00:00I bet you needed to win to close the gap on Arsenal, and you've done just that, you needed to stay in touch, and you are doing come the end of this year.
00:13Yeah, we can talk, of course it's better to be closer and further than the top of the league, but from my experience, I'm sorry, I don't want to feel arrogant, but I have quite experience to win the Premier League, so the title is the consistent, and the consistent camp just for one thing, for the way you play, not for the result.
00:30One day, or victory, two points behind, or four points in front, it's consistent to be how you perform, how much you grow during the year, and today has been maybe one of the best performers of the year, the season, during 95-94 minutes.
00:43We have a good momentum, but our second half, start from balls, we talk about that, balls the first half was really good, the second half we suffer, we are not consistent in 90 minutes, and we talk about the reason why.
00:55And, because we did really good things against the first half, and we stopped to do it in the second half, and they see it, we talk about that, it's not about specific movement defensively or offensively, and today, during 90 minutes, and the team, like, it's not necessary to say what they have done so far, against top teams, the results, we concede one chance, we give away again,
01:25good performance, and, of course, you know, the Premier League had the feeling that, even today they drop points, Arsenal is going to drop few, few, few, few points.
01:34You want to be there, you have to win games, games, and games, and games come from the way you perform, not just for a, for a lucky day, or a lucky action.
01:44Ryan Cherky created more chances than any player on the pitch, incredible assist, as well, was that his best game in the City shirt so far?
01:55Ryan is an exceptional player, so young, I have a huge personality, proving against Fulham, in the toughest moment, 5-4, of 3-5-4, come there, and every time he had the ball, give us extra passes and continuity, it's not as scary, having self-confidence, to him, in the final third, have something special,
02:13especially, especially, where I admire the most on Ryan, is not the skills, I never saw Messi play, make a cross like I've done, Messi is the best player, play that game,
02:24and I never saw this kind of crosses, the crosses is fine, it's fine, it doesn't matter, right, left, with the part of your feet, with the head, it doesn't matter, if it's effective, it's fine,
02:35but I like the simplicity, because I learned from Messi that they never make a mistake, they never make a mistake with the simple things,
02:42never, simple things he does perfectly, and after the dribble, 4-5, and what I want to the players, the simplest things, do it well,
02:50and after that, if you do this, this is a new player, you have a special talent, the mum and dad gave it to you,
02:56and he can do whatever you want, but if it doesn't work, now we'll be in problem, so, now we'll be in trouble.
03:02Hi, Pep, is the key to you being successful this season, the mentality of the players, the approach, being brave, sort of on the front foot?
03:12Yeah, I think also, always they had, except last season, for obvious reasons, that everybody knows it, we don't have players,
03:20but important is, when it happens in the beginning of the season, the first five games, six games, ten games, it's not going well, something, it's not a problem,
03:28as much as they follow me, or they follow us, the staff, and tell them guys, the reason why is that, if we improve that, we'll be a better team,
03:35and next win, better team, and after that, we are in a good path, when they don't follow us, and say, no, that is not the reason why,
03:42and after that, we will be in trouble, and, and that, that is the point, I want to see the team growing,
03:49you know, as a, as a, because I said, so in local stage, in one game, in Champions League, in FA Cup, one game, you play Pugouba, it doesn't matter,
03:58but in the Premier League, it's a long, 38 fixtures, has to be, has to be the performance, the, the, the, the performance dictate, dictate, you will be there or not,
04:08the rest, you can, I'm honest enough, when we win a game, it helped me a lot, 5-4 against Fulham, 4-5, oh, it stopped, we won three points,
04:17I said, if we continue to do what happens in the second half, we stop to do it in the first, no chance, we lose in, everywhere,
04:26because that league, you know, you can beat three, four, five, six games in a row, and you don't win a game, it happened to us last season,
04:35so, it happened to many teams this season, so, that's why, the way you play is, will be the key, for the future.
