00:10What an incredible tournament, did you always believe the fact that there was a tournament?
00:15Yeah, I definitely believed and I think believe was a big reward in the preparation from us
00:23because I think when you go to a place like here, to an environment like here to face a team
00:29like United
00:30then you need to have belief, you need to have belief in every situation of the game
00:34but then to show the belief when you are tunneled down, that shows the character
00:37and that shows that we really stick together, that the players have a strong social bond
00:43that they can really trust and rely on each other and that's something.
00:46What we don't see in TV, we always focus on goals, chances, tactical approaches
00:51but in the end the foundation and the key from this game was exactly like this,
00:56this togetherness, this connection, these relationships they built on the pitch
01:01and I think the longer the game went, the more we crawled into the game,
01:06the more we had the control of the game and in the end I think it was a deserved win.
01:12Your record here is incredible, does that play into players' minds and strengthens it?
01:19I'm not sure how many players today were on the pitch who experienced winning here
01:23so we had a lot of newcomers today on the pitch but what we always want to emphasise
01:29is that when we play our level, when we play and maintain the standards high
01:35then we can compete very well in the league and that's our mindset,
01:38that's how we try to have the approach and that's also what we try to send
01:42as a message towards the players.
02:02It comes back to the players so I have to give them a lot of praise and in the end
02:09I call them like social leader,
02:12social leader, for example Chase Steele, Pascal Gross, Louis Stank.
02:17Social leader for me is important because they integrate the new players quite fast,
02:22they give them an understanding of what are values here at Brighton
02:25and on top of that they really connect the different nationalities we have
02:29and I think that's so important, that's the work no one can measure
02:33and for me it's crucial, it's our foundation that we build like this trust on the pitch,
02:38that we build like this reliability on the pitch and I think it's so crucial that you have like these
02:43social leaders
02:43who are able to see different dynamics, who are able to bring people together
02:48and I think that's something we shouldn't underestimate because this will be always the foundation from us.
02:53Have you seen the draw or what will not continue?
02:57We take like it is so I'm not here to complain, we want to go as far as possible
03:04and let's see who we'll face next but in the end if you want to win something
03:11you have to be in every game on your highest level, maybe we go again to Manchester, maybe not so
03:16we will see
03:17but overall now we should focus first on Arsenal, we should recover well
03:23and then we have another home game, hopefully another very energetic and intense performance for home supporters.
03:30On the subject of Arsenal, you spoke about belief at the start, you must feel there's no stopping your side
03:36heading into that game?
03:38No, I think that we have to stay very humble now and get an understanding why we are in the
03:46place where we are.
03:47It's about doing the basic things right and doing the small margins right and therefore it's so important
03:52that we keep this in our mind, that we stay humble, that we don't take these things for granted,
03:58that we step into the game and understand, OK, it's hard work again.
04:01It's hard, hard work, it's doing the basic things right and then we can grow into the game.
04:05And then we also know and then we come back to the belief that we are a good football team.
04:09Sorry, it's a big day for the club on Saturday, 125 years of big celebration around the club.
04:20You are relatively new to the club but what do you think about Brighton when you come to places like
04:27this
04:28and win so regularly and you should never do that? What do you think Brighton is in terms of English
04:35football and European football?
04:38We are a club that is well-structured. We are a club and I think it's very important to emphasize
04:45this,
04:46that it has like high expectations. So we want to grow and we want to challenge the establishment in a
04:52consistent way.
04:53And for that I think it's very important to understand that we need always to focus on our daily behaviors
04:59because daily behaviors, they create habits and habits create like this consistency to really challenge the establishment.
05:05I'm part of it. I'm part of it and I'm very privileged to be a manager from Brighton.
05:11So therefore I always try to give my best to get off my staff, to get off the players, to
05:15make our supporters proud.
05:17Because in the end we know we need everyone to be successful and we know we need everyone to grow
05:24as a team.
05:25We want to go step by step but what we definitely have is a great culture and our culture is
05:30always our foundation
05:31and our foundation is the base of every game.
05:36Kevin, can I just ask you, a lot of midfielders won big money in the summer but how do you
05:41put a value on Pascal Goss?
05:43Because you mentioned the way he does it socially for the team but in terms of the game, what do
05:47you do?
05:48I think what he has is a good understanding of the game. So compare him a little bit with a
05:55good wine.
05:56The older the wine gets, the better the wine gets. So therefore you have to give a lot of praise
06:02to Pascal
06:02because one thing we shouldn't underestimate, he runs every game and he runs every game more than around like 12k.
06:11And if you have these kind of players you can play intense and I think that's one of the strengths
06:16to of course run a lot to understand the game well and besides that he has like this winning mentality.
06:22He wants to win and I think this like winning mentality like the young boys benefit from this
06:28and yeah he's a great leader for me and it's really pleasing to work with him.
06:33Can you just ask about the atmosphere of the draft in the right last 20-30 minutes?
06:37Because as you said your team came up through wins in the game,
06:39maybe we used to seeing United in the last 10 minutes, maybe it would bombard the opposition
06:43but that never really came.
06:45Do you think the atmosphere maybe being under angsty helped your side as well?
06:49I didn't focus on the atmosphere because it's something that I can't control.
06:53So myself I really try to focus on the controllables and that's how we still try to get pressure on
06:59the ball.
07:00Also in the last minutes we don't want to be a team that sits back, we want to have the
07:04ball,
07:05we still want to score goals, we want to play intense football
07:08and I think it's proven that especially when you're up that you should like change your game,
07:15you should get pressure on the ball, you should like try to stick to the game plan
07:19because if you try to change something in the last five to ten minutes
07:24then you're not really connected on the pitch and that's something that we try to avoid.
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