00:13What went wrong started off with the lead-up to this game, as so many times happened this
00:25season, when we played a very good game and we thought we could bring that level to the
00:34next game, or even better.
00:36We had Mo Salah injured, we had Alisson injured, and after two minutes Hugo Ekiteke out, so
00:43that has happened so many times to us this season, and again now.
00:48And what happened a lot this season is also that the first chance of the other team immediately
00:51went in.
00:55But, Brighton deserved to win, if you look at the second half, because in the first
00:59half I think it was an equal game.
01:03But in the second half, Brighton were the better team on the pitch, and they deserved to win.
01:07What was Hugo's issue, and Alisson, how long did he win?
01:12Alisson will definitely be out during the winter break, during the international break.
01:19And let's see afterwards.
01:21I think Hugo could play tomorrow if he needed to.
01:25It was a dead lag, as you call it here, I think.
01:28Brighton did what we expected.
01:29If you face a team that has only had 62 hours of rest, and the first thing you do is
01:34make
01:34it an intense game, play the first duels.
01:37Play tough duels.
01:39Nothing wrong with the duels, by the way.
01:40But, unfortunately, it was a collision, and that led to Hugo going out.
01:45But, yeah, that's not helpful.
01:47If you have to, after two minutes, you have to continue without one of the best strikers
01:53that the league has seen in the last three or four years, already not available throughout
01:56the whole season, Alexander Rizak.
01:59One of the best goal scorers the league has seen in the last eight years, not being available
02:03with Mo Salah.
02:05And then missing out on Hugo Ikitike, who has had a lot of impact this season, him being
02:10out.
02:11And then, as so many this season, you have to find a way of playing players in positions
02:17they're maybe not used to.
02:18And in the first half, I think we did this quite well.
02:21But, as the game went on, Brighton became stronger and stronger, and unfortunately, a few times
02:30this season, we were able to maybe let something happen off the bench, but Rio had a few very
02:36nice actions.
02:37But throughout the second half, I think they were closer to scoring the 3-1 than we were
02:43scoring the 2-2.
02:59Yeah, I have a clear opinion where that's down to, but that's not what I'm going to say
03:02over here.
03:06So, as I said, they were the better team, and created more chances than us.
03:12So, everything I say about this world, people will see this as excuses, and I never like
03:18to use excuses after the game.
03:20Give credit to them.
03:21They were good.
03:26I think it was nice for their manager that he was able to bring me to my end, because he
03:29was quite good again.
03:34So yeah, they deserved it.
03:46Yeah, that is not easy, although we had a big win during the week.
03:51I think you cannot compare Brighton away with Wolves away.
03:55You cannot compare a game that we should have won in terms of chance creation and every
03:59other metrics there is in football to a game like here, Brighton away.
04:03That's a difficult game for any team, for us, but for any team to go here, especially if
04:09you miss out, like us, on a few very influential players, because we're talking about the number
04:16nine position.
04:17But again, I had to make a substitution and a fullback position with a player that's not
04:21used to play there.
04:25But yeah, of course, now looking at the league table, this loss hurts a lot and it should
04:30hurt us a lot.
04:31But the main problem is that we are in this position because we dropped points at Wolves
04:35in the last minute with a deflected shot that a week ago, not a week ago, because we had
04:40to play on Sunday and not on Saturday, but Sunday and then Wednesday and then Saturday.
04:44Not as all the other Champions League teams playing on Sunday, but we had to play on Saturday
04:49early kickoff.
04:53That goal last week in the 90th minute is, I would say, even a bigger problem than losing
05:01away at Brighton.
05:02I don't know.
05:15Yeah, of course.
05:18It says a few things.
05:20First of all, it says what great teams Liverpool has had in the last ten years, I think.
05:27And a great manager, by the way, as well.
05:32And yeah, but then I could come up, tell you all the reasons why we've lost this season
05:36ten times.
05:37Now, one of them we just heard late goals.
05:40And I think today sums it all up in terms of injury problems in this season.
05:45To go without three of three great goal scorers is never helpful for any team.
