00:00It's a big weekend for London derbies. This Sunday, a struggling Tottenham Hotspur side, fearful of falling into a relegation
00:08battle, head to Fulham in south-west London for a tough day out by the River Thames at Craven Cottage.
00:15Meanwhile, league leaders Arsenal, five points clear of Manchester City, who have a game in hand, are hosting Chelsea.
00:22The Gunners are fresh off the back of a 4-1 win against Tottenham Hotspur, but another derby day looms
00:29large against a Chelsea side on the hunt for a top-four spot.
00:33The Blues will be looking to bounce back after dropping points at home to Burnley. Here's what both managers had
00:39to say ahead of the fixture.
00:41Firstly, it's to take it game by game. I've had this conversation with you guys before. The Premier League is
00:48so difficult every week.
00:49Every week, the challenges that you face, the different tactical problems that you have, the physicality of the league.
00:56I don't judge one game as harder than the other. What happens against the higher teams in the league is
01:03they're more open because they want to attack more.
01:06There's different tactical things that you can work on. For me, I'm very happy with this group. I'm happy with
01:11the start that we've made.
01:12We've won eight out of twelve. It should be ten out of twelve. That's not bad. It's not a bad
01:18foundation to start from.
01:19So we just need to stay confident and focused. But we have to just take each game as it comes.
01:24We don't know. I mean, they've done different things. They can change throughout the game.
01:28They have the players and they have a manager that it's very comfortable doing that.
01:32So we are prepared. We're going to be prepared in the possible scenarios that we can face throughout the game
01:38and then try to be better than them.
01:41That doesn't change the preparation. We know the importance of the game.
01:44We know the team that we're going to have in front of us, and we just have to prepare in
01:48the best way to
01:49earn the right to win it. As I always said, there is nothing else that you can do what we've
01:53done two weeks ago or two years ago.
01:55It's irrelevant because every game and every context is different because the players might change.
02:00The mood of the teams can be in a different state or what is at stake is different. And we
02:05are prepared.
02:06Igor Tudor came in to replace Thomas Frank at Tottenham up until the end of the season.
02:10His first match was a North London derby. And after losing 4-1 at home to Arsenal,
02:16the manager has admitted the challenge in front of him may be tougher than he expected.
02:21Now you've been here nearly two weeks. Is the job as hard as you expected or a bit more difficult?
02:26Probably, yes. Probably, yes. I agree with you.
02:30I know because you're not here to have fun, but it's a tough job you have.
02:34Yeah, very tough, but it's what I said before. I don't change my opinion. It is how it is.
02:39So, daily work, focus, raise in all things we need to do, physical condition, mental confidence, performance and waiting for
02:50the players to come back.
02:51So, we need to be focused on us, what we can do, less thinking about others. That's always good.
02:58So, we need to be focused on us, what we need to do.
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