00:13Good afternoon all, hope everyone's well.
00:21Okay, we'll do the usual live and then we'll do it until 10.30 in Vibro tonight.
00:26If everyone's ready, we'll kick off with Dimensional Sky.
00:29Hi.
00:29Good afternoon.
00:30Can we start with any fresh injury concerns after Wednesday, is everything looking okay?
00:34I think so, so let's see how everybody is tomorrow morning.
00:38Obviously we haven't been able to train much, so tomorrow we'll have the final update.
00:42Sorry to throw an answer to you, but Jürgen Timber, Havertz and Odegaard actually came off, will he be okay?
00:50Yeah, Kai and Jürgen will be out.
00:53Okay, Martin, you're confident?
00:55That's it.
00:56You said you were fuming on Wednesday night, two days on, what would you say the overriding emotion is for
01:04you just now?
01:06Focus on Fulham and hunger.
01:10Hunger to play, hunger to compete, hunger to win, hunger to be closer to achieve our dream.
01:17Has the club received an explanation from UEFA about that decision making and have you sought one?
01:24I don't know, I haven't spoken to them the last few hours, so I don't know.
01:27We will deal with that on Monday, now it's Fulham.
01:31Just a feeling of injustice can often be quite a powerful emotion.
01:37Can you use that emotion to maybe fuel your players going into the running?
01:44Maybe, but I think we have enough fuel in the tank.
01:47We're playing to win the Premier League, it's exactly what we want it to be.
01:51Four games to go, it's game two, I'm ready to go.
01:55The reason I ask that is because you often hear about something called siege mentality.
01:59Is that something that you feel that you can bring to your squad and that you have?
02:06That maybe you have that siege mentality within it at the moment?
02:09We certainly have that and we need to face any context, any situation to achieve our goal.
02:17What happened to the night was extremely disappointed and we need to make it at home now.
02:23You see your players every single day, you work with them every single day.
02:26When you look at the whites of their eyes, what do you see?
02:30Hunger. Hunger to win, that's it.
02:33To compete, to prepare and to achieve the goal that we set at the start of the season.
02:39The fans are likely to be kicking every ball and be on edge if you like until the end of
02:46the season.
02:46What would your message with just a few games to go now be today?
02:51Let's keep doing what we did all season and bring that energy, that passion and together we're going to make
02:58it happen.
02:58Last week you talked about courage on your players.
03:05Is it now almost a test of nerve more than anything else from now to the end of the season?
03:11It's a lot of factors, that's something that emotionally for sure we have to manage in the right way.
03:17But I will put the emphasis more on again showing that desire, that determination, that hunger,
03:22that will that we've shown all seasons and even more because we have only four games to play now.
03:28And everything else takes, so it doesn't get better than that.
03:32Good luck.
03:34Syria from the Premier League.
03:34Hi.
03:35Fulham have conceded more goals than anyone else in the first 15 minutes of the second half.
03:40Arsenal have scored the most in that time with 14 goals.
03:44What's so sacred about that half-time team?
03:46Why do you think it's been so successful to come out?
03:52The first thought is that we try to prepare and understand what happened in the first half
03:57and try to apply it immediately in the second half.
04:00There will be a lot of factors, I'm sure, to get those stats and it's very positive.
04:06But what we want is throughout every 15-minute block of the game to have the ability to do that.
04:11Marco Silva is full of only two points and six plays and having a very good season.
04:16What have you made of it?
04:17Because Arsenal have very good stats against Fulham but it's never been in the game.
04:20No.
04:21It's a remarkable job what Marco is doing.
04:25I've said it many times in my opinion.
04:27He's one of the best managers in the league.
04:28The way he sets up his teams, what he's done for the club, it's incredible.
04:33So we know how tough it's going to be tomorrow.
04:36Another stat for you.
04:37Saka, following a ball carry across the pitch has the most shots, most chances created.
04:42Is that what you want to see overall more from the mid-building attack?
04:46Instead of grabbing the ball and passing the back, passing to the side, pushing up a bit more?
04:50Yes.
04:51Penetration is one of the words that we use the most.
04:54Taking players' initiative and making things happen through the passes.
04:58Obviously, it's extremely difficult against teams that are so organised,
05:01so we need to find other ways.
05:03That's the kind of thing that we're looking forward to.
05:06Alex Bipsy.
05:08Hi, Michael.
05:09I know that Kai has had a broken season,
05:12so how has that been for you to deal with through this whole campaign,
05:15having told you so key to you, especially now with so many big games coming up?
05:18It's been a huge miss.
05:20We're talking about one of the most important attacking players that we have.
05:23He's been out for seven or eight months.
05:26He's not been the only one, unfortunately, with the long-term injuries
05:30and players that we've been missed.
05:31The team has shown an incredible capacity to overcome these kind of scenarios
05:36and still be very, very competitive.
05:39And in the summer, he has two years left on his contract.
05:42I mean, tradition is football is where the club extends
05:44or potentially discussions about if they're moving on.
05:47So how important is this end of this season
05:49and the World Cup for Kai Havertz going forward?
05:53Now the focus has to be on availability and performance,
05:56and Kai is desperate to be on the pitch as quick as possible.
06:00If he cannot do this game, hopefully for Atletico he will be available
06:03and he's pushing every boundary to achieve that.
06:06There is no time to have these kind of discussions now.
06:09Tom from London.
06:10Hi.
06:11You mentioned not being able to train much.
06:13Can I ask a little insight about what that's like between games
06:15when training is almost impossible?
06:18What does that week kind of become for you?
06:20Well, first of all, recovery and then clarity on what we have to do,
06:25what we expect from the opponent
06:27and especially what we have to do to take the game where we want it,
06:30to win it.
