00:00Good evening everyone, I hope you're well.
00:05We'll start with questions from English media followed by any questions from Turkish media and we'll take a share of hands with questions.
00:10Someone to start? Someone to start please guys. Ben.
00:17Pep, congratulations on reaching the last eight.
00:20What were your views on the way your team played today and saw out what was ultimately quite...
00:25...the final round of matches in this competition for a lot of teams?
00:29First time...
00:30First half better than the second, the second half more chances than the first.
00:35We've seen a lot of things to improve but they are really pleased to finish.
00:40We've been paid considering how the Champions League has become...
00:45...when I started 60 or 70 years ago the Champions League was another type of competition today.
00:50Every team is really, really, really, really tough.
00:55So don't play one knockout stage and...
01:00...and hopefully we can arrive in Mars...
01:04...and I'll...
01:05...the best.
01:06Just Simon, please. Thank you.
01:07Just Simon, please. Thank you.
01:10Pep, did you see the final goal in Benfica?
01:14Yeah.
01:15And...
01:15Real, will you be sending Jose Mourinho any message of thanks?
01:19Yeah, of course.
01:20And...
01:22...can I just check on Jeremy, it looks?
01:24With...
01:25Jeremy Dock who...
01:26But potentially...
01:27Luke Singer.
01:28A calf.
01:29Felt something.
01:30Do you know, roughly, will he be out for the weekend?
01:34I think so.
01:37Sean?
01:38It may be important to avoid the...
01:40...playoff round and get some extra rest instead of playing too.
01:45Two extra matches.
01:46No.
01:47Well, the question is not...
01:48Of course, it's better to rest.
01:50It's not a game of playoff, but he should have played because at the end the margins have been...
01:54...with...
01:55We had the chances to score.
01:56We had the chances to score.
01:57They have one chance, create chances.
01:58Juju was incredible, but...
02:00With the rest you have four, five, six clear chances to score more goals.
02:03It wouldn't be that problem, but with the...
02:05Margin one goal towards the difference and that's why it always is risky.
02:08Uh...
02:09The question...
02:10Like I said, it doesn't matter.
02:11We play playoff or we don't play playoff.
02:13He's arriving in that moment in the best.
02:15Day as fit and in the best conditions.
02:17And...
02:18This is what we're going to work in the next.
02:20In the next time.
02:21But...
02:22Considering how many teams are out the...
02:25Top, top teams are out eight.
02:26I don't know how difficult it is.
02:28Even winning in Norway.
02:30Right?
02:31So...
02:32It's difficult.
02:33What was it like in the dressing room in the final minutes?
02:35Of the Benfica game.
02:38Well, we were all there and...
02:39You know...
02:40So we didn't know that Benfica need a goal to qualify.
02:45That's why with three doors and the keeper to say...
02:47The people say, why you go?
02:48Stay in the goalie because...
02:50Madrid can equalize and after that we are out.
02:53But...
02:54It's...
02:55It was a good strategy for Jose, right?
02:57To score the four goals.
03:00Paul?
03:01Pepp, obviously you didn't make the top eight...
03:03Pepp, obviously you didn't make the top eight...
03:05Last year and it's eighth this year.
03:07Just looking back on how that...
03:09Those first two seasons...
03:10This kind of...
03:11Format go.
03:12How much harder is it?
03:13I like it.
03:14I don't like it because it's more game.
03:15But I like it.
03:17I like when you play home away for the fact that...
03:19You know the opponent.
03:20Every game is like a final.
03:22You don't know much the opponent.
03:23We're not going to do.
03:24When you play one...
03:25One time in the second leg...
03:26Always you have a little bit idea...
03:27What you're going to do.
03:28What is the...
03:29The strength.
03:30The weaknesses.
03:31He has a...
03:32You know it's a final.
03:33So it's...
03:34Every game is really, really tough.
03:35Look how many incredible teams are out...
03:37And 24...
03:38How many incredible teams...
03:39There are not...
03:40The top eight.
03:42So...
03:43And still today was the...
03:45The youngest team.
03:46We have played in 10 years here.
