00:00Hi guys. Raise your hands and we'll come to you. Who wants to kick off? Go Martin from the Sun.
00:15I guess you might be quite frustrated if I hadn't worked so hard to get back in the game to lose it
00:22with the very last kick but you seem to make a bit of a change as well with taking Prostad off.
00:27Was that tactical as well or more about his fitness?
00:31Obviously, we were extremely disappointed in the way we lost the game but first of all,
00:37congratulate Villa because they are a really good side and they are really good at what they do.
00:42We had some difficulties in the first half, especially with very unusual giveaways that
00:47we have given after regaining the ball, which is a really dangerous moment against them.
00:52But apart from the Watkins situation, which is a foul, I don't recall anything apart from
00:56the goal. In the second half we started really well, much more positive, we generated chances
01:01to score the goal and my feeling was that we were going to go and win the game. We could
01:06have lost it before, again, with two very dangerous individual giveaways and we didn't. We had
01:13two chances to score. The last one went across Declan and we didn't capitalise on that. The
01:17next goal kick long goes there, second ball, we put it away for a throw-in. They play fast,
01:22a lot of chaos in the box and they managed to put the ball in the top corner, which is the quality
01:27of this league. So that's the summary.
01:30And how much of a blow is that for you? You've dropped now, I think it's a seven-point-seeking
01:36high game despite playing Fitchie Wellington in a lot of those. It could have been well cleared and
01:41it's a much tighter base.
01:43But that's the league. I mean, you go to Old Trafford, you go to St James' Park, you go to Chelsea,
01:48you come here. We've been in a lot of difficult grounds and today the result could have been
01:55different. The reality is not. And that's the step that we have to make. I mean, we've been 18
02:00games and beating and still we are there, very close to each other. And that's the level of the league.
02:05And we know that. That's the opportunity that we had ahead of us. And that's it. Now it's time to
02:10bounce back. They have given me all the right reasons to think that we're going to continue to
02:15perform at the same level because what the boys tried to do today again with the schedule that
02:19we had, it was amazing. So, move on. James, CBS?
02:23Michael, you mentioned the schedule there. Do you think it's all just become a bit too draining
02:29for you guys in the last ten minutes? Spurs, Chelsea, Bayern, it was all just too much of them?
02:34I don't know. At some point I thought we were going to win it and there were moments that we gave
02:39very strange giveaways that have nothing to do with us. But it's football as well. But the boys
02:46are willing to put absolutely everything. They tried. The situation with Leo is the same. He could
02:51only play a certain amount of minutes. We made the decision to do it early and we had to do it after.
02:56Do it after. That was the reason why we had to change him and learn from it and go again.
03:00Tom, football on in here?
03:02How was your sixth different bag four overseas? Obviously, Chelsea and Vertu,
03:06really difficult way against you. Saliba or Gabriel through them. How big of an impact
03:10does that have on the expectations for it? It's what it is. I think we have to cope with that. We're
03:15going to have to cope with that for a period of time as well. We know that and the team has to be able to
03:21adapt that and look for excuses. Obviously, we know what those two bring, especially in games like this.
03:27But the other two, I think they were exceptional as well today. So, that's it.
03:32Is there a case here of when you go behind in a game, trying to get results out of the
03:38books against, I think, with Chelsea, City, where you've gone behind? Is there a need to try and
03:47make the most out of the games when you go behind? Sorry, sorry?
03:51Is there a need to make the most out of it when you go behind in a game?
03:55Well, we try and we've done it in many occasions. And today, I certainly had the feeling that we
03:59could do it. But the game was constantly at the edge because we gave two balls away as well,
04:04very dangerous. And in those open situations against man-to-man in the last line, they are
04:08really good attacking those channels. But yeah, we have to learn from it the way we conceded the
04:14first goal as well, very far from our standards. So, that's learning that we can take from ourselves.
04:20And then, give credit to the opponent as well, because I think they are a really good side.
04:24Hi, Mikel. I'm certainly very good. So, do you think they are in the title race still as well?
04:29Well, they are. When you look at where they are, the way they play, they have beaten some big
04:34teams, especially at home. So, yeah, everybody's going to have to play everybody. So, at the moment,
04:40they are where they are and we are there as well. Simon in the back here.
04:43He's going to be out for weeks. Unfortunately, it's much more than what we expected, so the player
04:56was feeling. So, he's going to be out for weeks.
04:59Yeah, well, I mean, everything that they have put in the last two weeks and the results that we got,
05:17the performances and to lose it that way emotionally, it's very touching. You just feel that, yeah,
05:24everything that you put, it hasn't been worth it. But it is worth it, because we will learn again
05:30from today and it will make us a better team again.
05:33And finally, James ESPN there.
05:34Well, it's been five months in the competition and so far, we've coped. We're going to have to prove that
05:49we can cope again, again, again for another six months. That's the level. If you think you're going
05:54to be in this moment with 10 points clear, I think we live in a different world.
05:59Okay, guys. Thanks very much.
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