00:02I know, I'm happy to do that on Wednesday.
00:05Yeah.
00:06Don't mind about that.
00:07Yeah, yeah.
00:08It's there.
00:10I told you it's the main stage.
00:12I'll respond to it.
00:22Okay.
00:24So, who would like to start?
00:27Any takers?
00:30Ertu?
00:32Hi, Pierre.
00:33That must be very satisfying for you to win your first Premier League match at home
00:38and against the club's former manager as well.
00:42I'm happy to win the first home game in Premier League,
00:46but it's not about it was the team of the former manager,
00:51because, as I told you, I have a lot of respect for him and what he did here.
00:56And I think today they show they are a good team and maybe they deserve better today.
01:07Your team didn't have the greatest start to the game, but it all kind of turned around on the amazing
01:12saves from the goalkeeper.
01:13Just a word for Walter Benitez.
01:16We start well, without a mistake.
01:20After that, we have 20 minutes.
01:22We were bad and Walter made a save with a lot of bravery.
01:27I think he let us on the game.
01:32And that was really important at this moment, because you know and you saw that we lead at the half
01:39-time with 2-1.
01:40And I think if it was 2-0 for them, the mentality and all the things will be more difficult.
01:50And his performance today is really crazy.
01:54And I have to congratulate him, because when you play as number two, it's always difficult.
02:00And for the moment we are really happy with all our keepers, because they keep us in a good way
02:09to win games.
02:11Thank you, Chris.
02:14Hi, Pierre.
02:15You said Nottingham Forest maybe deserved better.
02:19Did you think your team played well today?
02:24By moments.
02:26I think at the beginning, or just after the goal, we had a big opportunity to come back to 1
02:31-1.
02:31On the cross of Kelaide and Jürgen Strand-Larsen shot high.
02:40And by moments, we have the control of what we do.
02:44When we scored the first goal, we changed what we did at the beginning.
02:50In our build-up, we play more direct and we play the second ball.
02:54But after the second ball, in small spaces, what did the player was really crazy.
02:59And the 1-1 is really a nice goal.
03:03And I think the third one is more or less in the same way.
03:09That's why this team is able to play.
03:11And we need to be consistent as we were in Leeds.
03:17But at the end, today we were less good as we were in Leeds, but we win.
03:25So we have to deal with that.
03:28Nottingham Forest had quite a lot of good chances.
03:30Like you said, the keeper played well, but they also missed some chances as well.
03:34Is it a concern at the moment?
03:35How many chances that your team is giving up?
03:38It's not normal to concede too much chances as we concede today.
03:45We had a problem in the first half, especially in the area of Hendoi.
03:50They attacked Jefferson.
03:53They played his back on the lap and they come to play the second ball.
03:56It was really difficult to deal with that.
03:59In the second half, he put Hendoi wide and he played 1v1 by dribbling.
04:06And we struggled a lot with this player today.
04:10And his strength is the speed and the skills, the technical skills.
04:15But we have to be more efficient in 1v1 when we defend.
04:23You got the win, which is the most important thing.
04:25Is there a sense maybe of just some relief that you have that win, especially at home?
04:30And also for the players now, do you see them being more confident because of that result especially?
04:36Like I told you, after the first win, it's always better to work and to improve our way of playing
04:43when we win.
04:46But we have to be honest with what happened on the pitch.
04:49And I think everybody is aware of that.
04:53Every player is aware of that.
04:55But I want to underline one thing.
04:57They give their life on the pitch.
04:59And sometimes it's a good way to win too.
05:02We have to do that and to be more efficient in the play.
05:06But we will be able to do that after games and games because we have that.
05:11You cannot show that sometimes and to lose it forever.
05:18We need to be consistent.
05:21And I think after the international break, it's a good result.
05:25And that can help us to be good in our future games.
05:30Okay.
05:32Pass the mic to Matt, please.
05:35Hi, Pierre.
05:36You said before the game that your team might get confidence and team spirit,
05:44and that that would help to influence the next sort of three games going forward.
05:49Do you feel like there was a good team spirit today you talked about?
05:52I think you just touched on it there.
05:53How much do you think that will help going forward?
05:57How much?
05:58It's difficult to say.
06:00But you know when you win, you have always the need to play again.
06:07And for that we have a game on Thursday, a big game in Lyon.
06:13And we have to prepare it.
06:15And I think to prepare the thing when you are more quiet in your mindset, when you are without doubt,
06:24you can improve quickly.
06:26Okay.
06:27But we know the game was not perfect today.
06:31We have to accept that.
06:33But we have to understand that sometimes we have to win like this.
06:37And I think if I let the show is to everybody to make a good performance today and lose before
06:46Lyon,
06:46I think we are today in better conditions to prepare this game and the other one after.
06:54I don't like to speak like this because I want the best as you, good performance, good result.
07:01But for the moment it's not stable and we have to work on that.
07:07You said that the game was not about the former manager.
07:11But the narrative around the game was a lot about Oliver Glasner coming back.
07:15How did you keep the players calm, focused away from that narrative ahead of the game?
07:21Without speaking of that.
07:23I never spoke about the former manager to the players in the preparation of this game.
07:32They know because, as you said, there's a narrative around this and the game is not against Oliver.
07:40The game is against Nottingham and that's the most important thing.
07:44And it's not about revenge or confirmation or something like this for every individual player.
07:57And it's only about one game. One game in a big series. We have a lot of games in October.
08:06And we need to warn a lot because we are ambitious in our competition.
08:15And the former manager is not the key point of the game, I think.
08:23We just have to be respectful with him, with what he did here with this team.
08:28And he helped me a lot because this team knew and is able to do a lot of things.
08:35And I have to thank him for that.
08:39You say the team, you're ambitious in all these competitions.
08:42It's obviously very early in your tenure here at the moment.
08:45But how far away do you think the team are from playing the style of football that you want to
08:50instill here?
08:50We are able to do it, but we need to be able to do it game after game and minute
08:58after minute in a game.
09:00And it's the most difficult thing when we start a project like this one.
09:06But I think today, as I told you, all was not perfect, but you saw some things that we want
09:15to do.
09:16And the most important thing is to choose how we play.
09:20And when we are able to do that, I think it's a good signal.
09:26You know, it's the same thing for the set pieces because the second goal was really prepared in this way.
09:32And that's why I have to talk about the set pieces coach, Damien Delessanta,
09:36because he did a good job in this department and he helped a lot of the players.
09:45OK. That's it. Thanks so much, everybody.
