00:06Mike, do you want to keep us up?
00:08Hi, Mike.
00:09You said for the game, obviously, a performance you'd be proud of.
00:12I thought you got that tonight, didn't you?
00:14Yeah, I thought so.
00:15I think that's the most pleasing aspect of the last two games has been a reaction.
00:21I think it's easy for the group to be...
00:25They could have gone another way in these last two games with what's happened,
00:28but I think it's credit to them that they've stuck at it
00:32and they've put in two performances that they are capable of.
00:36I have to keep saying to this,
00:38it's difficult throughout the season when you're in non-positions,
00:42but they are capable of more.
00:46You were so well organised throughout, weren't you?
00:48Did you have a chance to move on the first out of the session?
00:51Yeah, we did.
00:52That's the difference in these levels.
00:56You've got to be so clinical when you get against these big teams away from home.
01:00You've got to be so clinical in them areas to cause them damage.
01:04But I think we created a bit...
01:06The idea was to try and create some doubt in the stadium.
01:09Obviously, where the club's at at this moment in time,
01:11they're trying to push for the title.
01:14But we weren't able to do it in the end.
01:16Did it matter about you and the players,
01:18what was it about?
01:19How many goals were those goals?
01:20Yeah, I heard that, yeah.
01:22I don't think...
01:23That gave me a bit for my team talk, I think, as well.
01:27But that's fine.
01:28People say that.
01:30But no, I didn't like to hear that, no.
01:31Just on the goal, was there anything you could do?
01:34Was it just a threat from set-pieces?
01:36I think they are.
01:37Obviously, we know they're a threat from set-pieces.
01:40You're always disappointed.
01:41We'll go back over that.
01:44It's usually in a set-piece,
01:45it's either someone's lost a man
01:50or someone's not done the job properly.
01:52Usually on a set-piece, I've not watched it back.
01:54So, they're, again, the fine details at this level
01:57that you have to get right,
01:58because at the end of the day, it separates the game.
02:01One set-piece separates the game.
02:02Should they have been reduced to ten minutes?
02:05I've seen it back,
02:06and I think the way the game is reffed today,
02:09and I don't like seeing people sent off,
02:11I like the game to be in that way,
02:13but I think it's a red card.
02:15I think if we're honest enough, when we watch it back,
02:18I look at it, it's dangerous, he's leaving the floor.
02:21It's a cynical foul anyway to break up play,
02:24so that in its first place.
02:26So, yeah, we're disappointed we didn't get that,
02:28because that obviously changes the game then
02:31for the last 20 minutes in our favour.
02:33That's why the refs think he's there.
02:35I know he's close enough to get the book in,
02:36that's why he didn't see the seriousness of it that close.
02:39Yeah, I think obviously the speed that it goes at,
02:42sometimes that's difficult to see,
02:44and all the refs have got a tough job.
02:45The thing for me is when you actually look back at it,
02:49and you watch it frame by frame,
02:50and you're waiting for minutes and minutes,
02:52you must be able to see that from a number of angles.
02:57That's about Matthew Lester,
02:58probably after the OK?
03:00It's just he's felt his arm string tight.
03:02I thought he was magnificent tonight as well.
03:05Is it OK?
03:06Is it serious?
03:07No, not at this moment in time,
03:08I've not had a chance to look at it,
03:09but he was just saying he started to feel it tighten up.
03:12Yep.
03:13You certainly made Arsenal work for it,
03:15but they've beaten a lot of teams 1-0.
03:17Do you think you've lost to the Premier League champions?
03:21Well, potentially, yeah.
03:22Obviously, there's still games to play,
03:25and you know as well as I do what can happen.
03:28But, yeah, listen, if they go on and do it,
03:31you're there for a reason.
03:33I'm taking nothing away from them as a team at all.
03:36Not at all.
03:37If you win that league, you deserve to win it.
03:40If you finish top of that league, no matter what,
03:42because of what you've had to go through and do it.
03:44So, if they win it, then brilliant credit.
03:47They didn't blow you away,
03:48but what makes them so hard to do?
03:50I think they're really strong in the way coaches look at football.
03:55They're very strong in all phases of the game.
03:59And I think the one thing that they've got
04:02that a lot of Premier League teams don't have as much
04:05is that real defensive side of it now.
04:08I think they've got that, which is their foundation as well,
04:12which I think that will go on to winning the title probably.
04:16Okay, guys. Thank you.
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