00:00If somebody offered you a draw today, would you take it?
00:02No, we want to win the game. We are there to win the game.
00:06We haven't talked about that.
00:07We need to win the game and we are preparing to win the game.
00:11No difference to any stadium that we've been in the last five years.
00:15There's no change there.
00:17Do you remember the 0-0 two years ago, pretty much this time of the season?
00:21I think we all left that stadium thinking it was a fairly good point for Arsenal.
00:27I don't know if you reflect on that at all.
00:30Do you remember the game and did you think at the time it was a good point
00:33and it ended up maybe not being a good point?
00:35No, because you don't know because you have to make it good as well the next game.
00:40Or we shouldn't make it even better than the previous game
00:42that we had the opportunity to do it.
00:44We are going to play the game and the circumstances and the context of that
00:46in the best possible way to win it and the outcome we don't know.
00:50And just lastly from me, Rice mentioned this the other night actually,
00:55just this feeling that there's been problems just with very basic short passing,
01:01you know, things going wrong in a kind of cohesive way in the last few weeks.
01:06First of all, I don't know if you have any comment on that.
01:08Secondly, do you kind of work to try and relieve any kind of pressure on the boys when they've got
01:14the ball?
01:15Part of football, part of the moment, part of as well when you are missing certain players
01:20that the relationship, the cohesion is a bit different.
01:24But yeah, work on that means sometimes not talk too much about it
01:28and take more honesty, more responsibility and do it again.
01:32You spoke there about having different themes for games. What's the theme for this game?
01:41Good question, but obviously we're not going to talk about what we're talking in the dressing room here.
01:47Is this a game though where, I know you've used all these techniques and work with it,
01:51but you almost don't need to do that? You don't need to be creative with players?
01:56No, the fact that there is a theme is not that it's a big theme or it has to be.
01:59Every game has its particular aspects and the things that you have to be very much aligned
02:04in what you want to see from the team and that's not going to change.
02:08That's part of the preparation and sometimes they are more visual
02:11and sometimes they are more simple, as you said.
02:14I think it's clear, what we are playing for, what we have ahead of us,
02:18the opportunities that we want to achieve and that's it.
02:23Three years ago in the title race, you were top of the table 248 days,
02:28if you remember, sitting and creeping towards the end.
02:31What did you learn from that particular campaign and from the lessons from that?
02:35What were you so confident about this time around?
02:37Get all the players available in April. I've said it many times.
02:40That's the biggest lesson. April, May, the whole squad available,
02:44your best players on the pitch as much as possible.
02:46The probability to win it increases dramatically.
02:49Simple as that.
02:51As simple and as difficult as that.
02:53And in terms of your defense, your approach on Sunday,
02:58as we remember earlier in the season, City came to the Emirates,
03:02deployed a very comprehensive approach.
03:03People said they parked the bus but walked away to the point.
03:06Is there any issue, is there any problem with you going to City on Sunday,
03:10parking the bus and walking away to the point?
03:11Should that be criticized?
03:12We're not going to propose a game like this because we never do that.
03:16Sunday's opponent is that good, that forces you to be there.
03:19And in City's case, you're going to have to have moments that you're going to have to play deep in
03:24your box for periods of time.
03:26And that's the reality.
03:28Gary?
03:29You said this morning that you're going to adjust something and we have to prepare for it.
03:35Sorry, sorry?
03:48That's our reality as managers and as coaches and as opponents every time.
03:55And it happens.
03:56It happens every game.
03:57There's nothing that's going to happen differently.
03:59They will try to do something, they will try something else.
04:02Five minutes later it will change.
04:03It will adapt.
04:04And that's the flow of the game.
04:05That's when the game is there to be adaptable.
04:07Because when the game becomes chaotic, it's not adaptation, it's action.
04:11And that's it.
04:11There is nothing else to do.
04:13Did you speak?
04:14Have you spoken to that since the final?
04:16No.
04:17Okay, last couple.
04:18John and Charlie.
04:20Okay.
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