00:00Sheriff, answer questions, please, and we'll set an embargo towards the end for 10.30pm on Sunday.
00:04We'll start right in front.
00:20Yeah, that resumed that season, yeah.
00:27Football is unpredictable, they have one chance, they score a goal, but it happened in the past.
00:32You always have a team that controls many aspects and concedes one goal, one chance of all, we're able to
00:36score three and four.
00:37And with the game, this type of game, all we were able to do it.
00:40I remember Sunderland, I remember the 1st of January, we played outstanding, especially the second half, the chance we created,
00:49and after Chelsea, Brighton today.
00:52I'm not talking about Arsenal away, that they deserve to win.
00:54We got a point that we didn't deserve, and against United, that they were much better than us, but the
00:59other games we played were much better.
01:02Maybe not, because there's a lot of new players who have a consistent for 90 minutes, that's why I have
01:06an up and down in some moments.
01:08But games like Nottingham, you know, definitely a bit last minute, Savio, without no keeper, shoot, no goal, to their
01:15mark.
01:17It happened for many, many.
01:18We didn't score enough goals, so I accept that the openers cannot score a goal, but those who are able
01:22to score a lot in this season, it didn't happen.
01:25But what can I say, so I'm so proud, as these players deserve a monument, so the way they play,
01:32we talk about today, after Madrid, and the tough result, the trip, and no training, come to London again, this
01:39long trip, and so fight, fight, fight until the end, and they did it.
01:44And we played more control in the first half, and in the second, yeah, not just the last 15-20
01:53minutes, especially, like, of course, we changed with the players more dynamic, with Ryan, with Tijani, with Phil, with Jeremy,
02:02that we expect, so we changed the rhythm in the second half, and that did well, but finally we could
02:07not win the game.
02:10So, you seem that you're happy with the performance as a whole, and that it was just the goals, or
02:16did you feel there was a lack of intensity in it?
02:23Listen, I don't know.
02:25So, I think many things I've done, so I could be better, yeah, could be more aggressive in the first
02:30half, even the control half, the last pass, yeah, maybe.
02:35But, yeah, at the end, we need the creativity in the end, you know?
02:38The cross, and shoot, and dribbles, and something, and we struggle a little bit this season.
02:44We struggle.
02:45That's why it's a little bit the symptom that today happened, but sometimes change, you know?
02:49The goal, the Sabio, and today, Mark, didn't happen at the end, couldn't happen, but a lot of, it's not
02:53easy, you know?
02:54When Madrid play, yeah, and not, of course, all respect for both teams, please don't misunderstand me, but defense, low
03:02blocks, and dips, and win the transitions.
03:03Of course, the transition of Madrid are more dangerous than with Ham, I said pieces for with Ham, when Nuno
03:09has been mastered, really good.
03:12But we cannot say to the team, we cannot say.
03:14So, they did everything, they fought, 24 shoots, I don't know how many.
03:20We had to be better in the final third, we didn't do it, and that's all.
03:23It happened many, many, many, many games this season.
03:25Many, many, many games, and unfortunately, you know, it happened.
03:30It's a nine-point gap with only eight games to go.
03:35How would you assess it?
03:36You did suggest that you had to win before this game, and Antoine obviously did win right at the deck.
03:42Can you still win this title, or is it now you or even you win this team?
03:48Well, I said, yeah, it's more complicated, yeah, we win against Nottingham today, depending on us, now it depends on
03:54them.
03:54But we have one game in hand, we have Arsenal at home.
03:57I'm not saying we're busy to beat them, but it's at home, and always I'm positive, and I can be
04:01positive for next Tuesday with our people.
04:04Natural reality will dictate, but I'm not going to try to play on Tuesday thinking we are not possible.
04:09And I'm not thinking.
04:10When it's not possible, after, I don't know, half an hour, an hour, because they have to celebrate, I call
04:17Michele and congratulate him.
04:18But since this is going to happen, I will want to be there, because, of course, we have a lot
04:23of things to do,
04:24but there are a lot, a lot of new players that are living for this time, these kind of things.
04:28And the consistency that we were in the past, this season we didn't get it.
04:31So we were able to do it in Newcastle, FA Cup, and you see Newcastle, the way he played in
04:35Barcelona,
04:36the way today won in the Stamford Bridge, they didn't win the game, but winning the Stamford Bridge is not
04:40easy.
