00:16How do you feel after that one and getting the win a few days after the big effort against Arsenal?
00:22Yeah, what I said yesterday, so win is the main target, so we make a contributor in the last three
00:28days in the emotional and physicality.
00:30The game we play, we make an extraordinary game, except the first half where we defend not good two actions
00:36in behind.
00:38The line was not correct. Second half, in general, was good and just, well, the chances were created because we
00:45scored more goals,
00:46but the importance is every game winning. Now, just focus in the FA Cup, semi-final,
00:52if we are able to reach another final and after the Premier League for five games for both teams, and
00:57we see what happens.
00:59Sure.
01:00No way they could go to Golden Gate, 28 shots, this will go to increase opportunities and boost the Golden
01:07Gate.
01:09Yeah, there are chances. Not going to happen in the future because we have to win the game,
01:14so it's not that, but it's true that you don't create chances that, but it was clear, clear, clear,
01:19the Bracca was good or not. The last, the last pass, last shoot, sometimes it's the fatigue, sometimes it's...
01:26But I had the feeling that you have scored 2-0, 0-2, we will be more relaxed for the
01:32fact,
01:32OK, we have already the game in our hands and we could be more composed in the final third, it's
01:37not easy
01:37because they defend with a lot of players, but in terms of what I ask to the team,
01:43the game plan or I say focus on what you have to do, what you have to play,
01:47they have been extraordinary, extraordinary because we play really, really good and, yeah,
01:54that was the only thing that happened.
01:57When you were at the stage this evening when you said that winning really is the only thing that matters,
02:01does the style of the performance matter to you at all or is it just about going to go out?
02:05No, I know, I completely agree that winning is only matters but not in April,
02:12in September, October, November, but you have to do something to win, you know,
02:17it's only a matter of that, we have to win at any cost, yeah, but we have to do something,
02:21you know, we have to move our legs and jump and run and pass and shoot,
02:25so that is what we're working day by day and even today before the game we didn't talk about
02:30the consequences about what happened, you are top of the league or not,
02:34it's just what you have to do to beat Barley and this is the only thing you have to do,
02:38what we earn for that, what Southampton is going to create us, what we have to do,
02:44now have to think about it a lot because I had a lot of doubts about the line-up today,
02:49the fatigue on Sunday but I decided to, okay, we come from previous weeks, long weeks,
02:56so we didn't have a lot of fatigue for game, game, game, game, it's just one,
02:59but now it will be three in a row in three days, we have to go to London,
03:04we have to think about perfectly about knowing that you win a good decision,
03:10if I don't lose it will be a bad decision, but I have to think about it that of course,
03:15you know, there are a little bit fresh lights in the semi-finals because there are a lot of minutes,
03:22emotionally and everything.
03:26Just away from the game and the build up to this, you know,
03:29Liam Rossini has been sacked with yet another of your colleagues in the Premier League that has departed,
03:36you are the outlier here for the longest serving, do you have a message for him?
03:39I'm so sorry, I'm pretty sure he's a manager for that level,
03:47so it's always going to happen, it's always I think about it,
03:50how lucky again I am being in the club, you know what I am.
03:56I picked the right club ten years ago with the incredible hierarchy,
04:00incredible CEO, the sport directors, unbelievable.
04:02So the consistency, the trust with the people that are working here,
04:07it's amazing, so I'm so lucky.
04:12So the decision is not my concern.
04:16You mentioned the lineup and thinking about changes with Southampton coming up,
04:21but then there's, you've got nine days without a game,
04:24then there's a lot of games in different sessions.
04:26What result do you have to consider at this time of the season with
04:29people playing in rhythm, people mentally pressed,
04:34how hard is it to take away from that?
04:36No, I know, I know.
04:37Last season they make changes in Southampton game,
04:40I said before when we played for the qualification Champions League
04:42and we draw 1-1, and now we are playing, you know, the last minutes,
04:47of course the play is good.
