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City boss Maresca reacts to his side making it to the quarter finals of the EFL cup on penalties against Brighton
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00:00Please, someone to start.
00:04Someone to start, please, guys.
00:06Jamie?
00:10Hello, Enzo.
00:12Doku kind of changed the game for you a bit, would you agree, when he came on?
00:19I'm not sure he changed the game, but for sure he made an impact.
00:22And this is the reason why they are there.
00:24Jeremy and the rest, when they start from the beginning,
00:28try to do their best, and if they go inside from the bench, try to make an impact.
00:33I obviously understand the reasons why, but did you think maybe
00:36missing Haaland and Diaz and all these big players
00:38might have been a bit of a mistake at some point when you were losing the game?
00:44No.
00:46Why not?
00:48Because I was happy with the way we planned the game, with the rotation,
00:52and especially I was very, very, very happy with the ones that they were playing inside the pitch.
00:58Sometimes it's difficult for a second-choice goalkeeper to come into the team
01:04after a long time on the sidelines.
01:06What did you make of Rulli's performance today and how he did in the shootout at the end?
01:10Yeah, part of the penalty, I think overall it was good, especially in the build-up.
01:14It was not easy because they are a team that go man-to-man, aggressive.
01:18First half we tried to do some long solution with Floyd,
01:23and then second half we tried a little bit more on the floor with the field.
01:28But again, I think he made also one good save and it was good.
01:37Hi Anto, can you just describe what it's like to be a manager on a touchline
01:41when that sort of chaotic game is happening in front of you
01:45because it seemed like two real quality teams just going at each other man-to-man for 90 minutes?
01:51Yeah, they are in a brilliant moment, they are winning games, they are scoring goals,
01:57they are scoring many goals every game, three, four, five goals for a game.
02:02So we knew that it was a tough game in terms of also defending in the right way.
02:08I think, again, we could have probably done something better in terms of defensively.
02:15But again, we started just three months ago, so we have many things that we can do better.
02:22But again, the game was chaotic but I think overall we controlled quite good.
02:26Are you expecting exactly the same on Saturday?
02:29No doubt. I watched all the seven Premier League games since we started
02:34and since the first day Arsenal, Palace, Liverpool, the last one,
02:40they always go front foot, you say, man-to-man.
02:44So they are going to be excited on the same on Saturday.
02:48Hi Anto, I just wondered, do you sort of practice penalties a lot or do you sort of see how
02:52we go on the night?
02:53To be honest, since I'm here we never practice penalties.
02:58But also we had, you know, the five that they shot, they are all Phil, Ryan, Anto, Jeremy.
03:04Even Matteo. But most of the time, it always happens.
03:07The one that scored during the 90 minutes and then they missed the penalty.
03:11So, it's happened.
03:12I mean, you must have been pretty pleased with yours though.
03:14Absolutely. Yeah, yeah, yeah, very happy.
03:20Hi Enzo, you left Ruben, Erling and Gigio out of the squad, that's three captains.
03:26How pleased were you with the way that especially kind of Phil and Ryan really stepped up in that last
03:3220 minutes to get your level?
03:33Yeah, absolutely. And Mark, that was the captain after two complicated games.
03:38Tonight I think it was very good.
03:42But I think Ryan was good, Phil was good, Matteo was very good, Vitor was very good, Rico, Nico.
03:48It's good because some of them are not playing many minutes, but it's important that when we need them they
03:54are ready.
03:55And tonight they were all ready.
03:57It's early days with Phil coming back from the time he's had, but are we starting to see him returning
04:03to his best, do you think?
04:04Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. Even tonight for me was very good.
04:08The last game against Villa he played the second 45 minutes, it was not an easy game.
04:13But again, Phil has to continue in the same way because he's working well and for sure he's going to
04:17help us.
04:18And you've knocked Brighton out, Arsenal were knocked out last night.
04:21How much of an opportunity is this competition for you to go far and try to win a trophy?
04:27Yeah, absolutely. It's a different competition but the ambition has to be the same.
04:32This is a new project, new players, new manager, started three months ago.
04:37So we need to do our business that is winning game and at the moment we are doing that.
04:45He said yesterday he spoke to Rulli when he signed and he knows exactly his role, which is back up
04:52to GGO.
04:53Is he putting pressure on GGO's position?
04:56No, absolutely. Not from my point of view.
04:59He's working well but he knows exactly his role and there is not any doubt about it.
05:04Even with GGO's recent sketchy form.
05:08Absolutely, no doubt.
05:12Saturday, GGO plus 10.
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