04:40And the momentum that they have, and we were able to beat them four times and play incredible in the
04:47FA Cup.
04:48But after that, we were not, you know, stable.
04:51That team, in the last decade, I would say, the NIS, always we were stable.
04:57Always we found a way to win the games.
04:59And this season, unexpectedly, we played much better than I would expect in the beginning,
05:07but we were not, yeah, the spark in the end.
05:10You say, okay, now I'm going to win the game in three points,
05:14and that gives them confidence for the next one, and we are not able to do it.
05:17Can I just ask, Erwin seemed to get a potential going pull, or was it just a ball in the
05:25nasty part of the body?
05:29I think it was, hopefully his wife will be happy tonight, yeah.
05:36I didn't speak with him, the doctors didn't see me.
05:39I think I saw it in my perfect position today.
05:44Like, I confirmed right now that I will be more aggressive for the referees to get more yellow cards,
05:51to go more often in the stands.
05:53The position is much better.
05:55So, Howard Webb, educate your referees, but I'm coming.
06:00But I think in the moment, he's injured, but after the last minute, he's run, so I think it's not
06:05a problem.
06:06Sir?
06:07You're talking about the lack of goals, creativity, final pass.
06:11You spoke about Ryan Jerky the other week, and how he's got this talent.
06:15The way that so many of them have also, in between the lines, but he seems to struggle a bit.
06:21That's not the kind of role where Jerky would be better.
06:25Yeah, you're right.
06:27For that role, absolutely.
06:28There is no one better than him.
06:33What was the reason then?
06:35Bad selection.
06:36Now you can criticize me, incredible, for the selection.
06:39Now I deserve it.
06:41It's for sometimes for the balance.
06:43You know, we learned in the beginning when we played Erling in that moment, with Jeremy, with Jerky, we are
06:48incredible unbalanced.
06:50We are not the stability that the teams in the primary has to have, and that's why I try to
06:56handle for that.
06:56So that's why it's a team, like, it's growing.
06:59I think that from the beginning we grew a lot, but still it's not a finished business, you know, that.
07:06And that is sometimes.
07:08But I will not be the one that they say that I don't love the play with Ryan, especially always
07:13when he came for the Benjos, the impact is unbelievable.
07:17So, but sometimes, you know, he has not the speed for Ryan, so the teams are always stable when Semenya,
07:24Antoine and Nick O'Reilly play in the winger position, coming inside and go there, right through the box.
07:31They were really, really, really good.
07:34So, yeah, I'm finding still the best way to have stability when Semenya is at the tip.
07:39Last one for the embargo with Mark.
07:41Are players aware of the Arsenal goal and how hard is it to play just after you know the other
07:48goal?
07:48I was taking a beer before the game, so I didn't see the players before, so I don't know.
07:53They were in the warm-up, and I didn't see them.
07:56Of course, it's better they didn't win, you know, score at the end.
08:00But, yeah, it can happen.
08:02Okay, Mark.
08:04I don't think he's down three goals in his last 12th, but then he's going to 2.8.
08:08Is he, is he, is he, is he, is he kind of an injury, are you concerned?
08:12No, don't misunderstand me that the fact that the lack of goals, of course, there, but we miss him, of
08:16course, that, of course.
08:18It's not about that, so the beginning of the season feel was unstoppable as well, so.
08:26And, yeah, it's never, it's easy to say, like a journalist or whatever, say, no, the reason why is this
08:33play,
08:33this play, and always, I, I was miles away of that subject.
08:38Always, I believe the connections, and the vibes, and the forms, and the, the many things create the, the good
08:44interactions for the players,
08:45that create many, many good things.
08:46It's a belief in travel and that, and, but of course, he knows it, so.
08:52So, Erling, we need his goals, definitely, but we need to create more, like we create, for example, in the
08:58first 50 to 20 minutes,
08:59he has three or four chances there, and in the first half, we didn't have, why?
09:04Because we have a lot of control, but we're not a threat as much as the whole, the second half,
09:08and to be involved,
09:09we have to create that threat that sometimes we didn't, we didn't have, but he, he will be back, and
09:18maybe, surprisingly, back soon.
09:20Certainly, Morgan, there for 10.30pm on Sunday evening, we'll start with Jack.
09:23Hi, Matt.
09:25Just on, just on Erling, obviously, I left him at home last week for the Newcastle.
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