06:32And when you don't have much time on the pitch,
06:35you have to do it in other ways, other methods,
06:38a lot of collective messages
06:40and especially a lot of individual meetings
06:41to achieve what we want on the pitch.
06:44Just something on the structure of the midfield.
06:46Tell me if I'm wrong, but a lot of people have noticed
06:48that Declan has been kind of dropping a bit deeper than Martin recently.
06:52Martin has kind of been pushing up a little bit more
06:53and doing more in the final third.
06:55What has been kind of behind that change and the benefits that we bring?
06:58Well, every opponent has his things
07:03and we believe in the last game that it was the best thing to do
07:07to hurt him, to find a space, his time
07:10and surprise him with certain movements
07:13and in relation to the opponent, we can change that.
07:16And to have the variability and the options
07:18to do that with our midfielders,
07:19I think it's something positive for the team.
07:22Was that it?
07:23On that one on Bryce,
07:24you also did give him a slightly deep role
07:27against Atletico the other day.
07:29How impressed were you with how you performed
07:31and his mentality to try to reinforce him?
07:34Well, I mean, what we need is players
07:38that can occupy any position on the field.
07:40I mean, more than football, I think it's going in that direction.
07:42When you're a midfielder, you're at 6th and 8th or 10th.
07:45I think if we want a total team, we better have total players
07:49to do that, to be so comfortable, to be dominant in any area of the pitch,
07:54to dominate every phase of play.
07:57And Declan certainly is evolving into that direction.
07:59And when it comes to the player of the season,
08:01he's obviously one of those in the running for that,
08:03probably someone like Bruno Fernandes too.
08:05How important do you think performing in multiple competitions
08:08every few days in Europe should be when it comes to those kind of awards?
08:11Well, what Declan is doing again, it's incredible.
08:14I mean, to play the amount of games, minutes,
08:16with the quality that he's shown in every game
08:18is something extremely difficult to do.
08:20And he's doing it not only this season,
08:23but the last few teams that have been with us.
08:25And to show that level of consistency is extremely rare
08:28because the demands and the standards are very, very high.
08:32James Atletic.
08:33Hi.
08:34I was asking you quickly about Ebreche Eze.
08:37We've heard you talk a lot in recent weeks
08:39about the beauty of the challenge in front of you,
08:41the need for your players to enjoy it and enjoy these moments.
08:44It feels like very few players in Bolly that are more than him.
08:48It feels like he plays the same way
08:49if it's a pre-season friendly or a Champions League second final.
08:52Is that one of his most special qualities?
08:56I think so.
08:57I think it's part of his character
08:59and he has a unique way of expressing himself.
09:04Inside, none of us know how he's feeling,
09:06but what he actually transmits to the world outside
09:09is such a security and calmness
09:13and composed in every situation on the field.
09:15And is that something that you think he can transmit
09:18to his teammates as well?
09:20It does.
09:20And especially the way he talks and connects with people,
09:24it's very much like that.
09:25And I think that's something special.
09:28I think we need players like that,
09:29we need players that can have a different kind of presence
09:32on the pitch and body language
09:35and bring something else that I think is unique
09:37and very powerful for the team.
09:39Okay, last one on the other side.
09:40James at ESPN.
09:41Hi.
09:42The Fulham game obviously comes between the two Champions League semifinals.
09:47We lost to Bournemouth in between the quarter-final and the Tigers.
09:52Is there anything you can learn from the preparation
09:54or the approach this time to make sure it's a better result?
09:58Yes.
09:59Well, the time of the game is going to be different to start with.
10:04And hopefully the game and the result will be very different,
10:08especially when the game turns and how efficient they were with certain actions.
10:13We know the difficulty of the opponent, of the schedule.
10:17But I know, I sense it in the team.
10:19We want it that much that tomorrow we're going to be fresh again and ready to go.
10:23A couple of years ago you lost to Villa in the middle of the Bayern Munich time.
10:27Is this kind of turnaround one of the key areas you need to find that will improve?
10:31I want to think about all the turnaround that we have so difficult that we want.
10:37But, yeah, we can learn from the positive ones, from the other ones.
10:40You know, we will win every single game, which is very difficult to do.
10:43So, yeah, we have prepared the best possible way since the moment that the final
10:47we've done everything that we possibly can to give ourselves the best chance to recover,
10:52to bring the right energy, to prepare the game in the right way.
10:56And now it's about the selection and performing on the pitch.
11:00Just generally, is it something that Premier League should help English teams with,
11:03just this turnaround?
11:05Ideally, yes.
11:06We all know that.
11:07If they can do that, that will be great.
11:10Hi, Michael.
11:11Hi.
11:11On the crowd at the Emirates, there's obviously a lot to be made of the sort of nerves
11:15in the last couple of months, I guess.
11:18Do you feel that the players feel that the pitch?
11:23That's a question for the players.
11:26I am extremely grateful for the support, the atmosphere that we have created at the Emirates.
11:31We always want more.
11:33We always want better.
11:33We always want every single action to be so positive behind the players.
11:39The more we do that, we all know that the outcome is going to be much better,
11:43and I'm sure.
11:44I know tomorrow is going to be such a special game when it's so much to play for
11:48and so little still.
11:51So, we know everybody has to be at it.
11:53It's just for you and you said the questions for the players,
11:56but do you feel that?
11:57Obviously, the times you give a little bit of that to the crowd.
12:00I think that's part of my job as well, because I know what we are trying to do.
12:04And I put there the right example the other day when we played the short corners as well,
12:08and that we are so convinced on what we have to do and let the players make the decision,
12:14especially when they are on the ball.
12:15When we are defending and to push them and to do that, I think it's great.
12:19When they have the ball, we need to allow them to make the decision,
12:24because probably they're going to take it because they are so good,
12:26the right one most of the times.
12:28Okay.
12:29Back.
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