00:01Good afternoon.
00:03If you could just raise your hand so we can get a microphone across.
00:06We've got one on this side.
00:08Lovely.
00:12Good.
00:18Yeah, I'm really ready, John.
00:24Hi Vitor, a really big result and a great four days for the football club.
00:28A good week.
00:29A good week for us.
00:31A good week for us.
00:33You know, difficult game.
00:36In my opinion, we start on a good level, the game, with the ball, trying to play in our way.
00:48But after 50 minutes, 20 minutes, we start to play the game of Tottenham.
01:01Losing long balls, the first ball, the second ball, conceding a lot of crosses, conceding corners, free kicks.
01:12And it was difficult.
01:14It was difficult for us.
01:15But in the end, we didn't concede any goal.
01:20Some luck.
01:21I can accept.
01:26I can accept a lot of spirit to keep the game in a condition that we can do something.
01:39And in the end, in the end of the first half, we scored the goal with a corner in a
01:47corner that we worked on yesterday.
01:52Congrats for my people that take care of the set pieces.
02:01And in half-time, you know, it was a very difficult decision for us to stay with the same first
02:20eleven, to start with the same first eleven.
02:23Because the temptation is to sub some players, to defend better, maybe in line five.
02:37But, you know, in the end, we decide to, no, we will start again with the same players, with the
02:45same shape that we start the game.
02:48But playing, trying to play our game. That was what I asked the players.
02:54Please be yourselves and play with the ball, play with the ball, play with the ball.
03:00And in the second half, in the second half, I think, we play in better level, scoring more two goals
03:08and winning the game.
03:11How much confidence can you take for the rest of the season with the spirit and character that you've shown
03:14today?
03:15You know, of course, in a week that you win two games, one for the Europa League and the other
03:23one in the league, it's important to give confidence, to believe in ourselves.
03:33But they show what the players, they show that they have character, they have quality, they have personality.
03:41Even after the first half, in the second half, they start to play in our way, to force our game.
03:51And they deserve, the supporters deserve, and thanks a lot for them.
04:01Last one from me. The players have been in this situation before three of the four seasons since the club's
04:06been back in the Premier League.
04:07How important is that and maybe how much of a factor is that that Tottenham aren't maybe used to this
04:13sort of situation?
04:20We won three points, important three points, but this is my opinion.
04:27The spirit, the mentality, the correct mentality is to have confidence to get points everywhere,
04:40to get points here playing against Tottenham or playing home against another team.
04:50Because we have a lot of points to get points until the end of the season and we must keep
04:56our mentality.
05:02And we prove it today, we prove it in Manchester City that we can get points, we can get points
05:08from every game.
05:14And it's not about Tottenham, it's not about Tottenham, it's not about Leeds, it's not about the teams that are
05:22here,
05:23that they are fighting against us or with us.
05:26This is about us, about us as a team, what we want as a team, what we want to be
05:31as a team, what we want to be as a player.
05:38And if we want to play in our level, with our work, with our qualities or if we want to
05:51come here with fear because of the result,
05:55because of the stadium, because of the opponent and the supporters, this is about us, just about us, about our
06:05minds.
06:06Vitor, Martin Culloman, Inside Right.
06:09I'm sure I've escaped your notice that almost exactly six months ago, you were a matter of seconds away from
06:17managing Wolves to their first victory here at this very ground.
06:22Six months later, you're taking Forrest away from the bottom three and from relegation.
06:31How does that affect you as a person and a manager?
06:36You know, life is not easy.
06:41This job is not easy because sometimes we work a lot, we work a lot and in the end things
06:48don't happen.
06:50I remember, I will never forget this game in my life because, you know, it was the last second and,
06:58yes, just the last second.
07:00And we consider the goal, Palinha's score, I think Palinha's score.
07:08But you need to be resilient in our life, in your life.
07:13And I need to be resilient, I need to understand that in life we have up and down moments.
07:24But the way that you come back to the fight again, believing, this is the most important.
07:35And I came again here believing that we can win the game and we did it. Thank you.
07:47The Tottenham coach said that his team weren't able to deal with the weight of this game.
07:52How much confidence does it give you for the rest of the season that there was a lot of pressure
07:57on this game for Forrest?
