00:20Roberto, you started the game with such a fast, strong tempo, the first 20 minutes seemed fantastic.
00:26Why didn't that translate into golf?
00:30I'm honest, I'm always honest with you, because when we play bad, I say we play very bad, but when
00:43I come in press conference, 99% I'm honest, like with the players, like with the club.
00:49I said we started this season late in many, many reasons, but too late, many players for the World Cup,
00:59many problems, injuries in Australia.
01:04Mateus Fernandes, Mickey Van de Ven, Dominic Solanki, for not our responsibility or the club, our club responsibility, but we
01:15brought two players late, Savio and Marmouche.
01:24And I started to work with this group, not last Thursday, two first days ago.
01:31So I think we have not the right physical condition yet.
01:42And I think we played very well the first 30 minutes and then maybe the energy, maybe the fact we
01:50didn't score, maybe we lost in some players a little confidence.
01:56We have to be not positive, but realistic.
02:00If we extend that part of the game 30 minutes in 17, 60, 80, 19, for my opinion, for my
02:10belief, we're going to win many games.
02:15We have to improve in the last third of the pitch, for sure, the last decision, the last pass, we
02:25have to shoot more times, especially when we have space and time to do, we have to do with the
02:37right spirit.
02:42But I can't say nothing bad because I know how the players are working very well.
02:50I think we are in the right way.
02:52It's tough to explain because four games without goals is tough to accept.
02:58We are sorry for the fans, but the fans, they went today behind the players.
03:04When the players, in the first 30 minutes, they played very well, it was a hot, hot stadium.
03:11And then, like me, like every fan of Tottenham or the people inside of the club, we were sad because
03:2575 times in the goal area,
03:31and not shoot enough to explain the quality of the play we did, also in the second half.
03:40Also in the second half, because I watched many, many, many games winning teams, creating less than us in the
03:48second half.
03:49But what is the problem? The problem is the goal. And the real problem, the most important problem is the
03:57players have to be focused on the first 30 minutes and on the improvement we can do and we have
04:05to do.
04:06Not about the social media, not about the journalists, because today, if you would have won today, now we stayed
04:20in different ways with smile, great first half, great spirit in the second half, great, great, great.
04:27But the result changed the opinion. My opinion? No, because I'm a coach, I'm not a journalist, I'm not a
04:38fan.
04:40I saw you after the final whistle going over to Matisse Tell. It looks like you were kind of coaching
04:45him.
04:45Yes, I coached him on the pitch. What did you understand? What did you understand? The body shape is a
04:53striker, the striker can't play with the shoulder on the goal.
04:58If we are playing with Madison, Kudos and Savinho, he has to play like as a striker and the striker
05:07have to look the goal, no?
05:11Or on the cross of Robertson. He has to stay inside because he started as a striker. Now he's playing
05:21as a winger, but he started his career as a striker.
05:29But I love Matisse as a player, as a guy. There is not a problem.
05:38Roberto, you talk about confidence, the confidence of the players being an issue. How much of the fact that they
05:44haven't scored is starting to play on their minds?
05:47Yes, yes. I think there is a word in Italian that he knows. If we don't block ourselves, I think
06:00the team is extremely strong.
06:04And we can score goals and we can win games. And then we have to respect the history of the
06:14players in their career.
06:19Forget Solanki or Marmouche, the other players, they didn't score many, many games, many, many goals in their career.
06:29And we have to find these goals. I think we can find the goals with the quality of the play,
06:36with the full-back, because we have great full-backs.
06:41Robertson today played very well. I don't know if we believe on the cross and we prepare the game exactly
06:52in that way.
06:58Sorry, when you say unblock ourselves, this Italian word, do you mean like a mental block?
07:04A mental block, because for games, any win, any goal scored is tough also for the players, because they are
07:16human and they are very good guys.
07:21And I asked them to follow me, because if the last season I was positive, I can't understand why I
07:32have not been the same this season.
07:39In Italy, for example, now I should be the best coach, no? Two games, too clean shit.
07:55Tomorrow, what do you write? Clean shit or no gold? Explain me what you want to... Do you have the
08:03passport or Italian or...?
08:11I'm right, yes. Thank you.
08:16You said you're late, but you're very late now. It's five games in, you know, I guess some people will
08:22say it sounds a bit like excuses.
08:23You know, preseason, World Cup, new signings, lots of clubs have the same thing.
08:27First of all, four games, not five. We didn't play a game with Aston Villa, after Aston Villa, we played
08:48five games.
08:48With the Cup as well, five?
08:50Yes, but five nil. Five one. And we scored five goals with Aston Villa, with Charlton.
08:56Because Charlton, we won, scoring five goals. So we speak about the Premier League, four games.
09:04I think the people and the fans, I think they already understood if I take excuse or not.
09:15I came last season when the shit was like this, you know? The shit. I repeat the...
09:25And I always been, not positive, but realistic.
09:34Now, I explained, I'm sorry for the results, but it's not immediately, you know, the improvement, not immediately to make
09:55a team.
09:55Today, we played as a team. We didn't score, we didn't win, but today and Nottingham, I think we played
10:03as a team.
10:06And I can't say nothing as an attitude, as a behaviour of the player, no, no.
10:13I said to stay calm, maybe to don't lose the confidence because we are not scoring, we are not winning.
10:22Stay calm, improve, work hard and individually, try to understand where is the improvement.
10:34Now, I spoke with Mathis Tell, just at the end of the game, to explain what was his position today.
10:55How far away are Tottenham from being at their best, physically, do you think?
11:06I don't know, now we play Tuesday in Liverpool and we play with all other players,
11:20but it will be a very important game for us.
11:26We can improve playing the games, we can improve working harder during the week.
11:33I don't know, I think Rodrigo Betancourt, he came late after the World Cup and is crucial for us.
11:44And I didn't want to change him today, but I thought maybe he finished the energy in that moment of
11:56the game.
11:57Sandro Tonari, for example, played better in the second half.
12:02Robertson, JP Van Eyck, they stayed directly for the first period of the pre-season.
12:12Mickey Van Eyck suffered an injury in Australia, Domi Solanke the same, Madison the same, Savino and Marmouche, they came
12:23ten days ago.
12:26Mateus Fernandez suffered an injury in Australia, he lost 15 days and he's not so quick.
12:41Okay.
12:47What's the Italian food?
12:48particular means I've got a bit forward.
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