00:00I was going to ask you what you're expecting from West Ham,
00:02but I guess after playing a team near the bottom of the table last week against Nottingham Forest,
00:07we saw how tough that game was, I'm guessing you're expecting the same this weekend?
00:12Yeah, because data sometimes tells you something that's right and sometimes you can manipulate it,
00:20but I cannot manipulate the fact that we struggled a lot against the teams that promoted Burnley at home,
00:26Leeds at home, I probably forget one or two, so we understand at this moment of time
00:36how difficult winning games in general is, it doesn't matter where they're positioned in the league table,
00:42that's the current Premier League, but that's not only for us.
00:44I watch a lot of games, as any manager does, before you play a team you watch four or five
00:49games,
00:50or maybe sometimes more, sometimes a little bit less, and I can tell you that we're not the only team
00:54that sometimes plays a half of football that we played in the first half against Forest,
01:02but that's also the quality you face, you have to give credit to Forest for the way they played in
01:08the first half,
01:09and that is a new reality in the Premier League probably for the last one, two, three years,
01:16before that it was maybe a bit more obvious which were the top teams, and they will always beat the
01:20others.
01:21Recently you see a change in that, and that has probably a lot to do with all the money that
01:26goes into the league,
01:27and that these teams also have owners who can spend a lot of money.
01:32You won at West Ham earlier this season, how significant was that win if you think back to it,
01:38because I think it came after a run of defeats and then that win seemed to settle you down,
01:43and you went on a good run after that?
01:45Yeah, I don't only think that it came after a run of bad results,
01:48it came after a run of a lot of bad results, where a few of them were very unlucky,
01:54I think it was the game after we played Leeds away, where we were 2-0 up, 3-2 up,
01:59so that has been our whole season.
02:01But it was an important win over there, a good win, we played well,
02:05as we did so many times, but this time it also resulted in a win,
02:10and from that moment onwards we've only lost twice, and twice worse in extra time,
02:17but that's not something new for us this season.
02:20But the good thing is that last week we scored an extra time,
02:24so maybe things have changed.
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