00:10Good afternoon everyone.
00:22We don't know yet, we have to
00:28see in the next game, in the next days.
00:33I hope for us it's not too important
00:36problem because he's a crucial player
00:39for us. He's a good guy, good player,
00:45top player, big personality and we need
00:50him to finish the season and to
00:53achieve our goal.
00:57Maybe, yes, but I don't want to say
01:02nothing because I don't know.
01:07What do you think of the match?
01:10I think we played a good game, especially
01:13in the first half, with order, with the
01:15ball, without the ball. We had three
01:19clear chances to score. One with Solanke, one
01:25with Richarlison, another with Bergvall.
01:34We played well, but we don't play well enough to
01:41win the game. Because in the end, in the
01:45second half, we suffered too much in Sunderland. We
01:49lost 20-30 metres off the pitch. We had another
01:54important chance with Richarlison, just two
01:59minutes before to consider goal. We can play
02:04better, we can do something more, as high energy, as
02:10a passion on the pitch, with more enthusiasm. Yes, but
02:17now we are inside of a difficult moment and I would like to
02:24help the players to show what they can do on the pitch. Because
02:29we play a good game, but we can play much better than
02:36today. Just it. My job is not now to change the style of
02:42play. I did two, three things with the ball, two, three things
02:47without the ball, but the crucial part is not with the ball or
02:52without the ball. It is in our mentality to be positive, but to be
03:00positive just because we have the quality enough to win a
03:04game. And when we go to win a game, we can change everything.
03:11Last one for me. You brought Javi Simmonds on quite near the end of the game.
03:15Yes, why? Because I changed three players and after one minute
03:20Romero injury and there was on the pitch column one E and Udoge
03:28and I didn't know when Udoge could finish the energy to play just for it.
03:37if without the Romero injury, Charlie came inside before.
03:49You mentioned the mentality that the team needs now. They're in the
03:54relegation zone now. Are you concerned about the impact that could have on the
03:59mentality of the players? Well, you can see during the game. First of all, the
04:14players of Tottenham are all good guys and they are suffering for this moment. They are not happy when we
04:22lose the game or they are not happy to see Tottenham at the game.
04:29At the bottom of the table, for sure. But we have to find the energy. We have to find the
04:35right spirit to be positive.
04:41not to think during the week when they stay with me. For sure they will see a positive coach because
04:51I believe in their qualities just for that.
04:54because we are Tottenham but we have not to win the game just because we are Tottenham. You can't win
05:02the game with the paper.
05:03You have to win the game showing the quality on the pitch, the fighting on the pitch. You have to
05:10score the goal and you have not to concede the goal, for sure.
05:13But they are human and they are suffering maybe too much. And all together we have to stay close, to
05:25be positive, to work, to improve in the details of the football but to be better as a mentality.
05:42You have had time to work with them on the training, but that is obviously the first game. Did you
05:46learn anything new about the players that have seen them in the game?
05:51No.
05:52You have worked a lot in training, but today it was the first game. Have you seen something new today?
06:00No, no. I would like to...
06:05You know me as a coach, but one very important part for me, for my style of to be a
06:16coach is the mental part. It is to transfer the confidence of the players to give them what they need
06:25in terms of mentality, in terms of confidence.
06:37And for that I said we could play better. Because during the week they play better because they are clean
06:52with their head. And during the game is different for sure.
06:56And my work is to help them to show what they can do during the week during the game.
07:08Do you feel like the fear of relegation itself is the problem?
07:16I think so.
07:21How can you change that?
07:26If you ask me, I am 46 years old. I have much experience than the player and I am positive,
07:37absolutely, because I know them as a guy and as a player.
07:46And for that I am positive. Not because we are Tottenham or because I have to do positive. No.
07:55They have the quality enough to win one game. And the target now, the closer target is to win one
08:09game. Because if we win a game, we can see everything in different ways.
08:16Okay, thank you.
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