00:00No, it's just for everyone to understand the game.
00:29I felt in the five, in the last 10 minutes of the first half, I felt that the opponent was struggling and they would struggle in the second half.
00:40And we had that feeling that we need to do something to change the way we were playing.
00:47And it was that, of course, we tried to change little things in the game.
00:51But the intensity and the quality in the way we connect, especially with Josh in our connection was better.
00:59And that improves a lot the way we play.
01:06I think it's not so much.
01:16I didn't say go near Josh.
01:18I just said to the players, we need to be more alive.
01:21And you can feel that.
01:22So if you are more alive, you are in more places.
01:26You are near the ball more often.
01:28And I think everyone did that.
01:30But we also need to understand that the opponent was tired also in the second half.
01:37And when you increase the rhythm and the opponent gets tired a little bit, suffers right away a goal, you felt that we had the control of the game.
01:44And that's it.
01:45And just on Josh, it's his first Premier League goal for nearly a year.
01:49I know he's had to wait for his chance with injuries to Matthias and to Ben.
01:53How in Pescu were you with him, particularly in the second half and waiting for that goal?
01:57Yeah, it was really important.
01:59But again, it was not just the goal.
02:01Even the runs behind.
02:03In the first half, he struggled in the duels.
02:07He won some duels in the second half.
02:10And we improved a lot because of the quality of Josh in the second half.
02:13And that is important for him to understand.
02:16That is not just the goal.
02:18We play better because Josh played better in the second half.
02:21It's, of course, defending and attacking.
02:38If you have certain characteristics, the pace, you can go right or left because you also can play with your left.
02:47You need to use that in every single game in Premier League and not just one game.
02:52And then we drop a little bit the level.
02:55But it's the same thing that I said with Patrick.
02:58I know they have a lot of quality.
03:02They just need to be relaxed sometimes and show that and show the intensity and the pace that they have.
03:09Ruben, did you believe at halftime that your side could turn things around given some of the setbacks that this quarter has had this season?
03:16I felt that because, again, I had the feeling, if you see the last plays of the game,
03:24they were struggling so much to take the ball out of the box.
03:28And you can feel it the way they move, that they were getting tired for the second half.
03:35And we talk about that.
03:37And again, our pace in the first half, intensity.
03:39We cannot play like that in Premier League.
03:42So we increased that.
03:45And I had the feeling, we had the feeling that if we score one goal, this is going to change completely.
03:52I really like also the way we control the game with the ball winning the game.
03:57So we were in front, but we were not afraid of trying to score the next one and to control the ball in their half.
04:03How do you explain that lack of intensity in the first half?
04:06Sometimes it's a lot of things.
04:09If you, we need, sometimes you don't need to move, but the pace of the ball can be better.
04:16We need to understand that Mata was the free man that had the time to think.
04:21And if you see in the first, in the second half, sometimes it was him that starts the play.
04:25All these small details, I think we improved.
04:28And when you have one play, two plays, the rhythm flows better and you increase everything mentally and physically.
04:35Last question for Critch.
04:37And moving to two set piece goals, it's something that we've actually seen quite a lot of in last few years in the Forest and Tottenham as well.
04:43Is that, are you putting more focus on that recently or is it just for instance of work?
04:48No, we work a lot.
04:50Like in every, we have more time to work.
04:53We work a lot and we are learning.
04:55We learn a lot in England.
04:57And I think you are used to do that, to see that.
05:02But when you come for Premier League, you learn a lot with other teams how to do it.
05:06And we are stealing a lot of things to score goals.
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