00:00Alexis that was disallowed and also the one that was allowed in your emotions then?
00:05No, my emotions were emotions of happiness and relief because this is probably the first time I have to do
00:19a different post-match press conference than I did throughout all these other games because today we did not play
00:24a good game.
00:25The performance was, especially in the first half, not as good as we've had so many times this season but
00:31we've been on the wrong side of the score after a good performance far too many times and today I
00:37think we got more than we deserved.
00:40A draw would have been a fairer result of this game than for us to win it but then you
00:46think you win it because Hugo already got a big, big, big chance from a great press from Rio and
00:53Gamora.
00:53Misses it, ball comes back, goes into the net and since VR is there I always struggle to celebrate too
01:04much if I think there might be something going on and you never know if a ball is hit to
01:09a body where it ended up.
01:12And apparently it ended up on his arm. So it was disallowed. So then my emotions were, okay, still not
01:19everything that could have gone against us this season has happened yet.
01:23Still one more to go but maybe fortune has changed two or three minutes later.
01:30But again we thought we scored the winner. Again, they took a long time to check it but this time
01:36the referee pointed at a kick-off which meant that we won the game.
01:44Anno, just in the build-up to the goal, Dominic Schoenzei for the cross, I mean, he was under pressure
01:51either and then made his face for incredible assists.
01:54I mean, what level is he playing at?
01:57Yeah, I think there you can see how much confidence he has at the moment and how well he has
02:02played this season because it's the last second of the game.
02:07At least I thought it was the last second of the game. Apparently it was a bit longer to go
02:10because after we scored we still played for one more minute.
02:13But it felt to me when I looked at the time that it was the last moment and to stay
02:18so cool in a moment where everyone, all the fans were expecting the ball to come in.
02:23And he was waiting, waiting, waiting. And in the end he brought it in. Well done by Virgil as well
02:29to change the angle of attack to go to the second post.
02:33And Maka was not a surprise to me that he was both times our goal scorer because he played with
02:41the mentality you need to play in these games.
02:44And that's why he was twice in that situation to finish. And in the end, after a much better second
02:55half, because the first half was really poor.
02:57The worst we've played till now, I think. But the second half was much better, controlled the game much more,
03:04had our chances already earlier in the second half.
03:07And in the first half, although we were really poor, we did not concede a lot and we defended really
03:12well in our box.
03:14What did you say at the time? Because obviously you said that it was really poor in that first half.
03:17Yeah, what I just said, that it was the worst first half we've played.
03:25But we defended our box really well and that was the reason that we were still on 0-0.
03:31Because as much as Forrest were the better team and were forcing us to go back, we defended really well
03:39in our box, in my opinion.
03:40We had to defend lots of pieces throughout the whole team, especially in the first half.
03:44So if we could brought back that mentality to the whole pitch, combine to do a few things better on
03:51the ball and maybe not lose every ball you touch.
03:54Because that was almost what happened.
03:57Then you know that these players can do better and I've tried to give them a bit of energy to
04:03say, yeah, they've played first day, difficult away game.
04:06Maybe they run out of energy and we for sure cannot have run out of energy yet.
04:12So maybe that can balance the game more or get the game in our advantage.
04:15And I've pointed out our second half against City as well, that we are able after our first half that's
04:22maybe not off the standards we would like to.
04:24We are able to play much better second half.
04:27How much did Alexis need that?
04:32Is it his first goal?
04:35Oh, I wasn't aware of that.
04:37But I think what he needed is what he showed in the last six, seven or eight games.
04:45A run of games where he's getting back to his usual level that he showed so many times last season.
04:53And he had that level also in the first half of the season, but it went a bit with ups
04:57and downs as the team went in terms of performances with ups and downs.
05:03But I see much more consistency recently, not only in Macca's performance, but in the team performance in many individual
05:10performances.
05:13But I think it's always nice for a player to score, especially if you're first, especially if it's in an
05:18extra time of extra time.
05:20So we needed this goal, we needed that win to be on the right side of things once in a
05:26while because we've been so, so, so unlucky this season.
05:30And today for the first time, at least it felt to me for the first time that we've been a
05:34bit lucky this season.
05:35Last couple of players and then Lewis.
05:38Hi, Arna. I just want to point to our real Inge Mors. He's been his fellow friends at Hamptitch this
05:43year.
05:44I was going to ask you, what do you think is his potential? Do you think he could reach a
05:46new level this season?
05:48Nah, he has incredible potential. Otherwise, at 17 years or age, you don't play as many minutes as he does
05:54in the Premier League, let alone at Liverpool.
05:58I don't think there's any other 17-year-old that has played so many minutes this season in the Premier
06:02League as he did.
06:03I don't think there's an 18 or 19-year-old maybe that played so many minutes as he did.
06:07But that last thing I'm not 100% sure about.
06:09So that tells you how much of a talent he is and we think he is.
06:14And he's making progress more and more and that's why lately you see him playing more and more as well.
06:21Get stronger apart from his moment where he had that 1v1.
06:25There were also one or two other moments where he showed that he stands ground or how do you say
06:32it?
06:33Stand his ground, yeah.
06:36And that is, of course, what you need because you face 25, 26, 27, 28-year-old athletes mainly as
06:49your opponents
06:50because we're a bit of an exception in terms of the age of our group of players.
06:55The most teams we face have players of different ages and different physicalities.
07:00So for him to show this already at his 17 years of age is something about his talent.
07:08But as we all know, talent is only the start of a career.
07:11You need so many other things as we've shown today.
07:14Make a great example about mentality.
07:16That is something you need to get a career at this level.
07:22Can you check what the issue with Florian was and how serious that is?
07:27We don't think it's very serious but he felt us back too much during the warm-up to start.
07:37He wasn't able to be 100% or even close to 100%.
07:42And I think after being in this league for six, seven or eight months, he now understands that
07:49no matter how good you are on the ball, you need to be 100% at this level.
07:55So we decided not to play him but we hope and expect that he will be able to be with
08:00us again next week.
08:01But yeah, you never know how things work out.
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