00:17OK, good evening everyone, thanks for joining us. We will have a first section to review
00:21tonight's game. If you'd like to ask a question, please raise your hand, we'll get round as
00:25many as possible. James, do you want to get us started?
00:27Xavi, congratulations, you named a very strong team. What did you make of your side's performance tonight?
00:33Yeah, good evening everyone, for sure. We always want to choose a competitive team. We are taking
00:42all the games seriously. I think that we are in a moment of the season that many things
00:47are starting, many processes and I'm happy that some players had their first minutes in
00:54the club, they made their debut. As well, happy to play the first competitive game in the
01:00stadium. And it wasn't easy. Credit to Luton as well that they made it difficult, but we
01:08have played with conviction, with patience, knowing that the first war was meant to come
01:14in a moment and Lani did it really well. What happened between yesterday's press conference
01:21and today, which meant that Enzo Fernandes wasn't involved? Because we did expect that he would
01:25play for the team. Yeah, but we assess individually, collectively, what's the best for the team for
01:32tonight, what was better for other players that they were playing, and we take the decision.
01:39OK, we'll go to Enzo.
01:42No, no, no, it was a decision from myself and from the club.
01:50OK, great. And in terms of the debut talks today, what did you make of Danny, Valentin,
01:55Barco, Mike Henderson?
01:57Yeah, for them it's a special day that they will remember. Mike, for sure, he will be happy
02:02because always for a keeper to make debut and clinch it feels good. Valentin, he had an impressive
02:11performance, very dynamic, good with the ball, very aware of what was going on in the midfield.
02:19And Danny, he was the patient player. He was the one that had to be in the box waiting
02:25for one good cross to come. In the first half, we were close, but we couldn't get it. And
02:32he scored the first goal. It was important, a great delivery from Malo, and he was there
02:37and he did what he does best, the score, and to be in the right place.
02:42Go to Dom.
02:42So what about Cole Palenvo ..
02:54Well, Cole has had a great precision, he's well prepared. So he is one of the players that
03:01can take the 90 minutes. So we had an idea, depending on the context of the game. But Cole
03:10Paul has a very good fitness level in terms of stamina and now he needs to recover well
03:15for Sunday.
03:16You've been saying about your attack that it's very important that they all beat up
03:19well.
03:20I get the feeling even though Cole and Morgan Rodgers didn't score tonight, you might well
03:25have been quite pleased with their performances.
03:27Yeah, overall the team performance has been serious and for sure it's a performance to
03:35learn how to attack a low block and the 5-4-1 it's not easy against anything of any league
03:45and we need to learn from today and we will face this context in other games as well.
03:51Go to Kira.
03:54You said it was your decision and the Cubs' decision, is that because talks have opened
04:01the game today and we had other players that needed minutes and it was that way.
04:09When did you come to that decision?
04:12Yesterday.
04:13Yesterday after the press conference?
04:14In the afternoon.
04:15Did you have a chat with Enzo to tell him?
04:18It's a decision that I took.
04:21Go to Kira.
04:22Just on that chat, how did Enzo react when you told him?
04:27OK, he's a good professional and he's training well and I have nothing to say about him,
04:32so it was just decisions that we have to take, thinking about the game that we were playing
04:39tonight and we will see for Sunday.
04:41Has there been reports on the Sons of America and MartÃnez, Chelsea, who would have asked
04:47to report?
04:49Not really, not really because I like to talk about the players that are in my changing room,
04:55to focus on them and it's not respectful to talk the other way.
05:00OK, we'll do a couple more in this section.
05:02We'll do Jacob and then...
05:03Just on the goalkeeper situation, what do you make of Mike Lendez tonight for this stadium?
05:08What if MartÃnez is to come in, what would be the plan?
05:11No, talking about Mike, for sure, he will have games with more work, but you could see whenever
05:23in some moments that he was under pressure, he plays calm, he has security on his football,
05:33he didn't have many saves, but he's a great project for the future and for the present
05:40as well, so we need to go step by step and he's playing the cup and we need to see.
05:48OK, we'll get to Simon.
06:02Just finished the game, for sure.
06:06I was thinking here with Luton and here with Brighton and now we change and from tomorrow
06:12we are starting from Brighton, but everyone is, there were no injured players, some players
06:18that they play more they need to recover, but we need fresh legs, fresh heads because
06:23we have a great clash here on Sunday.
06:27We will finish this section with Dan.
06:29We are happy with the squad we have, but as I have always said, that we need to be aware
06:52of situations, that there is still this period that we can make decisions and let's see what happens.
