00:00Martinelli is more a knock and he wasn't comfortable to carry on after the second half
00:07with Piero, something different because he picked up by Andrews against Everson.
00:25Obviously it's a club that I admire a lot.
00:29What they've done I think over the last 10 years is incredible.
00:34They have different managers and now Fabians came in and brought some very different ideas as well.
00:39A lot of energy, a really, really committed team and look very, very together.
00:45A lot of quality, they can play in different ways, they have versatile players, so it's going to be a tough match.
00:51When you talk about a really busy December period, how helpful is it now to be having two home games?
00:56Do you have enough time to switch off as well as the boys?
01:01Well, we need to prepare what's coming, but at least tonight and tomorrow I will have some time with my family that are here.
01:09There is time to enjoy, there is time to work and enjoy the pleasure and the opportunity that we have to be playing at this level in this country with the history that we have here.
01:21I want to talk about Talasiri. There has been a positive increase in his defensive stats.
01:26Even the top five players have been in the least dribbled past this season.
01:30Tyndall is in the top five as well.
01:31You know he has played centre-backs before, but he has played left that many in the year.
01:36When you have players like Gabriel Alvarez who would never nod for a left centre-back position there,
01:41do you think he could do that?
01:44Yeah.
01:45How has he done that?
01:46What he didn't do before is play as a full-back.
01:51We brought him as well because we believe that he could do both of them.
01:55Those stats are really important, especially if they are still aggressive to win the ball.
02:00I don't want players just going backwards, not to be dribbled.
02:03Those two have a great mindset.
02:06Riggi's availability has been really good this season as well and I think tonight he has played a really good game.
02:12How close is he making this one?
02:19Quite close.
02:20I think it will be a matter of days if not weeks.
02:24Let's see in the next step how he responds to that.
02:28But he's again a player that we missed a lot.
02:30A player that brings the team into a different dimension.
02:33So really happy to have him back very soon.
02:36Do you think you'll see Gabriel Alvarez back across the next week or so?
02:40We have to wait and see again.
02:42He hasn't trained yet so it's easy to do in his rehab.
02:46But hopefully as quick as possible because we know the situation that we have in the backline.
02:51Just on Gabriel Alvarez, normally when you see players after so long, they've started after so long.
02:55They've had like an hour and then managed a minute.
02:57He played a little bit longer than that.
02:59Yeah.
03:00Is that a fan also?
03:01What does he bring to this team that's maybe different from the other players?
03:05Yeah, he's very fit.
03:07We've been gradually increasing his minutes.
03:09But today, as long as he was okay, everybody was happy to let him go.
03:15And before, obviously, we started to take risks and get him into fatigue mode.
03:19We took him off, but very happy.
03:21Can we do a couple of things in this game?
03:23Phil, flying at home last season, you threw in depth of a nice percent of that season.
03:28I remember very well.
03:33I was in the manner that we played with 10 men, so hopefully it's going to be very different next time.
03:40I mean, you came in that period of the season, you had a few red cards, kind of bizarre red cards.
03:46You haven't had that this year.
03:48What do you think about that?
03:50I think the rules are different now.
03:52So, yeah, we paid a big price with that rule and hopefully that stays away and we continue to play with 11 players.
04:02Just a little bit, you're actually top of the fair play.
04:04I didn't know. That's good.
04:06It's quite a turnaround.
04:08Very good, yeah.
04:10And finally, we'll go to Nicola.
04:12Top of that turnaround, you're only in December, top of the Premier League, top of the Champions League, semi-final of the League Cup.
04:19The players seem to believe it's a bad football game for people.
04:23Do you think we make a possibility?
04:25Yeah, I just think about going home, have some rest, enjoy one day and start to talk about Brighton.
04:32So, that's what we have to do.
04:34It's a great ball, as you said.
04:36Winning.
04:37He's winning.
04:38He's great. We are here.
04:39Happy Christmas to everybody and see you soon.
04:41Thank you very much.
04:42Good morning.
