00:05Oh, hi everyone. Same process as before, please. We'll start with...
00:10...questions from English media followed by any questions from Turkish media.
00:13We'll take a share of answer questions.
00:14We'll start with Martin.
00:18Hi, Jeremy.
00:19How important...
00:19...is it that you get in the top eight tomorrow night and avoid a playoff...
00:24...like you had last season?
00:26Very important.
00:27I think if we're in the top eight, obviously you...
00:29...you don't play two games and with the amount of...
00:34...the games that we have now, two games less is good for us.
00:38So, yeah.
00:39We just want to win this game and control everything that we have in our hands.
00:43And then see where it brings us.
00:46It was a very difficult night for the club in...
00:48...Norway.
00:48You obviously missed that one through injury.
00:50Could you tell us what happened there after the...
00:53...the derby, what your injury was?
00:56Yeah.
00:57Obviously, I got a...
00:58...and I knocked on my knee and that prevented me to play against...
01:03...in Norway, because I was still in pain.
01:07And, yeah, that was the reason.
01:08That was...
01:08...I didn't play, but I feel good now.
01:10So, yeah.
01:11Good job.
01:13Just regarding the injury, it was obviously a challenge from Dalot.
01:18How...
01:18How did you feel about it?
01:19It looked pretty X-rated, let's put it that way at the time.
01:23Yeah, no, I saw the images as well.
01:26Yeah.
01:27What can I say?
01:27I can only say...
01:28...I continue to play, but afterwards, the game, I guess, no, we would...
01:32It was pain.
01:33It was painful to play, so I didn't.
01:35And, yeah, I think you guys know my feeling about...
01:38...as a sort of, you know, you're all top professionals, you know, probably.
01:43Mm-hmm.
01:43There's certain challenges which maybe aren't, you know.
01:48Nice.
01:49You know, how does it make you feel when that happens, when another sort of top pro does that?
01:51Because, you know, it could be...
01:52You could be out...
01:53...for a very long time.
01:55I could have, but, yeah, look.
01:58...that happened, it's like...
02:03...that happened, I didn't play, I guess, in no way, and that's it.
02:06Like, I don't want to get too much into it.
02:08Because it's a pass now.
02:11Thanks to the Lord, I didn't get injured back.
02:13...and that I'm able to play now, so that's the only thing where I can focus on now.
02:18Hi, Jeremy.
02:19Just speaking sort of more generally on tackles and how you come up against...
02:23...sort of markers and things like that, there was obviously a challenge on Saturday that people...
02:28...were talking about after, where you got scrapes down the back of the leg.
02:33Like, do you think you get enough, or do you think wingers and fast attack?
02:38Because get enough protection from, like, the laws of the game or the referees at the moment.
02:43I don't know, in general, I can just say about that tackle, obviously...
02:48...was painful.
02:49I didn't ask the ref why he didn't give another call.
02:53I just know that it was painful, just knowing myself and my character.
02:58I know that I'm not a diver, so if I fall on the ground, it's probably because something happened.
03:03At the end of the day, in terms of laws, in terms of... I don't know. I just...
03:08I just know that when I'm on the ground, I'm not diving, so then it's...
03:13...their responsibility to see if this is yellow, or red, or foul.
03:18If it's not a foul, that's their job.
03:22How many times...
03:23Every week do you think you get, like, a really heavy knock from a tackle?
03:28In games, you mean?
03:29Yeah.
03:30How many times?
03:31Just sort of on average.
03:33Good question.
03:34Good question.
03:35Good question.
03:37Good question.
03:38You know, that's a good question.
03:42I would say a week.
03:43If there are two games in a week, I would say most of the time at least one in a game.
03:48And this one in a game where I feel like, oh, this is a strong tackle.
03:52This is a heavy.
03:53A heavy confrontation.
03:55So I would say once a game.
03:58Hi, Jeremy.
04:00How nice was it to see Arsenal lose?
04:03It's difficult to say because.
04:08It's not that I find joy in, I didn't watch the game, honestly.
04:13I didn't watch the game.
04:14But yeah, I saw that they lost.
04:16But like, I knew there were a lot of games.
04:18In this competition.
04:19And I knew that United, we lost against them.
04:22But they played very well.
04:23They played very well.
04:24We were not out there our best as well.
04:26But.
04:28There are a lot of games and we just need to focus on ourselves.
04:32We need to do our job.
04:33And then we still play against them as well.
04:36So a lot of things will happen.
04:38So yeah, I wasn't really focused on that.
04:40But obviously if they lose, it's better for us, for sure.
