00:08Good evening, everyone. Hope you're well. We'll take a show of answer questions, please, and Paul has a microphone here.
00:14Some would start, please. Start with Sham. Thank you.
00:19Hi, Pep. You seem to be tackling, heading, kicking, shooting every ball out there. We watched and enjoyed that. How
00:27much did you enjoy it?
00:30That's okay. Enjoying the other thing is the right word. It's fine. Hope. That game gives us hope. That's all.
00:42What I said to the guys after the game, so enjoy the moment, but don't lose the focus right now
00:47because we had the last three or four weeks, long weeks now.
00:51I know what the message will be, but continue to impress the quality for the opponent.
00:56They are really, really good, and the people say they'll have momentum.
01:00When you see them to play and compete, and the duels, and long balls, second balls, and set pieces, it's
01:05an extraordinary team.
01:06Otherwise, you cannot do all season, top of the league, in the Premier League, and in the Champions League, and
01:11beaten.
01:12So, I know how difficult to beat them once. Imagine twice, in a margin of three weeks, a month.
01:18They were a step a little bit higher than the Carabao Cup.
01:21They arrived a little bit, nine points, ten points, a little bit there.
01:24All the messages was easy for Arsenal, and that's why we had that margin that we keep, to be honest,
01:31today.
01:33But they make a step forward.
01:34They are so aggressive to go to the process because they are so aggressive in the man marking, the frontal
01:38balls,
01:39Alibar, Gabriel, and Incapi, and all of them.
01:43They are all of them win duels.
01:45So, really, really tough, have momentum, they have chances, they have chances, small margins.
01:52Yeah, we are there, but the reality is one.
01:55Who is the top of the league? We are not.
01:57The goal difference, who is better? They are.
01:59So, step by step.
02:02But, of course, that's it.
02:05We got hopes, you know, to still extend the chances to fight until the end.
02:10You call them the best team in Europe before the game, but do you see belief growing from your side
02:17that you can now go on and win the title?
02:20Of course.
02:21We grew up there.
02:22I said yesterday, today, I said to the team, guys, and before, so we have to congratulate for the fact
02:27that next season we are definitely already mathematically in the Champions League.
02:31And that is the biggest trophy for that club.
02:33The biggest trophy today has played in the Champions League for many, many reasons.
02:37The second one goes to the chance to have win hopes to, you know, to fight until the end.
02:43You spoke about this team growing up a lot over the last month.
02:48How impressed were you by the maturity shown today?
02:50And are they kind of peaking at the right time, showing the highest?
02:54Listen, I am, I am, I am, I am, I'm not this type of guy, you know me, because we
02:58are all the time with, with me in the press conference before and after the game.
03:01What happened in Harvard to score a goal with a header in the six-yard box in front of the
03:05Donnarumma?
03:06What is the message?
03:08We don't have personality, we don't know to defend our goals, so the margin does something, you know.
03:12So, we have a post, we have a post for Erling.
03:15So, mentality always have been there, except like season, always have been there.
03:20And sometimes wins, sometimes there.
03:24But the margin in that level is Madrid three times in the first half of right three goals.
03:31So, there are many things that sometimes we control.
03:34And we were not in our best because I give a lot of credit for the Open.
03:38Otherwise, we will do better.
03:39But we are alive.
03:41We are alive that is for sure for the already month.
03:44So, we are there.
03:45Everybody is pushing.
03:47And now, we arrive like everybody makes contribution.
03:49We play every three days.
03:50We cannot play.
03:51I don't know how long we'll be out.
03:54So, that's why everybody has to, these last games, play more or less start 11.
04:00Because we have six, seven, eight days between games.
04:02But now, in barely three days, go to London to play semifinal, 3-3.
04:07These guys cannot play all the time.
04:09So, that's why we are a good team and we can do it together.
04:14Could I just ask you what the problem is with Robby Pett?
04:16Some groin, I think.
04:18But the doctor said, we'll see.
04:21Make a test tonight or tomorrow morning.
04:23Could I just ask you about Erling?
04:25He scored the winner.
04:26He scores lots of goals.
04:27But his performance today, that battle with Arsenal's two centre-backs.
04:31I would not like to battle, be Erling Haaland, to battle against Saliba Gabriel, to be honest.
04:35I would not like.
04:37I prefer to read the book.
04:40Definitely not.
04:42So, deal with those guys, how they do it.
04:45And they handle it.
04:48So, they are really good.
04:50So, I think the best two teams in England.
04:53I think it was a good advert for the worldwide and for England.
04:57Both proactive, go there.
05:00Mama again, attack quick.
05:02We do the same.
05:03A little more process.
05:05So, nothing to say.
05:06I will be satisfied with the draw, with the feet.
05:09So, I'm at an age that, seeing when I see my team, what can I say?
05:15Cannot complain at all.
05:16I'm so proud, you know?
05:19Because they are top.
05:22Hi Pep.
05:23What did you think of Ryan Cherky's goal?
05:25And did it remind you of another number 10 who you used to work with?
05:28Yeah, really good.
05:30We didn't find him.
05:30First half was really good.
05:31Second half, we didn't find him.
05:34It's not easy.
05:35It's not easy because they are so close, so tight.
05:38It really, really is not easy.
05:40They do really, really well.
05:41It's so tough to do it.
05:42But Bernardo, it was a good moment.
05:45Second half, I think we started really well.
05:46Really well.
05:47First 50-20 minutes.
