00:00Coach, congratulations on the victory.
00:02I know you just spoke about it a little bit,
00:04but were you surprised at all how much Brazil allowed you to possess the ball?
00:10You've been largely a very deadly counter-attacking team in this tournament,
00:14and it seemed like they wanted you to have the ball to prevent your counter-attacks.
00:20Were you surprised by how much they let you possess the ball in the game?
00:23No, that was our plan, to have the ball as much as possible.
00:26And from the beginning, we wanted to have the ball.
00:29We wanted to have slow build-ups, what we did wrong in the first half a little bit,
00:34but we played one or two or three balls in the middle where they counter-attacked against us.
00:39That's why we made the substitutions.
00:41That's why we played in the outside zones and not so much in the middle.
00:47We knew that we have seen that Brazil, when they win the ball, it goes very fast,
00:51and they are also good at, when they get the ball into our half, they are good at crossing.
00:58Then they put, suddenly, Casemiro, Gimayras into the box, and then they are dangerous.
01:03So we wanted to avoid that as well by keeping the ball.
01:06Hello, coach. Congratulations.
01:08My colleagues have told you almost everything there is to say.
01:11Just wanted to ask you about a development that is coming about a red card that was issued,
01:16but then it has been suspended by FIFA.
01:18What did you make of that when you saw that ruling?
01:20One more time.
01:21One more time.
01:22Yes, I'm saying I want to ask you about the development that FIFA made.
01:27In the other game, Balogun was given a straight red card,
01:30but then we've just seen reports saying that that red card has been suspended.
01:34What did that make you feel as a coach, that seeing a player has a red card that has been
01:39suspended?
01:39Yeah, I have to be honest, and I think that's a big mistake by FIFA.
01:44I think it's not a great conclusion that he's got a red card,
01:58and the VR concluded that it was a red card.
02:06He was sent off.
02:08That means you are suspended for one game.
02:12And I think what really is bad about that situation can be that it will be over the United States
02:20now,
02:20because if they beat Belgium, it will always have that extra thing about it.
02:26Yes, maybe he scores a goal, maybe play a good game, and the Belgium will be furious.
02:32And I think you will also come to that.
02:35What about the next red card?
02:36What happens then?
02:38Is there going to be some committee somewhere that is going to take that card away?
02:48So it's a bad, bad, bad, bad, bad decision that will hurt the World Cup.
02:54And I feel also sorry for the United States, because if they win, it will always be that we'll hang
03:02in the balance of it.
03:04So not good for the sport, bad decision by FIFA.
03:08Obviously, a lot of people in the world see you as the underdogs.
03:13Obviously, you know, because you don't, because you know the potential of your team and the players you have.
03:19How is being the underdog for the rest of the world when you know all the potential you have in
03:25your squad?
03:27I think that if we're going to have any chance against any team, we need to play up to our
03:32potential.
03:33We are not that good.
03:35If we play up to our very best, we can beat everyone.
03:38But we have to be all the way up there.
03:40Otherwise, we are in trouble.
03:41We are in trouble.
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