00:00We'll go round in our usual order, locals first, up to two questions each and take any questions after this. Sky, you got a question first?
00:10Daniel, how do you stand that up?
00:16Yes, proper night of football. Yeah, of course, a great night for everyone who is involved with Leeds United.
00:28I'm very proud of my players and just have compliments for them for such a fight back.
00:33It was, of course, a difficult game here at Chelsea, before in red-hot form under Liam.
00:38Just wins in the Premier League, just wins in the Champions League.
00:41And then we, as newly promoted side, have to come here and have to play here in the game.
00:47Several key players out, Dominic Kelber, Lewin, Anton Stach, Pascal Stroelk, more or less our whole backbone of the team missing.
00:56Some players first in the starting line-up after injury, after a while, like Jakob Joll, like Bastian Bonneau.
01:04And, of course, a quality that Chelsea has. If you then go to Null down, of course, can be also sometimes a long night.
01:11But our players, we have this never-say-die attitude. We always have this self-belief that whatever happens, we always can come back.
01:19It was perhaps a bit half-self-inflicted before the goals, the first goal and especially the second goal.
01:26It was, of course, a soft penalty, but we gave perhaps also a bit unnecessary. The referee decision to make was not even a chance.
01:33And, you know, it was like, Pedro was on the way to escape out of our box and then Jakar, why ever had the hands a bit on his back.
01:40But then also, like, to accept the situation, to put the situation to bed and to make sure that we fight back with top fitness level, with top mentality, with quality and structure, with clear processes also.
01:53Even after the 2-2, I got the feeling the momentum was a bit on our side and perhaps we could turn the game completely.
01:59Of course, the last few minutes and we had to suffer a lot because Chelsea was throwing everything at us.
02:04And also in one scene, we need a bit of luck because we missed, obviously, also a big chance.
02:09But I think it's a well-deserved point because we fought so hard under this circumstances to come back into this game.
02:18And for that, I'm just proud of this mentality, proud of our game today and we earn a very, very valuable point and send our supporters home very happy.
02:27Was it a difficult decision to leave Noah home after the way he played at the weekend?
02:32Yes, very difficult, but today they had to win over the heart because Noah is due to his physical attributes,
02:41a player who needs a bit longer to recover and it was a quick turnaround.
02:44We were also expecting that, especially in the beginning of the game, our wingers had to work a lot against the ball
02:51and with all respect to him, he's perhaps against the ball, not world-class.
02:56He has skills to infect our game offensive-wise and the plan was to keep the game tight in the beginning
03:02and also then perhaps in the second half to bring more offensive-thinking players on the pitch,
03:09also to change our base formation a bit during the game.
03:12We are capable to do this and it's also sometimes difficult for the opponent to have to react and adapt to a different style
03:21and then perhaps to win the points in the second half.
03:24Of course it was not the plan to be too null down and I was hoping for a better result at this moment,
03:29but nevertheless the game plan was really like in the last 20-30 minutes to win the points
03:34or perhaps even to win the game and all credit goes to my players to be able to make it happen
03:40and to earn a very, very priceless point for us.
03:43Paul Palm was causing a lot of issues in that first half.
03:46Jacka went to Vashti and didn't quite know whether to come or go with him.
03:49I mean, were you tempted to change it structurally at half-time a bit to help the team out?
03:54Yes, it was in general difficult because we had to change again several times in a row right now,
04:01so our back row and that's always difficult because the first time we played without Pascal Swirk,
04:07Joe Roden the first time for us on the left side, Jacka first time since injury back in,
04:11Sebastian's first time since a while back on the right centre-back position.
04:16We need to play today, at least in the beginning with three proper centre-backs also to deal with all their crosses
04:21and deliveries and also to bring our set-piece strength on the pitch, at least that was the plan.
04:27We had a few problems also like to adapt to this and I decided I was strongly thinking about
04:32to change the base formation already at half-time, but we then worked a bit more like on how to deal with the situation
04:39better from a technical point of view because we could have done it a bit quicker if we would have been quicker and had.
04:45We spoke about it before the game, but the execution was not perfect.
04:48We showed a few scenes and spoke also about what we wanted to do better and did better because we wanted to keep the game tight as long as possible
04:57and then more or less like when Chelsea gets also perhaps after a quick turnaround a bit more tired
05:01then to bring our offensive players on the pitch.
05:03The 2-0 penalty was not within the plan anyhow, but the mountain was just a bit higher to climb
05:09and we still found a solution to climb it.
05:12Thank God we did and all the compliments go to my players.
05:15Jadon has been such an important player since he arrived last summer.
05:19He played right back, played right wing and effectively won both the goals for you.
05:26What can you say about him?
05:29Thank God we saw today that he can play on the right wing because it was the first time that he also had to play in the pocket.
05:35And you know, of course, I wanted also to inspire my team today a little bit with this decision,
05:40also perhaps to surprise Chelsea a little bit.
05:43I think if he wouldn't have conceded this cheap goals, we would have seen perhaps even a bit more out of it.
05:48But he was still involved in both goals.
05:51I think if the game would have kept a bit longer, Nal Nal,
05:56I think we could have his capability in going forward and making things happen to see a bit more.
06:02And we are all happy that we have Jadon.
06:05I also didn't want to disturb the partnership of James Justin and Jadon Bogle on the right side.
06:12This is why I played with both of them.
06:14But it was of course a bit risky because in this role Jadon has never played.
06:18But my players have shown so many times tactical flexibility and they are ready to fulfill different roles.
06:26And today without so many key players, without Dominic, without Pascal, without Anton,
06:31it was the time to use this.
06:33And thank God it was not just a theoretical plan that would work.
06:36Thank God they brought us into reality.
06:38And for that all the credit goes to my players.
06:41Anybody else?
06:43Thank you very much.
06:44Thank you. Have a good evening.
06:46Safe trouble.
06:47Safe trouble. Thank you.
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