00:00Hi Pep, hope you're well. After such a disappointment evening over in Madrid in midweek, how do you ensure that
00:07the result and the fallout after it doesn't create a hangover effect between now and the end of the season
00:12on your squad?
00:13I don't know, we'll see. Tomorrow night they have a game, an important one for the Premier League decision and
00:20they have the second leg, so I don't know.
00:22We are used now for many years to live these kind of situations. Next one.
00:31And in terms of the performance, has that affected your thinking around your team selection ahead of the game against
00:37West Ham?
00:37We won or we lose?
00:40In Madrid on Wednesday.
00:42We won or we lose in Madrid?
00:43You lost in Madrid.
00:44Okay, decision, yeah. It's a bad selection.
00:49We won or we lose in Newcastle FA Cup away?
00:52We won or we lose?
00:54You won.
00:54So the selection was good.
00:57Is that an argument that you maybe shouldn't have changed them from Madrid if you won at Newcastle?
01:01No, no, no.
01:02Thanks Pep.
01:03I thought a lot, all the time we would take decisions and the Carabao Cup, FA Cup, the selection, I
01:09always think a lot what is the best for the team.
01:14Obviously a big week ahead, three huge games really. How much of a challenge is it for you now to
01:19pick the team?
01:20It's a pleasure to be here.
01:21Yeah. Last season we could not leave that, in that stage, so it's nice.
01:27And this weekend West Ham are giving themselves a real fighting chance of survival this season. What are you expecting
01:32from them?
01:33Yeah, I was not again for us before. It would happen in the next game.
01:35So, as I said, when arriving in the last ten games, nine, eight games, every team play for something. For
01:42relegation, for Europa League, for Conference, for Champions League, for be champion.
01:45So, it's normal. Every game is, now is not second chances.
01:51Can we check with Erling, I know he played in midweek, but he has missed a couple of games recently.
01:56Is everything all right with him for this weekend?
02:01Hi, Pep. After the game in Madrid, I spoke with Bernardo and Diaz and they both agreed that after the
02:07first goal, until the halftime, the team was a bit, I don't know, shell shocked by what happened.
02:12Do you think that is due to, also, the lack of experience from the new players in that level, in
02:19that stage?
02:21I'm pretty sure that Bernardo, I didn't read that comment, but I'm pretty sure Bernardo and Ruben, that's one of
02:27the experiences.
02:27One talk about the other, one didn't have that experience. It is not. So, I don't have the feeling.
02:33So, the time between the first goal and the second goal we conceded, we had the threat that we had
02:38the first 20 minutes, that arrived five times in the byline.
02:42When they missed, you know, the pass, and that moment, the first and second, we had that threat, but it
02:50was the moment that we were more aggressive without the ball.
02:52We were really, really good. We were in all the situations.
02:55And, yeah, when you have a game that arrived, but the first shoot from Brahim, I think, is outside.
03:00The last three times, three goals, always is difficult to handle. In this competition, it's special for that.
03:04Like Ruben and Bernardo have said, that is a motion involved in the moments of the game, because in the
03:09Premier League, they all have time.
03:1038 fixtures in the FA Cup, okay, you are out, or whatever.
03:13Champions League, you leave, and what is going to happen, what is going to happen, you know?
03:18But we didn't create an incredible amount of the situations.
03:22Like, but in football, in top teams, like it happened in Madrid, or with Ciccorsano by Munich, or top elite
03:27teams,
03:28this competition have this, you know, these threats, this situation that they don't need much.
03:35And have experience against Madrid, especially here in Etihad, the amount of good things, you know,
03:40we have done to score goals, and they scored as well here with the chances that they had.
03:46So, yeah, it's where it is.
03:50And you believe it's possible to overcome?
03:54West Ham.
03:56So, now it's West Ham, and after you have time to think about it, and it's just to,
04:01these kind of games, it's hard to think to try to first score the goal, to win the game,
04:05and after the game, for many plans you have, it doesn't happen.
04:09And it's just, it's play the game you have to play, and after the game will dictate if you have
04:15chance or not.
04:16So, it's difficult, yeah.
04:18Not much dollars on the bank, you know, but for us, I would say.
04:22So, we'll see, we'll see in Tuesday.
04:24Now it's West Ham.
04:26But still, I define the Premier League, like it was the league as the most difficult title.
04:30So, the Premier League, I believe, is the most difficult one,
04:33and still we are there, knowing that if we draw points, we'll be over.
04:38Pep, good afternoon, nice to see you.
04:40I know what you're saying about West Ham, but the way your players suffered in many ways in Madrid,
04:46a lot of them will be keen to play in the second leg and be keen to put things right.
