00:13Good evening everyone, I hope you're well.
00:15We'll take a show of hands for questions, please.
00:18Someone to start?
00:20Thank you, Simon.
00:21We'll start with Simon when everyone's sat down.
00:26Simon?
00:30Congratulations, you celebrated the battle for your first.
00:33How long did it meet you on the team?
00:37A lot.
00:38Always winning a title is difficult and a lot.
00:43Celebrate with joy and the satisfaction alongside Bayern Munich, maybe Barcelona as well.
00:51The best team in Europe, due to the performance, especially in the second half, the first 15 minutes they suffocate
00:57us.
00:59Like normally they do.
01:01But after that, we started to win a little bit second balls.
01:05And Antoine was really good in the first half, the second half with Jeremy.
01:09We finally made more Rodri and Bernardo in the positions that we needed.
01:13And we, yeah, we make an incredible victory at the end of the Carabao Cup.
01:20It's not the Champions League, it's not the Premier League, of course, as everybody knows that.
01:23But win against that team, against that team make that title special.
01:45Yeah, it's really important for the club as well, not just for this year and look at the performance for
01:49Nathan today.
01:49Ake and all of them have been James save us in the first minutes.
01:54James Stafford make an incredible competition in Newcastle.
01:56I remember way, make an incredible two saves.
01:59Everybody had made a contribution.
02:01Max Zeleni, he played in Newcastle semifinal with a lot of Ingers alongside Gustanoff.
02:06They make an incredible game.
02:07This competition where we need everybody's involved.
02:09Today, yes, I make a one substitution with the two zeros never over.
02:13And the team I felt was there, you know, Jeremy had kept the ball, Antoine as well, and Bernardo and
02:20Rodri.
02:21In that way, you cannot be replaced.
02:25But it's good.
02:27I think what I said the previous day, so the team is underneath and something, a smell that can flourish.
02:34And winning helps to anticipate a little bit the process, you know.
02:40But you never understand how ambivalent or how weak are the teams when you believe it's done and immediately you
02:49go in the bottom.
02:50So that is going to change the opinion.
02:52Nobody, even though myself, give one pound today for the victory.
02:56They come, incredible run.
02:58The victories, we could not win nothing on Forza home.
03:01We could not win West Ham away.
03:025-1 aggregate against Madrid for the fact, especially 75 minutes, 10 against 11.
03:08So a few people, really, really few people that, but the players prove again, the old ones, especially ones that,
03:16yeah,
03:18we're required to do something that during the season we are not being consistent to do, especially without the ball.
03:24Against that team, Arsenal, or you achieve that level, or no chance.
03:28And today we achieve it, especially without the ball.
03:31With the ball in second half was, against that team was unbelievable.
03:36I could not believe it, I could not believe it, how good we have done it in the second half.
03:41Sam.
03:42When you talk about the team being there, and obviously with the team in the past has won all the
03:46trophies, the treble and the ball in the room,
03:49I'm sure you could go into games and know you would perform and they would be there.
03:53But with this new team, I'm sure you just couldn't know how they would react.
03:59Yeah, but it's the same like 10 years ago when we played the first Carabao Cup here against Arsenal, I
04:06think so.
04:07So it was the same.
04:09So you never know.
04:10Before one game, you never know.
04:11And of course there is a lot, so James is the first final to play, Mateus arrived at Kusanov, he's
04:18just one year here.
04:20And Nico Riley impressed me the first season, he has done it, and Antoine arrived at the first final he
04:29played.
04:30There are many, many, many players that everything is experienced, but that is good.
04:34It's been neat, because we have an experience when a group of players win and win and know how to
04:40win, especially titles, make, okay, we can do it.
04:43But still, still, and the season prove it, still, we are much better than last season, of course, but still
04:51prove we are not the team like should be that require time.
04:56And hopefully at the end of the season, next season, we can do it.
05:00Sam.
05:01How good can we go around you and how much of a season we can do this season?
05:06Wow.
05:08We started to play, right when he was injured, impressed a lot.
05:13In Newcastle, we played a holding midfielder.
05:16Alongside Nico Gonzalez, it was unbelievable.
05:18And Joe Ellington, Tonalis, Bruno Guimaraes.
05:22When playing in the pocket, this natural position, every cross is there.
05:27In the aerial actions, it's really strong, especially offensive.
05:31Defensive has to improve.
05:34And, yeah, it has been so far a surprise, even for me.
05:39You know, the season we have done so far has been extraordinary.
05:43James.
05:44Yeah, just following up on what Simon was saying, that sort of pure joy when you scored your second.
05:52Is that sort of one of your superpowers, that enthusiasm and energy that despite all you've won is still there?
06:00Do you think that constantly sort of...
06:03No, yeah, I wanted another yellow card.
06:06That's why I did it.
06:07So that was the target.
06:09So, listen, if I cannot celebrate it in the moment against that team, Arsenal, the way we were playing.
06:15But sometimes you play, the emotions are related.
06:18The part of me is the way we are playing.
06:20Sometimes we play, we have one action, score a goal.
06:22I don't react in that way.
06:24I react when it's, okay, that is what happened.
06:26That is, yes, yes, yes, score a goal.
06:28The emotions come up.
06:29So, come on, give me another yellow card.
06:32But I will celebrate it.
06:33I'm not, not yet proof.
06:37I'm not artificially intelligent.
06:39So, I'm a human being and I can celebrate.
06:42I want to celebrate it.
