00:14Hi, guys. We will start with a broadcast section that's got no embargo, followed by an embargoed section for 10
00:19.30 p.m. tonight.
00:20No live tweeting during the broadcast section. Let me use the microphone. Michael.
00:24Hi, Roberto. Who is out for the match tomorrow?
00:36Pedro is back. Robertson is available. Marmouche is good. Solanke is good. Lucas Bergvall, Savio.
00:53No, nothing more, I think.
00:54Sorry, Lucas Bergvall and Savio are out.
00:56Out, out, yeah.
00:57Okay, thank you.
00:58But I'm cool.
01:00Yes.
01:01One win in 34 league matches at Chelsea, before your time, of course.
01:05Why do you think Tottenham have such a bad record at Chelsea?
01:10I think it's not just this negative record. There are many, many negative records, but for me it's one motivation
01:20more.
01:21And for the players, I want this negative record. They give us more motivation, more mentality, more energy to win
01:36a game, to play a good game and to win a game because we have the qualities enough to win
01:41a game.
01:45Tottenham's biggest rival is Arsenal.
01:47Tottenham's biggest rival is Arsenal, but for Chelsea this is their main rival. It's always a big match. How much
01:51do you enjoy the big derby matches?
01:54Yes, it's a derby. It's against one very good team, very good coach. They have a clear style of play.
02:06Great players, but also the Tottenham players are very good. I think the level of the players is high. We
02:16have to show together as a team, as an individual.
02:20There have been many famous battles at Chelsea and on-pitch fights. I know you love to see what Bentancourt
02:28did at Manchester last Saturday. Do you have to warn the players not to go too far?
02:35Yes, where is the balance? It's always very difficult to fix a balance between the energy, the spirit, the mentality
02:50and to stay inside.
02:55If you have confidence in the players, you leave the player the freedom to decide their behaviour, to decide their
03:03reaction.
03:04For sure, I prefer one too strong reaction than one player without blood, without reaction.
03:17Good luck tomorrow.
03:22You've faced Chelsea quite a few times in the Premier League and of course here at Tottenham you faced them
03:26in May at Stamford Bridge.
03:27Do you think there's anything that you could take from that game? A little bit of a different style of
03:32play that they play now that can help you prepare?
03:34I think every game is different. We change many players. They change not too many players but they change coach
03:43to coach in the last two seasons.
03:48But nothing changes. You have to run, you have to fight, you have to put the same behaviour that we
03:55are putting in the last two games.
03:59And then there is the game to play with personality, with courage, to find a way to score, to find
04:09a way to defend in the best way we can.
04:14With courage and nothing more.
04:18Against Coventry you had a lot of the possession, it seems it will be different against Chelsea, maybe more balanced
04:27or maybe they could possibly have a bit more.
04:29When your team isn't on the ball, what do you want to see from your players?
04:33When we have the ball?
04:34When you don't have the ball.
04:37We kept the ball with Coventry, we didn't create too many chances like in Manchester or in Aston Villa also.
04:50But there is a reason because when you find a lot of blocks so close, 5-4-1 or 5
04:57-3-2 or 4-4-1-1, it's still difficult.
05:01If you watch the game Man City-Coventry, considering Man City one of the best teams in Europe.
05:11Also Man City didn't shoot too many times because it is a totally different game than one opener game.
05:26I think the last season, the last games with Chelsea, we could make a great result.
05:40We conceded one stupid goal but now it's completely changing the situation.
05:46And you said after the Coventry game, sometimes when Tottenham had possession, you were a little bit predictable, a little
05:53bit boring, you could have been better.
05:55Who said?
05:56You.
05:58Against the Chelsea side, that changed their shape a lot during the game, especially in their defence from a 4
06:05-5, sometimes to a 3.
06:07How important is it that your players know to address these changes on the pitch because you can't always communicate
06:13and be there?
06:13Against Coventry, we played three at the back. We were predictable, not because we played three at the back,
06:24but because we played against one long block. We conceded any counter-attack.
06:29I think we played a very good game in the order on the pitch, in the space we occupied.
06:37We can play tomorrow three at the back. We can play four, like the first period. Nothing changed.
06:47It depends on the game. The game is more vertical or more in control.
06:52Also for the behaviour and for the attitude of the opponent. If the opponent comes strong in the pressure, you
07:04will play more vertical.
07:06If they stay with the loft block, if they cover the line pass, you have more time in control.
07:12But maybe you have less spaces between the line, less spaces to do one-to-one in dribbling.
