00:00What was your assessment of the game? Did you feel that your team could have managed the game better at all while it was at 1-0?
00:11Yeah, I don't know what that means. It's because they scored a goal in the last minute and that's why we managed quite a while in the first half.
00:22In the second half they had two chances because we lost two balls in the beginning but we missed just in the talent plays at the end.
00:29Two against one, three against two, you know, too close. They didn't create much. We were extraordinary in all departments except we could not score the second or the third or the fourth that we had it in the first and the second half.
00:40Of course the second half made a step up, so the first half they were a little bit more cautious, the second half had nothing to lose, there were more and at the end they found a reward.
00:51Can I ask about Josco Cavalli and the injury?
00:57We'll see tomorrow. It doesn't look good to him and Ruben, so we'll see what happens.
01:01Because Ruben was an injury as well?
01:02Yeah, looks like, yeah.
01:03Would they like knocks or muscle or...?
01:05Yeah, looks like, yeah.
01:06Muscle.
01:07I didn't speak with him, doctor, but Ruben is out just because he felt something, yeah.
01:12Yeah.
01:13Love it.
01:14Hi, Pep. Can I ask you about Rodri? He seems much better now, much more at ease with, you know, the usual Rodri.
01:24I have been much better than the last year and a half. I didn't see him here. Yeah, definitely. He's an extraordinary player.
01:31You know, he doesn't need his composer. He makes us play better in many things.
01:37That's the big question mark now. In three days we have another one against half opening, if he had to play or not.
01:43But Kovacic and Nico Gonzalez are not, I would say, ready. And also Nico, so we'll see how we manage.
01:51Pep, more drop points and six points behind Arsenal now. How do you see the title race?
01:58Wednesday, Brighton, and we'll see. Step by step.
02:02You don't want to expand on...
02:04I don't have a crystal ball to know what's going to happen in the future, so I don't know.
02:08Only I think it's recovering the players and Wednesday, Brighton, of course, we were closer.
02:13So the way incredible we played in Sunderland in the second half, and today we didn't get, like, but score goals or be clinical is part of, I would say, all the stats, you know, many things that you can solve.
02:26Of course, you can create chances and expecting goals are higher than everyone, but, you know, have to do it.
02:32And we play, but as a manager, we have said to the team.
02:37So, Neva could be more, you know, part of that.
02:43So, they played really, really good against this team, really, really good.
02:48Just following on from what Jack said, are there any concerns about the number of injuries to defend?
02:52Yeah.
02:53Obviously, it's hard when you get injuries to one group of players.
02:56Of course, I have a lot.
02:58You understand he's missing for I don't know how many months, and Ruben will be out, and Josque will be out,
03:04and Nathan, always win, always Nathan, cannot play regularly.
03:09So, a situation, but in the same time, what happened last season, so stay strong and we'll find the solution.
03:16Spirit will be there. Spirit is there and will be there.
03:20Alex.
03:21Hi, Pep. Just a quick one on Rodri.
03:23You mentioned, then, obviously a huge boost to have him back.
03:25Is he now at the stage, do you think, where he can play three games in a week?
03:29I don't know. That is the, I said before, you didn't listen to me.
03:32It's the biggest question mark, so I don't know.
03:35The schedule kind of demands that a little bit though, doesn't it?
03:38Especially with Nico Gonzalez, if he's out longer term than for the few.
03:42Yeah, what I'm saying, we'll see.
03:44We'll see day by day.
03:46Always it happened in the past.
03:48So, we'll see tomorrow.
03:50You know, action and action.
03:53We'll take a decision day of the game.
03:56Pep, in the second half we could see you sometimes getting a little frustrated that your team
04:02giving the ball away.
04:03You know, the second half performances sometimes, after the break, being given away a few chances.
04:08Is that a lack of concentration in the team?
04:10No.
04:11We cannot play the way we play.
04:13It's like concentration.
04:14We just, sometimes the players say, oh, I need the pass to do it, or I can keep it a little bit more.
04:18So, when the fatigue is there and 1-0 in the last minutes, maybe we can keep a little bit more.
04:22More right, left, left, Cherky to Jeremy, Jeremy to Cherky a little bit more.
04:25We can finish a little bit closer.
04:27But it's normal.
04:28They are aggressive.
04:29They are strong.
04:30And sometimes they happen.
04:32That is not about, sometimes you take a bad decision that doesn't mean it's lack of concentration.
04:37It's happened.
04:38So, they play.
04:39So, in general, in general it was outstanding.
04:41So, the first half and especially, of course, when the team demands to be more aggressive,
04:47like they have been, it's a little bit more difficult.
04:49But how many times we linked with Jeremy and Erling, we got the ball.
04:52Because Mark, in the action, the two against one, three against four.
04:55It was four, three, four, five for the last pass.
04:58One metre before me, late, shorter, smaller, quicker.
05:02And that makes a difference.
05:03And today, we cannot finish that.
05:06Do you have any concerns talking about those injuries over your squad size now,
05:11with so many games coming up?
05:12Of course, I have concerns.
05:14Have you been at the bench today?
05:19Three players for the academy.
05:21And now we have more.
05:24So, we don't have players.
05:26That is the truth.
05:27What?
05:28This January?
05:29I don't think so.
05:31I don't think so.
05:33But we'll see what happens.
05:35Because I know Ruben is a big loss.
05:37And just because of a big loss, his partnership has done bringing what we are.
05:41But they are doing incredible things what they have done.
05:44Against that team, that with Enzo, I don't know now.
05:46But with Enzo, they were a masters in build-up, a masters in the process.
05:49We have done it unbelievable in many, many things.
05:53And unfortunately, we could not.
05:56Yeah.
05:57When I left for the last two minutes, but in general, it was really good.
06:01Like it was the second half in Sunderland and many, many aspects.
06:04When you miss a goal in the six-year box, in the penalty spot, three or four times.
06:09And the moment we get that, it will be better.
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