04:48I don't know what it's going to do, to be honest, I don't know.
04:50Now I'm just to reflect and think tomorrow, but at the same time,
04:54I need players to be with rhythm.
04:56There are players that didn't play much lately and, you know,
04:59but of course, Cherokee, the talent today would create in the final third
05:03and now is every time it's moving more close to the box and, yeah,
05:08we create a lot of situations and we'll see, we'll see.
05:11I have two nights to sleep and we'll see.
05:15These are very sort of nervous games at this stage of the season,
05:18a lot of pressure on these games.
05:20A lot of your players have been in pressure situations before,
05:23but then there's quite a lot of players in this team who haven't been here.
05:26Do you like what you see in terms of then coping with that pressure
05:29and developing and learning and getting better in terms of the sort of pressure situation?
05:34Yeah.
05:35Yeah, I don't know.
05:36I don't have a machine or something like that.
05:38How was your pressure today?
05:39How do you feel?
05:40Were you nervous or not nervous?
05:43I don't know, but I'm pretty sure that this for the future,
05:46for all of them, for all of us in this club will be good.
05:50As much as you experience, as much as you've been there many times,
05:54you handle it better.
05:57So, but in general, in the way we play was really, really, really good.
06:04So, the commitment, the way, how many players arrive,
06:07and just, yeah, we miss a little bit that moment.
06:24No, no, I don't think so.
06:25I don't think so.
06:26I think Erling or Ryan or Nico in that moment and Jeremy,
06:31I don't have the feeling that the players have.
06:33It just we scored a goal early and after we have a momentum,
06:3610-15 minutes, that they've created one or two chances
06:39that we defend really, really bad.
06:41Apart of that, we were really, really good defensively
06:44and in all the situations, it's not easy because they have pride
06:48and because still 1-0, they are alive.
06:52But in, you cannot expect all the time being, being,
06:55but I think we played really, really good.
06:58I'm pretty sure I didn't see all the images and the chances
07:01that we had, but I had a feeling that we had a lot.
07:03And just for many, in this type of games,
07:06we scored the second on the third for the chances that we had,
07:08we deserve it.
07:09Everything is more fluid, more natural.
07:11You know that?
07:11And at the end, the last minute, the corner, I said,
07:13oh, God, but the way we played, we can draw, right?
07:16The corner is good.
07:17We were clean, but they are good with that.
07:18Good takers.
07:19We were pros.
07:20The best I ever seen in my career.
07:23And in terms of free kicks corner, it's extraordinary.
07:27You never know.
07:28But the game was well played.
07:29The way we played, of course, they said, ah,
07:31the chance to create, we could have had a score goal,
07:33but the main target is win games.
07:35And against Everton, we win the game,
07:38and all the games that we have is playing with.
07:41Thanks, everyone.
07:42Definitely.
07:44Oh, Jamie in the back, by the way.
07:46Just in regards to the last five games,
07:49the question of nerves, keeping the nerves up,
07:52but do you need a little bit of luck to make it as well?
07:54Luck?
07:55Yeah, do you need a little bit of luck
07:56to get through these next five games?
07:57Is it all about a little team just focusing
07:59and holding the nerve?
08:01Ah, luck in life is important,
08:03but you have to do something as well
08:04to deserve this luck, right?
08:06I must shoot you 28 shoots,
08:09and if you do it every game,
08:10we will be luck to win the game, that's for sure.
08:13But the opponents are tough that we have,
08:19and I'm really pleased for the work we played.
08:22If you have something, a little regret,
08:24we could score more goals.
08:25Yeah, definitely.
08:27But five games, tough games for both teams,
08:29for Marcelo and for ourselves,
08:31and now, like your colleague said,
08:33three days, and after you have nine days,
08:35until Monday night in the new stadium in Everton,
08:38looking forward to experience it.
08:43And let's go.
08:43On to next.
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