00:00How are you, Diego?
00:04I get the feeling that in the second halves, it happened in Bilbao, not as much so in Sevilla,
00:11we have a feeling that the team don't manage to carry through the good that they've done in the first
00:16half.
00:17Do you say that that's because the physical condition of the team isn't what it was last year?
00:24Or is it the fact that they find it difficult to maintain what they do in the first half?
00:29I think it's normal that you don't do the same in the second half.
00:33That would mean that we're not physically in the right condition.
00:35In the first half we played well, in the second half we didn't.
00:43And then you start to commit errors or mistakes in the second half.
00:47And all the effort that you put in is just an anecdote.
00:52It happened in Bilbao.
00:55It's happened here in Anfield.
00:57But to be honest, what's important, what counts are the results.
01:01The details are important as well.
01:04We're conceding many goals, of course.
01:07Three in Bilbao, one in Sevilla, two tonight.
01:12And that happens because of the team.
01:14We have to work on it.
01:15We have to work a great deal.
01:17I've said that we're in a construction phase.
01:20People don't like to hear that.
01:22But we are building.
01:23And we still need to...
01:26The version you're going to see from two years ago.
01:28And Kuti Romero came in.
01:31He is...
01:32He looked like he was in form tonight, Kuti.
01:35I really like Kuti's game to now.
01:37Today he was strong.
01:39He showed responsibility.
01:41He showed the ability to be able to correct individual situations.
01:45I think Julian was fantastic.
01:49He wanted the ball all the time, from minute one to minute 90.
01:52And that makes me very happy.
01:58You spoke about the team being in a construction phase.
02:02Today, from a sporting sense, you looked for three...
02:06You played with three centre-backs.
02:08But in the second half, you changed things around.
02:11Do you think that that change was good?
02:15Or did you not like what you saw in the first half?
02:17Or was it because of the scoreline?
02:21What made you change?
02:24Because it seemed to be working very well in the first half.
02:28I think when the changes came in, when we went down,
02:32we looked for different solutions that allowed us to get back into the game.
02:38Because we didn't have many chances in the first half.
02:41Maybe we had one.
02:43I can't quite remember exactly now.
02:46I don't know if we had many chances in the second half.
02:49But I have no doubt that the details in football are...
02:54what makes you up there in the middle or right down there.
02:58And we needed or we need to adjust certain things because lots of the goals we concede are on us.
03:07They are our responsibility.
03:10Yesterday, you said that we wouldn't see Julian Alvarez from the start.
03:15What made you change your mind?
03:17I spoke to him in the morning.
03:19He spoke very well with me.
03:21And fortunately, I decided that he should play.
03:24And I'm glad I did because that's the kind of game that I want to see.
03:28The kind of performance I want to see from him.
03:35I think your team looked very strong in the first half, especially how you moved the ball around.
03:39Do you think that you've already made a step forward in that regard?
03:48Well, I think the team played the type of game they needed to play.
03:56We have to start understanding, interpreting certain moments in the game where you have to continue to play in one
04:03way or change it slightly.
04:05Today, we didn't do that.
04:06And I think that's why we ended up conceding the goals that we conceded.
04:11But I think the team gave everything.
04:14It's a really important game.
04:18I think the team wants to grow.
04:20And I think we have to accept those small details that are making it not worthwhile, everything that we've done.
04:30Because a defeat completely wipes out any positives that you have from the game.
04:36Thank you very much.