04:51How do you get the balance right mentally between turning out at West Ham and then being ready for Madrid?
04:57Because, again, a lot of them would prefer to play in the Madrid game, I'm sure.
05:02Yeah.
05:03But when you win a lot of status, because every game is important, and we have been here,
05:09struggling many months for the Premier League, and I don't think we will not give up or fight until the
05:13end without trying.
05:16So, we'll be more the selection about with three days, with the travel three days later.
05:20And, of course, you cannot play the same 11, same 11, same 11 in three days.
05:24That is not going to happen, of course, when you change it.
05:26If I'm not thinking about, truly believe me, otherwise it will not be possible.
05:31The amount of Premier League we won in the last years is not important in every single game.
05:36My mind is West Ham.
05:37I understand completely that you asked me about Madrid.
05:41The first question is about that, so I understand completely.
05:43But my focus, the day after when I wake up, it was Luno, West Ham, and what do you have
05:49to do?
05:50What does this week's results say about the Premier League?
05:53We've often heard it spoken about as being the best league in the world, but a lot of the Premier
05:58League teams this week...
05:59It's quite similar, it's quite similar to the analogy with the question.
06:01I haven't had it, but it's not the first time I've been hurt.
06:05But, you know, I lost many times in Champions League on all stage, many, many, many times, and have been
06:10massacred in decisions and what happened.
06:15So it's not the first time, and I know, but at the same time, still I'm here in that position,
06:19and until the last day, I will take the positions like...
06:22And I can argue my decision was the time selection.
06:25I will not convince you because we lost.
06:27Because this argument is before, I could understand it.
06:32But it's not about absolutely...
06:36What was the question?
06:37Sorry?
06:38What was the question?
06:39I just wonder whether there's a wider issue about the fact that not just yourselves have lost, but English teams
06:45in general have struggled.
06:46Yeah, it's the same as what I said.
06:48So before, I think we were the best league in the world, right?
06:52We called a fight.
06:53All the teams, all the teams in Europa League, who are the best, who are strong, how nice we are.
06:59And after what happened this weekend, or this midweek, after that, we are not...
07:05I'm pretty sure we are an incredible league.
07:06The Premier League organized an incredible Premier League, and the league is fantastic, but in these competitions for one game
07:13or two games, everything can happen.
07:14And that means that even being good in other leagues, they are good too.
07:19So now everybody doubts about Bottoglien, right, Norway?
07:23No one.
07:25Anyone, right?
07:26Now hope.
07:27Top team.
07:28Win every game 3-0 in the sport in Lisboa.
07:31And the people say they play magnificent, win against us, win against Inter Milan, in Atletico Madrid.
07:37So now everybody.
07:39So competition is tough, and everyone, the sport is tough, everybody is well-prepared.
07:43They are incredible respect for the other ones.
07:45But if you want to say that everything is a disaster, I have an opinion about the game of Madrid.
07:49Completely own opinion, and it's going to be changed.
07:52So I will need mistakes with my own, own decisions, own opinions.
07:56Not ever what's happened, the results, or whatever.
07:58Have my opinion.
07:59And these are very, very good things.
08:01And the other ones, it could be better.
08:02Yeah, yeah, of course.
08:03And the motion was involved.
08:05The moment that we have, in the first half, especially the first 90-20 minutes before the first goal, was
08:11exceptional.
08:12I would say one of the best we have played there, in terms of we come here to make a
08:18threat, and we were threatening.
08:20But after that, the motions come, conceded one goal, immediately, immediately the second, of course, belong to us, the quality
08:27of Valverde, of course.
08:28And some mistakes we have done, but it's involved.
08:31And after the motions are involved, and it's a completely, completely different game.
08:35But even the second half, we start really well, conceded a penalty that, I'm sorry, it was not.
08:42And because Gigi touched the ball, and another time the motion is again, again, it's been there.
08:47But we were there until the end.
08:48We have a two cut pass.
08:50We have the clear chances from Nico, with Korto Amic incredible save.
08:56So we were there, and that's why.
08:58So West Ham, it will help us to be in a good mood, to arrive on Tuesday, and try it,
09:03and we'll see the game will happen.
09:05Antoine's been named Premier League Player of the Month.
09:07How pleased are you for him, with the way he's settled in and the way he's started life here?
09:11I'm so happy for him, for the incredible guy.
09:15He deserves it.
09:16I'm happy for him.
09:17And in terms of West Ham, I know you've talked about it already, they'll be desperate for points.
09:22Does that make them a little bit more dangerous when they're desperate?
09:25They were desperate too.
09:29Both were.
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