?
07:43Yeah, he's on the radar.
07:44Yeah, absolutely.
07:45We talk, we call it today, like I want to show, we show personally but publicly
07:51our condolences for his family because his father passed away last week,
07:55last week, last days, and he's in his country to make the funeral,
08:01and Cole is completely in touch with the academy,
08:08not just for the second team, for the other teams.
08:12You mentioned, Pep, about maybe Omar and Erling playing alongside each other
08:17more often than maybe people think.
08:20Is that a reaction to the way that teams are setting up against you,
08:23that maybe you think that two alongside each other
08:26could be more effective going forward?
08:29Two in terms of offensive, two goals and so on?
08:32Yeah, absolutely.
08:34You see the chances we had against Everton,
08:37and the chances we had against Everton,
08:39seven ones against one against Pitbull, seven.
08:42Against Villarreal we had in the first minutes, two chances,
08:46and a lot as well, and of course,
08:49so every player had his own talent,
08:52and in the dribbles nobody's better than Doku,
08:55but in goals Omar is better than Doku,
08:58and Doku is better than Omar.
09:00It's not criticism one or the other one,
09:01it's the skill, the quality.
09:03And to score goals we need Doku,
09:05but to score goals we need Omar.
09:07But all of them they have to defend,
09:09and in the position, central position,
09:11that you fight against Onanese Camaras,
09:13and this balance to find the players,
09:17the creative players to score goals,
09:19but after that you have to go to there and win the duels.
09:23And when you put the players to win the duels
09:25and be aggressive in the midfielder,
09:26you lose the creativity up front.
09:28And the balance is we are running,
09:31and we are working,
09:32and we are smelling what the team really, really needs.
09:37Thank you, everyone.
09:38Done?
09:39Thank you, guys.
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