07:20They are totally different games.
07:23Hi Roberto. Great to see James Madison start the other night and Dan Kudusiewski come back.
07:29But how have their bodies physically reacted?
07:31I don't know, because in the first three days Madison didn't work with us.
07:38I don't know if he's ready for tomorrow.
07:42We can play also with Matisse Tell, we can play with Marmouche Insider, we can play with Gallagher.
07:50Or we have more solutions considering Pedro Poro can play.
07:58Like I said many times, I don't want to take risk, no?
08:03Because if you analyse this period of football, European football, you can see many, many injuries, no?
08:15Not for Tottenham, for everyone.
08:17So if I can, I don't want to take risk to lose many players for many games.
08:26And Kudusiewski as well?
08:28Kudusiewski also.
08:30Kudusiewski worked well, but on the first day he stayed individual.
08:40Another injury one.
08:41Destiny Odogi, is he OK?
08:43No, he's not available.
08:46With his injury history, is he someone you're just going to have to always carefully manage?
08:52With the medical staff, we are trying to find the best way for him, because managing the player is anyway
09:03work.
09:03But after Manchester United, I have not worked with him.
09:12And this is a problem.
09:16We are lucky because we are lucky because we have in the same position many solutions.
09:23Robertson, like you said, Ben Davies and Mickie van der Ven, if we play three at the back.
09:35But we have to find the best for him and the best for us.
09:40Last one, just because he hasn't been mentioned in a while, I was just wondering,
09:42Wilson Odebeer, how close is he to coming back to training?
09:45I don't know, because he has not started yet to work with us and I have no idea.
09:53James, please.
09:57Hi, Roberto.
09:58A big part of Chelsea's plan in the last few years has been signing players and staff from your former
10:04club, Brighton.
10:05They signed 16 players and staff from Brighton.
10:08I just wondered, when you were Brighton manager, what that was like for you,
10:12to have one club constantly coming to your club to take players and staff?
10:17What do you think?
10:18Not great.
10:19No, not at all.
10:22Yes, but they brought great players, nothing to say, no?
10:29Casseido, Joe Pedro, well back now, Buonanotte, Barco, Robert Sanchez, Colwell, but Colwell was on loan.
10:46Does it make you personally any more motivated when you face Chelsea?
10:52No, I'm always motivated with Chelsea or with another team.
10:58And you know, when you work in Brighton, you work to make happy your club.
11:08To make happy your club, sometimes you need to sell players.
11:13The players want and they push to live in the bigger club.
11:20So it's football, it's normal part of football.
11:23There's a lot of talk about Chelsea's front three.
11:26You mentioned Joe Pedro, Morgan Rodgers as well, Cole Palmer.
11:29Do you think that's the best attack in the Premier League right now?
11:32One of the best for sure.
11:34What makes them so good?
11:37About the talent, three big talent.
11:40They have also Pedro Neto, another very good player.
11:45They have Jordan Henderson and Welbeck.
11:49They have Esteval, they have more than three players.
11:54But normally these three players are now in the best moment of their career.
12:01I don't know.
12:04Hi Roberto, you obviously know the record that Tottenham have at Chelsea.
12:08Do you sense any fear in your players ahead of tomorrow's match?
12:16No, I think no.
12:18And what about inside the whole club, not players but staff?
12:22Do you get that sense that people inside Tottenham think it's Chelsea, we know what's going to happen again?
12:29No, I think no, because I played just one time in Chelsea as a Tottenham coach.
12:40In any way, there has to be one motivation more, no?
12:46One fair, one problem for us.
12:48What is the problem?
12:49We didn't play in the past with Tottenham.
12:55I was not the Tottenham coach in this season, in the last season, so I think it's not a problem.
13:03We have already many problems, this is not a problem.
13:07Have you spoken to the players about the record though?
13:10No.
13:11Yet.
13:12So you do plan to use that?
13:14It can be a good motivation, like I said, no?
13:20But no one pressure, just one motivation.
13:26It's just funny for me, it was a close game in May when you did go there,
13:30and there was the incident at the end of the game where Micky van der Ven was pulled down,
13:33but the ball wasn't in play.
13:36Do you hope tomorrow, because it will be a white-hot atmosphere,
13:40that the referee is strong and it's fair with both teams?
13:43No, no.
13:44I don't want the referee speaking about the referee.
13:49We have to keep the focus, keep the eyes on the ball, on our game, on our plan,
13:57on our mentality and our energy and stop, nothing more.
14:03OK, we'll end the broadcast.
