00:02Arne, you've often talked about the importance of set pieces in this league,
00:07so to have three goals in the first half, all from corners,
00:10either first phase or second phase, how pleasing is that?
00:14How important is it that you've improved at set pieces?
00:18That's very pleasing. First of all, because that's the reason why we won.
00:22Second of all, because when I was just standing around your colleagues,
00:27people said, well played, well played.
00:30And I said, in my opinion, we've played better this season.
00:32We played okay to good, so we weren't.
00:34We were okay to good, but it wasn't the best game of our season.
00:37We've played better when we've lost.
00:39We've played better when we conceded set pieces.
00:42But as I always said, things went back to normal.
00:45We created quite a lot of chances from set pieces in the first part of the season.
00:49And almost every set piece we conceded went in,
00:52and today you could see exactly the opposite happening.
00:55I think one of their first big chances was a set piece that would have gone in
00:59in the first six or seven months, 100% sure.
01:02But now we did it, and we started scoring from set pieces,
01:05and then things look much brighter and better than when you don't.
01:10And that's really pleasing for us, for the team, and for our fans as well.
01:17So, the big question is, what's changed?
01:22Things went back to normal, mainly.
01:24Because I just said that we've created quite a lot of chances in the first half of the season
01:29that constantly did not went in.
01:32Or constantly, too many times did not went in.
01:35With being unlucky, we were a lot of times very close.
01:39And even today, we conceded a set piece.
01:41They scored one.
01:42And they could have scored a second one in the first half.
01:45That would have been the first one then, but you know what I mean.
01:51Maybe one or two small details have changed defensively.
01:56And offensively, I think our setup is slightly, slightly different.
02:02But the biggest reason is that things go back to normal.
02:07There was a period of time that we were 23 goals behind Arsenal in set pieces,
02:11including penalties, by the way.
02:15And we're still not on three goals away from them,
02:17but we've closed the cap a little bit.
02:20Although you never know what can happen this weekend with Arsenal,
02:22because I wouldn't be surprised if they scored three from set pieces this weekend as well.
02:30Adam, when you say you played better this season,
02:32was it maybe just sort of on the hour mark
02:34and you were lacking a little bit of control or a bit frantic?
02:37Was that the big requirement?
02:39No, that has happened, I think, more this season,
02:40that there were three, four, five minutes during a game
02:43where we struggled a little bit.
02:45But, as I said here so many times,
02:47usually in those four or five minutes the ball went in.
02:50And if that then happens on 0-0, you have a different feeling
02:53because you're 1-0 down than when it happens at 3-0 up.
02:58I don't think there was ever a moment that they were close to closing the gap to one goal.
03:04They scored the 3-1.
03:05I think we had the biggest chance on 4-1 with Cody Kakpo.
03:08Then it took a while before we scored the 4-1, which was scored by Cody Kakpo as well.
03:13We came back to 4-2.
03:14We were having our chance again.
03:16So it was never under real threats, but I could feel the nervousness in the stadium.
03:23And that, of course, makes sense because so many times this season we've given away a very comfortable lead.
03:32Completely unnecessary, but it did happen.
03:36And the only thing, I never liked to concede a goal, but if we have to concede a goal,
03:40I like it that with the first one of these we had ten players in and around our box.
03:47And, yeah, sometimes there's a bit of bad luck that then the ball just falls with these one or two
03:51players
03:52or them when we had seven or eight over there.
03:54Poor quality by the individual who feels I have to be there to check.
03:59And that is, to a certain extent, something positive because we've conceded goals this season as well,
04:04where not all of our players were back.
04:09Can you see that one?
04:11Any further update on the flow with the Wolves, maybe?
04:16Yeah, I think that will be too early.
04:19But I said last week I didn't expect him not to be available for today,
04:28so sometimes in an injury things can develop in a positive way or a negative way.
04:34Now we are thinking it doesn't have to take too long, but Tuesday will probably be too early.
04:40But the week after will be tight as things stand now.
04:45But as I said, I thought that he would be available for today as well, which didn't happen unfortunately.
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