00:00We'll take a show of hands for questions, please.
00:02Mic's either side.
00:03We'll set an embargo partly through for 10.30pm this evening.
00:06We'll start with Alan.
00:10Enzo, good morning.
00:12There's been an awful lot of fallout following the Manchester derby on Sunday.
00:18And the referee's chief, Howard Webb, has issued a statement.
00:22He said he's really disappointed with the error that was made.
00:24How do you analyse both his statement and the overall situation, having had time to consider it now?
00:33In an easy way, in terms of our knowledge that there was a mistake.
00:42And that's all.
00:44I think sometimes goes for you, sometimes goes against you.
00:51Three years ago, when I was here, it happened exactly the same against Man United.
00:55We lost the derby there.
00:59The goal was not a regular goal, if you remember.
01:06And to be honest, no one apologised.
01:09We are still waiting for the apologise for that goal.
01:12So, sometimes it happens for you, sometimes against you, it's football.
01:18Are you pleased there's no VAR tomorrow?
01:21I'm pleased with the unbelievable performance from the players in Sunday game.
01:27I'm very pleased with that.
01:28And, again, talking about one episode or one moment after that game,
01:40you know, when we played for 70-75 minutes with 10 players,
01:43I think it's quite, I don't know the right word, probably quite poor.
01:50I think the performance was unbelievable.
01:53I'm pleased with the performance.
01:55And then tomorrow night, it's another competition.
01:58The ambition is still the same.
02:01As you said, there is not VAR.
02:03But we don't plan the game in a different way.
02:10And where does this competition lie in terms of your priorities?
02:16It's one more competition.
02:18We need to compete in all the competition.
02:22So, we're going to try to do our best.
02:24And then we'll see where we finish.
02:30And so, you've previously said in cup competitions,
02:33you would almost rather play Premier League teams
02:35than teams from lower divisions
02:36because of the potential for, I guess, things to go wrong.
02:40Is that still your feeling when it comes to matches like this?
02:44Maybe not nervousness, but just that little sense of, I don't know,
02:47it's a complication?
02:48Absolutely.
02:49They are always tricky game.
02:51The one game, they are the difficult game.
02:54Because at the end, we need to do our job in the right way,
02:56like we are trying to do.
02:58And no doubt that it's going to be a tricky game for many reasons.
03:04With this sort of match,
03:05do you view it primarily as an opportunity
03:07for some of the other players that haven't had as many minutes so far
03:10to stick a claim?
03:12Or would you rather keep a regular team as much as possible?
03:18For sure, we're going to make some changes.
03:21I don't know how many, but not because, for different reasons.
03:27Also, because the ones that they are going to play,
03:30I'm sure that at some point of the season,
03:32they are going to play important games,
03:34Premier League, Champions League,
03:35because now it's early season,
03:39no suspended, no injury player.
03:41But then November, December, January, February,
03:45with the amount of games, injury, we need the rest.
03:48So the players that they are going to play tomorrow,
03:52for sure, for them,
03:53it's also an opportunity to get them better and better and better
03:58because at some point we need them also in different competitions
04:02in important games.
04:03And lastly, for me,
04:04can I just double-check,
04:05there's no intention or is there an intention
04:07to challenge the red card for Phil Foden from Sunday?
04:13We didn't speak about, to be honest.
04:15We see, I don't know.
04:17Hi, Enzo.
04:19How has Phil been since that incident?
04:21What has his reaction been?
04:23It was, yeah, especially half time,
04:27he was very, you know, very sad, very upset
04:29because he knew that there was something wrong.
04:32Then after the game,
04:34he was a little bit more relieved,
04:35he was a little bit more happy.
04:37And then yesterday, he was very good.
04:41Anyway, Phil, he knows that probably the reaction
04:43was not a good one,
04:45but, again, he's finished and we move on.
04:49For him to be suspended at this stage of the season,
04:51how big a blow is that for him and for the team?
04:54Yeah, for us, it's a big one
04:56because, again, he was doing well with us.
05:00I also think that the other day he started quite good
05:03for the minutes he was inside the pitch.
05:06But, yeah, now he's out tomorrow,
05:09he's out Sunderland and Liverpool
05:10and then he's back again.
05:12Okay, and just to check on Jeremy Doku,
05:14how is he progressing?
05:14Is he available?
05:15Jeremy is quite close.
05:17Yeah, we are up.
05:18It's quite close.
05:23Hi, Enzo.
05:24You talked about three of the younger players
05:26being part of the first team squad this year.
05:29Are there any more that might be available
05:30that might sort of be in the squad tomorrow
05:33or is it just going to be those three?
05:34No, yeah, these three players,
05:36they work with us regularly every day
05:38unless sometimes they go with the second team,
05:41EDS, because they need to get minutes,
05:43they need to play.
05:43But they're going to be involved,
05:45all of them, in tomorrow's game.
05:47I'm not saying from the beginning,
05:48but they're going to be with us.
05:50And then we see,
05:51we have a session now in the afternoon,
05:53we see if we need some more players.
05:57I think most of us know a little bit
05:59about Makedu and Braithwaite,
06:00but probably not so much about Floyd Samba.
06:03Are you able to just sort of describe
06:06what has impressed you about him?
06:09Was it a little bit of a surprise in the summer
06:11that he's staked a claim to be
06:13around the first team every day?
06:15Yeah, when we started the pre-season,
06:17we had many young players, as you know.
06:20And then at the end,
06:20we decided to keep just these three players
06:22because we think they can be here with us,
06:26they can work with us every day,
06:27they can improve.
06:28And at some point,
06:30they can get also a chance to get some minutes.
06:32Ryan McAid already played Premier League,
06:35I think twice.
06:39Caden against Palace made some minutes.
06:41Probably the only one is Floyd,
06:43but yeah, I'm sure that soon
06:46they can get some minutes also.
06:48Can I just go back to the Derby at the weekend
06:51and the sort of fallout from it?
06:53From your point of view as a coach,
06:55generally with the Premier League,
06:58is it frustrating that quite a lot
07:02of the sort of aftermath of these big games
07:04is always about specific decisions
07:07and not a lot was discussed
07:09around the performance of the team?
07:11Again, I said at the beginning,
07:13sometimes they go for you,
07:15the decision,
07:16sometimes they go against you.
07:18But also it's not easy,
07:19I think, for the, you know,
07:21for the VIR,
07:22for the people that they are in front of the screen
07:24and in 10 seconds, 20 seconds,
07:26they have to make a decision.
07:27It's not easy for them.
07:29Sometimes they make some mistake,
07:31I make mistake,
07:32players, they make mistake.
07:33I think it's part of our job.
07:36But for sure,
07:38I don't think it's easy
07:40to be in front of the screen
07:41and take a decision in 20 seconds
07:43or in two minutes.
07:47It's complicated also for them.
07:50Sinebog for that for 10th...
07:51You
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