05:48I said, I had the chances that Gigi saved the post for Eze.
05:53And at the end, especially, yeah, two set pieces.
05:56The fold and free kicks that they are top.
05:59And, sorry to tell you today, I'm so happy that we have the honor to make the first fold in
06:05the Premier League in a corner.
06:08So, we have this privilege.
06:10So, in the Premier League, no one fall to the keepers of the season, but today we're the first.
06:15So, another title, another record that we have.
06:18I'm just staying on Cherki.
06:20Do you think he should be in the running for player of the season?
06:23Given he's come clutch at the season?
06:25Yeah.
06:25Oh, calm, calm, calm, calm.
06:27He's so young.
06:29A few compliments to Cherki.
06:32Just pull on the bat, please.
06:38You've spoken a lot about Bernardo over the last couple of weeks.
06:42Does today's performance kind of show why you made him captain?
06:44Because he showed great leadership.
06:46Just feel gratitude.
06:47If I talk a lot, one day I cry.
06:49So, just I can say thank you so much to the deep of my heart on behalf of this club,
06:54what you have done.
06:55Football.
06:55Bernardo proved that football starts from here to the feet.
07:00And that guy is not the fastest, the quicker, but not exactly in every single moment what every single action
07:06requires.
07:07Commitment is never injured.
07:08Always commitment.
07:09I've said many times.
07:11Last season defined Bernardo for me, when everybody was not there, always was there, suffering like the first.
07:19His mentality.
07:20And you have one thing is important.
07:21Always see the positive things in the life.
07:23That's why his life will be so happy with his wife Inez and the kids will be so happy because
07:28always is positive.
07:30And when you're from the life in that spirit, always is extraordinary.
07:36Deserve the biggest recognition when we write the legend, you have to write in the capital letter because it has
07:46been.
07:47So, not for today.
07:49For every single game during nine years.
07:53So, no chance.
07:54Many reasons there are for this ten or these ten years together, nine years together.
07:59Without him would have been so, so, so difficult because he's a special, special player.
08:04Hopefully, only I can say, where we'll go, the team will be so lucky to have him.
08:12That, I don't have any doubts.
08:15Hi Pep, I know you've spoken a bit about Haaland and how you'd rather he's not in those battles, but
08:19he was.
08:20It's been a difficult couple of months in terms of how exhausted he's been, not scored so many goals, not
08:26too much coming his way today.
08:27But then, like you say, that decisive moment, he was there, six yards out to put it in.
08:31Like, that's just the huge value of Erling, surely, like, even in these different times.
08:36Yeah, the question is that Arsenal deliver a game like his, Gabriel can jam until 80-yard box with Donnarumma
08:43to follow Cherokee.
08:45In that moment, you have to contact more up front because it's more difficult and they have a good barcode.
08:49Because in that ball, balls, every human being deal with Gabriel and Saliba, they are so, so strong.
08:55So, it's not easy.
08:57And I would have loved, but a part of that, they drop sometimes, they have the ball, they can do
09:02it.
09:02So, I think he knows, you know, the first time that I deal with Gabriel and Saliba.
09:06So, these ties, he knows it, but he always is spot on.
09:11So, always, with the mind of one guy so big, every three days, game, game during November, December, January, February.
09:17So, every three days, three days, three days, sustain that every three days with his body is not easy.
09:22Bernardo can do it.
09:23But him, now we have a little bit more shot because we have the last three, four weeks, we have
09:27a long week.
09:28We have to rest two, three days and proper training and arrive fresh here and here.
09:33I realized, well, I knew it, but I realized that it's not a competition.
09:38The teams can play in Europa, they don't play in Europe.
09:40The teams can play three or four competitions, they play one competition.
09:43It's another history, it's another game.
09:45So, the big clubs playing are more and more difficult.
09:48Okay, better players, better squad financially, whatever you want.
09:51But when you arrive seven days to play and wait three days, three days, three days, it's another game.
09:56It's another game.
09:57And I realize now in these last weeks.
10:00Last one here, thank you.
10:01Hi, Pep.
10:01Gigi O'Donarum in the first half is something so unusual for him.
10:05Then second half, back to his usual level.
10:07How important was his reaction also to give confidence to his teammates?
10:13Yeah, of course.
10:15We talk about in that position.
10:17Maybe I think Kusa has to be better with Harvards.
10:19Having was so intense.
10:21Of course, the ball was not there.
10:22But always we try in that position.
10:24Where are the free spaces?
10:25We believe in that position.
10:26Go to the opposite side with Nico.
10:28The space was there.
10:29But the problem is they were aggressive.
10:31And they are so good.
10:32Like I said, they don't allow you to make short corners.
10:35They don't allow you to make easy free kicks, throw-ins.
10:39And the focus that they have always impressed me since one or two years, Arsenal.
10:45So the moment that they have.
10:46Every long ball, Harvards win the duels.
10:49Right, the second ones.
10:51And they don't lose the ball.
10:52So they are incredible, incredible attributes that make our victory high top level.
10:57Because I know Perfilio in the play.
10:59And of course, the big players have to do that.
11:01I love the teammates, how he reacts, support him unconditionally.
11:07And that is what we work a lot that season.
11:10Here, everyone can make a mistake.
11:12The mistake of Gijo is our mistake.
11:16And at the end, second half, make the safer habit that in that moment we will seem more difficult.
11:24Have a good evening.
11:24Thank you, guys.
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