04:43How much will it potentially help you in this title race if you're able to get into the.
04:48Top 8 in this competition and avoid those extra two matches?
04:52I feel a lot.
04:53I feel.
04:53I feel it will help us a lot.
04:54Less games means also more rest.
04:57More rest means.
04:58Hopefully less injuries as well because we have we have a quite.
05:03A lot of injuries now.
05:05And I feel like if we can avoid those two games it will be.
05:08Beneficial for us to rest a bit more.
05:11So yeah, that will help us.
05:13Hi, Jeremy.
05:15When you go on the pitch now compared to before you joined City.
05:18What kind of things are in your head?
05:21Like has it changed a lot?
05:23Over the last three years the kind of things you have to do or is it very similar to how you've always done it?
05:28It depends game by game, you know.
05:33When I go on the pitch if I play against a team I'm just thinking of my task.
05:38What I need to do and just to also be confident when I go on the pitch.
05:43To be confident and to just think about my qualities.
05:48And what I want to do in that game.
05:49Who I'm going to play against my opponent.
05:52And I'm just going for.
05:53Focus on that.
05:53So that doesn't really change a lot.
05:56No.
05:56Just more about.
05:57Oh.
05:58Tactical.
05:59Okay.
05:59What does the coach demand from me?
06:00And then that's it.
06:01Then I just focus on myself.
06:03What I want.
06:03When you're in that position to cross and you're looking up and you know Erling's.
06:08Pretty much always making the back post run.
06:11And you may have players coming to the front post.
06:13Is that basically the plan all the time?
06:16You know Erling's always going to be.
06:18Back post.
06:19Would you prefer him to maybe come near post or is everything.
06:24Drilled.
06:24And that's how it is.
06:26When you're looking for those targets.
06:28It's.
06:28Is that what you know is going to be the case?
06:30No.
06:31I feel like.
06:32It's difficult to say.
06:33This is how it's going to happen.
06:35We prepare.
06:36You can prepare something and then in the game.
06:38The free space is somewhere else.
06:41So.
06:43When I'm in that position I always keep my head up and try to look for the rights.
06:48player to pass to and sometimes he he's second.
06:53Post sometimes his first post sometimes his I remember against Dortmund he was more.
06:58And 16 yard when possible to him so it depends.
07:03I feel like it's not something obviously there's a conversation for sure but there's not something
07:08that.
07:08Is it's always like this.
07:10No.
07:11It changes.
07:12It depends also on the.
07:13Opponent and we adapt.
07:15Thanks.
07:18Hi Jeremy just on.
07:23The sort of the treatment that you get in in games what is more frustrating to you as a.
07:28as a wing of the fouls that you pick up or when people think that you're diving.
07:33For me fouls is fine as long obviously if I don't get injured.
07:38But fouls is fine because it shows that I see that as a compliment that they can't take.
07:43The ball is more something like that for me it's more the diving thing when I don't get.
07:48Oh wow I'm not diving that's sometimes frustrating because I know I know.
07:53My character you know if I fall on the ground is because something happened or I wouldn't fall on the ground.
07:58Like sometimes even the players tell me for more on the ground you know so yeah.
08:03That's for me more frustrating for sure.
08:06And can I just ask as well you seem to be playing.
08:08Playing more inside the season at times is that something that you've been.
08:13Working on and are you enjoying that?
08:16Um yeah I'm enjoying it.
08:17I feel like it's.
08:18It's more unpredictable and gives me more options as well.
08:23So I can play on the inside I can play on the outside and yeah it changes my game as well.
08:28And I feel like if I can grow it there if I can grow there as well.
08:33It will be beneficial for me so yeah.
08:37Take some questions from.
08:38Turkey in Turkish media.
08:41Anything guys?
08:42Yep we'll see ya.
08:43Hi Jeremy, in your
08:48first season in Manchester City, you started in this...
08:5326% of the games. In your second season, you started in the starting...
08:5827-60% of the games and this is your third season and...
09:03I see that you started in the starting...
09:0569% of...
09:08Can you say that this season will be your prime season in Manchester?
09:13A prime season. Let's see at the end of the season.
09:18I can just say that I always try to grow and always try to become better.
09:21So...
09:23We're just at the half of the season.
09:25But I feel like I've been doing better.
09:28And...
09:29Let's see where it brings.
09:30But I believe that this season will be better than the previous two for sure.
09:33We'll leave it there. Thank you very much.
09:38Thank you very much.
09:43Thank you very much.
09:44Thank you very much.
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