03:47Do you know the Champions League?
03:50Seven eight players.
03:51Seven eight players.
03:52Played 22 all...
03:53Even younger.
03:54This...
03:55This...
03:56This...
03:57This...
03:58This group stage.
03:59So...
04:00It's a process to learn and...
04:00Hopefully, of course, when Rodri will be back and Mark and Semenya will be back.
04:05We will start to play, that is a good news, because we need players back.
04:10Andy.
04:11Just going back to Jeremy, how big a miss is this going to be?
04:15He was brilliant tonight, wasn't he, in that first half an hour, and yet another injury for him.
04:19Not just tonight.
04:20All season.
04:21But Jeremy had these a little bit problems, you know.
04:25We are demanding and so and so.
04:30But yeah, hopefully, Mark can be ready to help us.
04:34Madrid was excellent.
04:35For example, I remember that in Norway could not play for the injured.
04:39Everybody knows what happened.
04:40You know, Trafford and and yeah, so unfortunately, it's not.
04:45He's not ready for a few more days.
04:47Obviously, Erling got his goal.
04:50He doesn't ever look like he's ever short of confidence.
04:52But did you sense that perhaps he needed that just for his own kind of.
04:55mindset.
04:56I love a lot that he missed one clear and after that the composer to make a.
05:01This incredible touch.
05:02When you are unsure, you are not.
05:06The problem is what happened this season.
05:07That's why we didn't win in Sunderland, Chelsea and Brighton.
05:10It's too many, too many clear chances.
05:12Too many.
05:13So too easy to score a goal.
05:15So we don't score and that in that moment is going to punish us.
05:18So I know.
05:20We had incredible problems defensively, incredible in terms of lack of.
05:25players.
05:26The reason why.
05:27But I think there is today they have one.
05:30Two chances.
05:31They didn't have more.
05:32Against Galatasaray is good.
05:33The situation we have is at front.
05:35All of us.
05:36All.
05:37All.
05:38All.
05:39So.
05:40We.
05:41We.
05:42We miss chances that.
05:43Should be.
05:44Should be goal.
05:45And that to that we have more points.
05:45in the Premier League and we have been better in the in the Champions League.
05:48But.
05:49We have margin to.
05:50Prove we were going toward it for this.
05:55I want to ask Turkish.
05:58Yeah, of course.
05:59Yeah.
06:00Of course.
06:00I don't speak Turkish, sorry.
06:04Is it number two?
06:05Yeah.
06:06Number two?
06:07Okay.
06:08Go.
06:10Good morning.
06:12Good morning.
06:13Good morning.
06:14Good morning.
06:15Özellikle size ilk yarıda çok zorluk çıkaramadılar.
06:191LK ve DRO...
06:20Thank you very much.
06:25Well, I'm happy to see them, Leroy.
06:30And Gundo, really, really good, the first half.
06:35They intervene less than the second half.
06:37The second half, they wait a little, a little bit much better.
06:39Not much, but...
06:40It was fine.
06:42And, uh...
06:45Yeah, it's quite similar that the game was packed.
06:47Uh...
06:48We start really well, we have chances, and...
06:50We have our process without proper holding midfielders there.
06:53You know, Bernie and Nico and Mick...
06:55We have an incredible effort, but they are not proper holding midfielders.
06:58To break more the lines, and...
07:00And Jeremy was brilliant, and the movement from...
07:02From...
07:03From Evelyn and Omar was excellent.
07:05And the second half, we drop a little bit.
07:07But we had incredible chances, you know, to score.
07:10And maybe don't depend until the last moment against Madrid for qualifying.
07:13You know?
07:14We need that goals.
07:15And we didn't have...
07:16And after that, we was in the hands from Madrid-Benfica.
07:18So...
07:19We were lacking that...
07:20At that time, really pleased, because we will have long weeks that we need it, and...
07:25Not for just for the long weeks.
07:26You know, for the fact that we are already qualifying for the next stage.
07:29And hopefully...
07:30Yeah.
07:31We can arrive in a...
07:32In that moment, we can arrive better.
07:35Great.
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