06:44And I do no respect for no Arsenal or for the other fans.
06:50I just celebrate with my people.
06:52If the people start to understand that always I'm a human being, I have emotions.
06:56And when I feel it, like I shout to the referees, I celebrate, I express it.
07:01I just, I just mean, though, like, you're the ultimate trophy hunter and you think that
07:07filters through to your players.
07:12I said in the beginning, it's so difficult to win titles.
07:15It doesn't matter which one.
07:16It's not the Premier League, Champions League.
07:17I know that, but it's so difficult.
07:18The opponents are so good.
07:19The opponents are incredible.
07:20They're well prepared.
07:21The man of games, the man of seasons.
07:23And every time I win this, I said, oh, win another one?
07:27Which one?
07:28It's like, ah, the Premier League, Champions League.
07:31It's so difficult.
07:32But what made me feel that is remember, because I was in a title, remember what we have done
07:37together in 10 years, winning 19 titles in 10 years in the modern era in England, in Europe.
07:44It's the heads of all organisation.
07:46It's the amount of the consistency.
07:49And last season we were not there because you have something you cannot fight, that is
07:53injured.
07:54But even with that, not even our top, because we changed 60% of the era, still in many moments
08:00we can recognise more or less the team.
08:02Jamie?
08:03Jamie, just following on to that, 19, I didn't say, is it keeping you young?
08:09You're keeping you young, like a young man of the culture, is it how you think?
08:12Put it all?
08:13Long time I've done it all.
08:15What can I do?
08:15What can I do?
08:16Is it time maybe to talk?
08:17No, still the joy to compete.
08:20Today was a real challenge, you know?
08:22Nobody gave us absolutely anything.
08:24And for us, I said the players, today we're going to see ourselves, to prove ourselves,
08:30what is our level against the best team.
08:32We have to.
08:33What we are.
08:35We talk about the game we play in Arsenal in the beginning of the season, what happened,
08:39that is the proof.
08:41That is the challenge.
08:41And that players, Rodrius, Bernardos, Nathans, the old ones, Erlings, and myself, and the
08:46guys in the band.
08:47So I said, yeah, that is what about, you know?
08:50It's like what I said after Madrid.
08:52So we are out in Cougar Le Marit.
08:54It's a regret, don't play 90 minutes.
08:56The challenge, if we can do it, with 10-11, it's no chance.
09:00Sport is that.
09:01It's no, they are the best.
09:03So far, no doubt about that.
09:05Okay, let's prove our...
09:07And in general, last 10-15 minutes and a half and a special second half was, I would say,
09:13unexpected.
09:14Because I could not believe we could do it against that Arsenal, and we did it.
09:17But that is nice for the sport.
09:21We've talked a lot this season about the Premier League with more physical, more transitions,
09:26more set pieces.
09:27And you said that you still believe your way of playing is how you want to play.
09:32Does that 20 minutes particularly start in the second half against this Arsenal sort of really
09:37sort of prove that, validate that?
09:40Yeah, because we won, right?
09:42I would believe the same.
09:45I would believe the same even losing that game or losing against Madrid.
09:49I believe the game that they are patterns that you can use it, you can play in the way I...
09:53I love the team being played on my team.
09:57So football is so nice because it's different thousand-millionaire styles, dictate for the
10:03clubs, for the higher kids, for the managers that are being followed, for the players.
10:07But, of course, we win.
10:08I said, oh, Pep was right.
10:11Forget about it.
10:12This discussion is over the moon for me.
10:15It's out.
10:17It's a win or losing.
10:19I think because I truly, truly convinced this is the way I think I like to see my teams play.
10:26And when you don't lose, it's not about now I'm going to...
10:29Of course, you have to re-band.
10:30You have to...
10:31New tendencies.
10:32Of course, it's that.
10:33But always, I believe that you can do it.
10:35It's just do it better.
10:37And last season, we cannot do it.
10:39And in the past, in this season, sometimes, sometimes we cannot do it.
10:45Last one with Rob.
10:48Congratulations.
10:49I know it's different competitions, but is there any part of you at all that thinks
10:52that maybe this result will have an impact on the title race?
10:55Do you mean that you can just be as simple as the confidence it gives to your players
10:57compared to maybe the questions that the Arsenal players have well, where you're in there?
11:01I would like to have nine points in front of Arsenal.
11:05But I don't know which change for the trophy.
11:08It would be nine points to fight for the Premier League.
11:13And it will have no impact.
11:15Different competitions.
11:17There will be more control when they will come to Etihad.
11:22I don't know what the situation will happen.
11:24That title helps us a lot for the quarterfinals against Liverpool at home.
11:27That's for sure, without people, that today, all our side was completely blue.
11:32I'm so happy for, of course, to, again, being together, celebrating that, for that game,
11:39maybe will help us.
11:40But the Premier League is in their hands.
11:42I think they punish us a lot.
11:44But it was a two periods, like you were incredible, top, top, top, top against Sunderland away.
11:48That was a magnificent game we played there.
11:51And Chelsea and Brighton at home, these three draws, they punish us a lot in terms of points.
11:55And this nothing on Forest, it was Ham the last ones.
11:58Maybe we'll regret it until the end.
12:00But we have one game in hand.
12:02We have Arsenal at home and three points difference plus Oberlach.
12:07So we see that team is going to draw points.
12:11We're going to try to win our games.
12:13We won the first and we'll see.
12:15We'll see what happens.
12:16Thank you, Warren.
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