04:43Hi Pep, what did you think of the challenge on Mateus at the end of the game, for the red card, and how is Mateus?
04:48Listen, it's fine, it was lucky that it was not the, like, on the grass, it was in, the moment was on top,
04:58to be honest, I thought I was, like, the first action with, with Josco in the first half,
05:03I'd have said that, seeing it on the TV, it's, wow.
05:07We're lucky that, it's good.
05:10Pep, you talked about Cherki having a personality, how important is it that, when you come to recruit players,
05:16that they do have that kind of personality?
05:18It's the key, it's the key.
05:21Skills, the blind guy realise.
05:25You go to the biggest stages away, really, really under pressure,
05:29it's like a friendly game for them, that is important, players have to be in the important teams.
05:35To discover that is so difficult, because you always see the teams, the players, in the skills, you know, actions,
05:43the players, but you don't know how we behave in Anfield, and Old Trafford, Arsenal away,
05:50or 79 minutes, we need to step up and do it.
05:56Friendly games, everybody do it.
05:58With 3-0, everybody.
05:59No, no, the question is, in the toughest moments, he said,
06:02I'm going to win the game, I'm going to perform who we are.
06:05When you have a lot of these ones, and I had a lot of these ones in my career as a manager,
06:11and that's it, you can have success.
06:13Without that, no tactics exist, nothing.
06:16How impressed have you been with Ryan Jerky understanding what he needs to do in the sort of final third with you?
06:27Because he's not always, attacking players sometimes find it difficult to know when to play.
06:35No, I like, we like to tell them, move in the spaces, but after we have the ball,
06:40and not do whatever you want.
06:42You know, before the cross have done, I don't make a pause, I said,
06:47now Ryan put the ball to the right leg, behind the left, and cross.
06:52So, they have to play.
06:54We tell them, for the way the defense, the opponent attack or defense,
06:58what do you have to do to do it together?
07:00So, Ryan have played always in his career, have been, I'm pretty sure,
07:03I didn't know about 12, 13, 14, 15 years old, better than all his mates.
07:06By far.
07:09And I have the feeling he has done whatever he wants.
07:11He has to do what he has to do for the team.
07:15And when he's able to do it, he will play a lot of minutes,
07:18many, many years in this club because he's a special quality.
07:21But he has to do it.
07:23Otherwise...
07:23Have you sort of seen an improvement in that side of his game in recent weeks?
07:30Maybe since he's come back from injury?
07:32Maybe he has to realize when he hasn't played much, you know, in the bench.
07:35Maybe he has to realize that it's so important to do it.
07:41Today was an action in Fulham that Savio went, lose the ball.
07:44So, in the final, the action for the cross, in the second post,
07:50and Erling go, you know, Heather, go to the post, continue, and he's a run back.
07:55He was there.
07:56And I told him, so, today lost one or two balls, in two seconds was a full ball.
08:02Savio is going to play a lot of minutes.
08:05Without that, they know it, the secret of the team.
08:07And after the quality of Savio, the quality of Ryan, the quality of that, I don't care.
08:11But they were to do the things that make the team stable and try it, and try it.
08:15The driver never runs all the time, and Phil runs all the time,
08:18and Jeremy's improving a lot.
08:20And, you know, that is the key.
08:22Today, I was incredible pleased for the 50-20 minutes from Savio.
08:28Incredible.
08:29Two actions with the ball was a machine.
08:31He doesn't like to listen, but I have to tell him.
08:34Because when it happened, you make an incredible cross.
08:36It was a 5-2.
08:386-2 or 6-3 in that moment.
08:43No, you lose the ball and you're walking.
08:44You come from the bench, you have to run double,
08:46because the other guys are tired.
08:47And today, I've done it three times, three times.
08:50Like a machine, make a fault and go there.
08:53Savio is going to play a lot of minutes.
08:55He's going to play with us.
08:57We'll set the embargo there for 10.30pm on Sunday evening.
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