00:06What did you make of that, Mark?
00:08The game decided in about five minutes, was it?
00:12Good evening. Yes, it's true. The game decided in five minutes and, in my opinion, decided in that first half,
00:20where our approach was not aggressive enough on and off the ball.
00:27We gave Liverpool the chance to build up their attack to ease in some moments, not with the right aggressiveness
00:33of the ball.
00:34That was the reason why they had the chances and they were in command of the game most of the
00:39time during the first half.
00:40They had the chances, one before from Salah and, of course, we had one good one from Oscar Bob as
00:47well.
00:49The good example of that is the way they scored the first goal.
00:52A long ball from the goalkeeper, the way we were able to win that ball in the air.
00:56Lack of communication between two players.
00:58Salah, first contact on the ball, the way they won the second ball before the great finishing off.
01:03I think it's a good example about our approach during that first half that was not aggressive enough for the
01:11level of a game in Premier League.
01:14And a game that we wanted to win and we had the ambition to win.
01:17That is the best example.
01:19And second half was completely different.
01:22Our approach, the aggressive and so on and off the ball.
01:25And that was the reason why I know that Liverpool was winning the game.
01:28But the way we won many balls in our offensive half, we were much more aggressive.
01:33We created much more chances as well.
01:35Of course, we are not ruthless enough because with a goal we can create a different scenario in the stadium,
01:42in the opposition side as well.
01:45We had a bad big chance with Emil probably to score and the game is going to be probably different.
01:49We tried to score the 2-1 and also to go to chase the score again.
01:53We are not ruthless.
01:54Liverpool, when they had the chances first half, they did it.
01:57And that made a big impact in the game.
01:59But our face and our image as a team is much more that second half than the first half.
02:04First half is not to forget because we are going to analyse for sure and you are going to make
02:10them to understand.
02:11But for us to win games and to be fighting for what we want to fight has to be much
02:15more in the way you play for second half than we did first half.
02:19And is that first half maybe a consequence of not playing for a long time or is it something else?
02:25That is the easiest excuse and I don't go in that direction because we were able to do it second
02:30half why we didn't first half.
02:33And most of our players, I know that they were three weeks without Premier League games but most of our
02:40players in a good number they had international games,
02:43they had official games and games very important for their national teams and it is not an excuse for us.
02:50I know that Liverpool, they had the Champions League game as well.
02:54If you look in that direction, you should have taken advantage from their game last Wednesday night as well.
02:59I don't go in that easy excuse. What we showed in the second half is a good example of how
03:06we should play a Premier League game in any stadium in the Premier League.
03:11First half we didn't do that and we are punished by that.
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