07:58And certainly in the second half, you seem to handle it incredibly well.
08:02How much belief do you think that will give to the players for what still lies ahead?
08:07They show personality, they show character, they show confidence.
08:13The players, they show everything.
08:16You know, it's not easy.
08:20We, in the first half, I recognised that it was difficult, very difficult for us.
08:28Because without the ball it's impossible to score goals, without the ball it's impossible to create a chance to score.
08:35And to face what we faced in the first half and to go in the second half and playing in
08:44a different way, in our way,
08:47in half-time was the agreement between us and the players was,
08:55OK, we must be ourselves, let's go.
08:58Go there and play in our level, play with the ball, play trying to do what you are able to
09:05do.
09:06In the end, they show the personality to do it and we score more two goals.
09:12And a good win, a good win.
09:14Just finally from me, Chris Wood was here with the team.
09:18How confident are you that he'll be able to play some part straight after the international play?
09:23Now we have time with him to start working with the team,
09:29to start working with the team and to increase the level, his level, his confidence.
09:35And I think he will be able to help us in the next games.
09:45It's a similar question, but obviously in Denmark the other day you were saying about the importance of the mind,
09:49how powerful that is. Psychologically, how big is that today and what does that mean going into a period of
09:55break?
09:56Obviously some of the players are going away for those weeks to have that win, that victory.
10:01You know, when you win a game, you get confidence from the game.
10:08When you come here and you win 3-0, a clean sheet, of course,
10:19it's something important for your confidence, OK, we can, we can, we can.
10:26But for me it's about, if the big mistake is, OK, we come here and we won the game.
10:36And next game, OK, now we won the game.
10:40Because this is not the game, this is not the game, we have more seven games to win.
10:43And we need, we need to keep the mentality and the team spirit playing as a fighter, playing as a
10:53champion, feeling champions inside of us, with commitment, with team spirit, suffering when we need to suffer.
11:03Because in the first half we suffer a bit. But in the end, this is the team, suffering when we
11:14need to suffer and celebrating with our supporters when we have a chance to celebrate.
11:20You look quite emotional at the end, Vito, obviously, it was a great moment with the team, the fans, all
11:24the whole squad, backroom staff, but you look quite moved by it as well.
11:27I think the energy, the connection between them, between the supporters and the team, feeling and the staff and the
11:39club and the feeling that we are a family and as a family we are stronger.
11:46This is something that we need to create every time.
11:55I'm just wondering, you've not got a game for three weeks now.
11:59I mean, you talk about the spirit and the togetherness and the family.
12:03A lot of that family is going to a different part of the world and then you don't have a
12:06game when you come back.
12:07How difficult is it to keep that mentality when the players aren't either going to be at the team or
12:13you haven't got a game?
12:16You know, I think when you go to play with the national team, you change the chip mentally.
12:27But when they will come back, because we are in the moment of the season, if we want to be
12:38in Premier League next season,
12:40we need to feel that the question that I asked them before the game is how deep you want to
12:57be in Premier League next season.
12:58How much you can sacrifice from yourselves to be in Premier League next season?
13:13And this is the answer that we need to answer for ourselves.
13:22If we want a lot, we need to do a lot.
13:26And this is the spirit that I want. When they come back, I want the spirit again.
13:36Can I ask you about Morgan? Obviously, he got his goal. It was before your time, but last summer he
13:42came close to joining Spurs.
13:43How pleased were you with how he dealt with the whole occasion and obviously getting his goal?
13:48You know, he deserves the national team, but, you know, it's not my decision. It's a decision. I respect the
13:57decision, of course, of the manager of the national team.
14:01But in my opinion, he has the quality and the character to be there, to be there. He's a fantastic
14:08player, a fantastic player.
14:09He can do everything in a game, try to help the team defending. He's intelligent, closing the spaces.
14:20It's dangerous. It's dangerous when we play with the ball, creating the spaces, assists, scoring goals. What can I say?
14:30With character, strong character, he's a leader. He's a little bit sad, of course, in this moment, disappointed.
14:37But, you know, this is the moment in our life that we need to be stronger and fight again and
14:44come back again to the fight.
14:46Thank you very much. Thank you.
15:00Ladies and gentlemen, if you can just make your way back to the MediaCaf as soon as you can.
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