00:00Use your hand, please, and we'll send the mic.
00:03Please.
00:05Richard, good evening.
00:06How much did you enjoy that?
00:08It was a tough game, but with a lot of personality by my team.
00:16With quality, organisation, and the last one day to recover.
00:24It's not easy.
00:25Five games in 15 days and travel to play.
00:33It's not easy to perform at this level.
00:36Today, good moments of football, team spirit, and I'm happy with my players.
00:44What did you think of your two goals?
00:46Fantastic goals.
00:48Two fantastic goals.
00:50That's why our supporters follow us.
00:55Thanks a lot for the support of them.
00:58Can I just ask you, towards the end of the game when your team were trying to get back into
01:01it,
01:02you were sat down doing a lot of writing on your pad.
01:04You know why?
01:06Because I must keep my mental balance to try to help the team.
01:11If I go there and I don't think about what I have to do in the last minutes, we can
01:20lose as we lost against Liverpool.
01:26In the end of the game, we need to think not only about to attack, but to defend.
01:31Also to defend, to have balance.
01:33Because, of course, the last minutes of playing here, they will push us, they will try everything to get something.
01:43And the point keeps you out of the bottom three psychologically tonight.
01:48How important is that?
01:49It's important to come here and to prove that we can get points everywhere.
01:58To prove ourselves that we can get points everywhere.
02:03It doesn't matter if it's City or another club.
02:08It's about us.
02:09About how to face the opponent and believe in ourselves and prove that we can play good football and we
02:18can get points.
02:21Vito, could I ask about Morgan's goal in particular?
02:24Because it was an incredible moment of improvisation.
02:27I mean, he's obviously got that in his locker, but it was a really special moment, wasn't it?
02:31He's a special player.
02:32A special player.
02:33He has a lot of quality.
02:35And he smelled the spaces.
02:39He smelled the opportunity.
02:41And he scored a beautiful goal.
02:44But, you know, Morgan is not only a fantastic player.
02:48He's a leader.
02:49He has the character that we need.
02:52He's a fighter.
02:53And this is the spirit that I want to see in my team.
02:58I guess on that theme, Murillo probably demonstrated that at the end as well, didn't he?
03:02Without clearance.
03:03Of course.
03:04Of course.
03:04Today, he played at high level.
03:08My opinion.
03:09Did you feel like all your big players stood tall today?
03:11Because, obviously, Elliot's a big player for you this season as well.
03:13Elliot, Elliot, after 90 minutes and 90 minutes today, I thought, OK, maybe with 60 minutes,
03:2470 minutes, I need to do the substitution because I don't believe that he will have energy
03:32to play in the intensity that we need to play here.
03:39But, in the end, it was a surprise for me because, you know, until the end, he has a lot
03:46of energy
03:48and he has a lot of quality, of course.
03:51OK?
03:52Next question.
03:54Sarah?
03:55Vito, you've got a little bit of time now before your next game.
03:58How important is that going to be?
04:00Very, very important.
04:01You know, as I said before, I just remember two trainings with the team.
04:09Because the other trainings were with the players that didn't play, didn't play the games.
04:18And to recover.
04:19And to recover and to travel.
04:20Travel, recover, recover, travel.
04:23And working nothing.
04:25You went with a back three again.
04:27Is that the way forward, do you think, for the rest of the season?
04:29I think what is important is, in a short time, we are able to play in a system or in
04:42the other system.
04:44And this is important because sometimes, to face this kind of opponent that play with a lot of players in
04:58our line,
04:58it's important to be compact, it's important to wait the moment to create problems.
05:09And I think in the first half, we have two good chances to score.
05:18But they have a lot of possession.
05:21The second half, we understand enough time, we understand the spaces that we can explore.
05:33Because the space that they are giving to us.
05:36And I think in a good, again, with good spirit, organisation, we create and we finish, we score goals.
05:49When we spoke to you the other day, you talked a lot about confidence.
05:52Yes.
05:53What can this result do for the team's confidence?
05:55It's important to prove that we can.
06:01It's not because the game in Brighton was, you know, for me and for the players,
06:10the first half, I think, disappointed us because our pressure we never did in a compact way.
06:20We never played as a block.
06:23And today, we recover again our positional game, our organisation.
06:30And, of course, against the top team, waiting the right moments to hurt them.
06:41Okay?
06:43Thank you very much.
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