05:51And again, the right fullback position.
05:52So, okay.
05:56That's not my job to find excuses.
05:58My job is to find answers.
06:00And that's what I tried to do again today.
06:03And that worked out, in my opinion, not too bad in the first 45 minutes because we were
06:09playing with them and we were, in my opinion, close.
06:12They were a few times close, we were a few times close, but in the second half, we weren't.
06:18But they were a better team.
06:21Do you appreciate, whether it's fair or unfair, that because of the money that the club spent
06:27in some of the business they did, that nobody's really going to have too much sympathy with
06:33the injury situation and having players out, like to say, whether that's fair or unfair?
06:38No, I have complete sympathy with that for all the people who are saying this because no
06:41one in England is used to the fact that there are also clubs that are selling players.
06:46So, usually in England, when a club is buying 450 million, which we did, that's adding that
06:52to the already great team you are having.
06:55But this club has a different model and that no one wants to see that and no one wants to
06:59understand this.
07:00That I can also understand because, yeah, fans of other teams or certain pundits don't want
07:07to tell you that we've sold for 300 million.
07:09Now, if then the 150 million player is never available, that's already one thing.
07:16If Giovanni Leone has never been available because of his injury, that's already second
07:20thing.
07:20So now we're already going underneath what we've sold.
07:24Jeremy Frimpong is recently much more and more available.
07:29So, Mamadashvili was one of the other signings for 450 million is the second goalkeeper.
07:35But yeah, it makes complete sense if you win the league last season and you spent 150 million,
07:41not 450 million.
07:43That expectations are high and those expectations were high for the pundits, for the media, for
07:47me, for the fans.
07:51But at our club, we're also looking at the situation and the things we had, the challenge
07:57we had during this season.
07:59And then we might be a bit more realistic why this season has gone, why it has gone.
08:05But still it's not good enough.
08:07No matter how much excuses I can come up with, it's still not good enough in the position we're
08:12in right now.
08:12And just a break, you know, come at a good time, is it possible to try and reset in this
08:17break and almost use the rest, like a mini season?
08:21Yeah, it's a break for me, maybe it's a break for you, but it's not a break for the players.
08:27I can only hope, I saw this today for the first time, and maybe if I'm saying something wrong
08:33now, then it's, it's, it's, I'm wrong.
08:36But I thought, I read today that Tuchel, the England national team manager, said to 15
08:43players that they had to come in later during the camp.
08:46And if I was correct, but I have to read all the names one more time, those were mainly
08:50the players that have played Champions League and played so many games this season.
08:54So that's a great, unfortunately for us, it's the only country where we don't have internationals.
09:02And so all the other ones will probably use our players again twice.
09:07And I think, but that's also something I'm going to ask to our data department, that a
09:14lot of our players are in the top 10 in terms of playing minutes, because I so many times
09:18have to play the same players, because of the model we are having, and because of the injury
09:23we are having.
09:23We don't have a big squad, we always have to come back to the same players.
09:30But these same players show today character, because I thought, I saw that all the ones
09:37that played Wednesday were still able to compete in the end.
09:40Maybe not as fresh as they were Wednesday, but they didn't give up.
09:45Yeah.
09:45And that's an important asset to have for the last period of the season.
09:49What's one with you?
09:50Just one thing on your goal, that's a Lewis-style thing, the back end of the goal, the chest part
09:57of the back, I just wondered if that was something that you haven't particularly lived back on.
10:02No, no.
10:05No.
10:06Yeah, maybe he was, that's something else, but I didn't tell him.
10:09But maybe because he's playing three years in the Premier League now, he knew or expected
10:13it.
10:14I do think we play the team that always wants to play football and always wants to bring
10:19the ball out from the back and have centre-backs that are calm on the ball and don't kick every
10:23ball long.
10:26So I think it's nice to have a season ticket over here because this team always wants to
10:30play.
10:33Apart from the result, I liked the way we competed against each other.
10:36However, it was just fair play and both teams wanted to play.
10:44And that's once in a while nice to experience as well.
10:48here's a ě„ .
10:49And hello.
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