00:00What do you think about the way you took the game away from Marseille tonight?
00:09You know it's always very difficult to play against Marseille because of the passionate fans,
00:17they have the quality of the players. What makes it even harder is that they have such a good manager
00:21who always lets his team play so well and we were prepared for that. I think in the first half you
00:27could see we took the ball three or four times off them in a very promising situation but we couldn't
00:33find the player that was completely free. We were in four versus three situations a few times and the
00:40one time we did find the player it was fractionally offside and on the ball I think we were
00:49controlled although I maybe could not better use that word because that's misintercepted,
00:54has been misintercepted a few times lately but we could find players in between the lines,
01:00we could bring our attackers in promising positions and it took a while before we scored the second
01:06because I think we had chances earlier on to score the second and the thing that was for the first
01:12time different this season than all in all the other games that the moment we were having a big
01:16chance to score the 2-0 that hit the post or the bar, ten seconds later they had a big chance and usually
01:23this season that ball goes in and we were all complaining but now the ball went over and we
01:30extended our lead to two and three nil and then the performance is still the same but the perspective
01:36about how people talk about is probably completely different. Yeah because I suppose some of us were
01:40looking to say or thought it was kind of I suppose the build-up was looking at whether you were looking for
01:45a response to the current run that you were on, do you feel you got a response time? Were you looking for a response
01:50tonight and if so how big a response was it? I can say it one more time, having a draw at home
01:57against Burnley is not the standard of this football club but we've created I think three or
02:03four times more chances against Burnley than we did tonight but we scored one and tonight we scored
02:07three and even tonight we created quite a lot of chances by the way. So against Arsenal we played a very
02:15good game against Burnley in my opinion still everyone can disagree but we played a very good
02:20game against Burnley and tonight again we played a very good game but it's a completely different
02:25game because in a game like this tactical discipline tactics game plan it all matters where if you face a
02:31low block yeah it's you don't have a meeting to tell the players how they have to bring the ball out
02:37from the back because yeah you already have the ball in 25 yards of the goal and I think Pep I've said
02:44this already 15 times this season but Pep I heard Pep saying the importance of players that dominate
02:491v1 against low block yesterday evening as well so maybe when he says it people put more emphasis on it.
02:56Also ask what you thought of Mo tonight because it's obviously been a quick turnaround for him
03:00after AFCON at the weekend to then come back train with the lads and perform as well this evening.
03:05It helps that he's always for so long with us so he knows his teammates and he knows how we want
03:12to play and it says a lot about how big of a professional he is that being away with us for
03:18a month in a different team and that he was so fit to play today 90 I think he was close to a goal
03:29good ball good ball from Cody usually that's a goal for him tonight it wasn't but it didn't harm us
03:36because we we we score free and but I think overall was very I saw a lot of good individual performances
03:44as I saw against Arsenal as I saw against Bursley as I saw tonight and I want the one I want to take out is
03:50Joe Gomez because he hasn't played a lot in the last one and a half years suffered sometimes for
03:57injuries sometimes I didn't I didn't play him when he was fit the few times that he played
04:05were moments in League Cup and in FA Cup and tonight he had an outstanding performance with
04:10with an important role in our 3-0 and how crucial now to avoid the playoffs you're up to fourth in
04:18the standings obviously in the league stage now but that has been crucial from the start because
04:22in the last 13 games we've only been 54 minutes behind and we've had multiple times a lead and
04:30but we have to play with a lot of times with the same players because we have three long-term injuries and
04:35from the start of the season we haven't had as big a squad as some of our competitors have so it's a
04:41lot about the same players and I don't think it's a reason but I you never know that if every time the
04:46same players have to play or most of them the same players then that could be maybe a reason where you
04:53run out of energy in some games where we've conceded because it is more than people understand
05:00we're already seven eight months in the season and I don't think Virgil has had more than three days off
05:06and it's the same for Ryan and it's the same for all the all these players
05:10but they constantly show up they constantly show mentality no matter how many setbacks we've had
05:14this season and again today they had a we as a team had a very good performance
05:29Did Marseille play exactly the way you expected them to or was there any surprises in their approach
05:36there are always a few details where they adjust during the game because they then see the way we
05:42approach the game but I think what you know about Marseille what you know about this manager that they
05:47want to try to bring the ball out from our back in a certain style when they have a goal kick and in
05:51open play they also have a certain style but I could also see and that's why I think he's also such a good
05:57coach such a good manager that he does adjust and small things to our game plan and that was what
06:03makes these games even for me and also for me much more interesting than facing low blocks because now
06:10you have to be sharp you have to be alert you have to adjust in your tactics in your game plan
06:14where against low blocks it has nothing to do with tactics
06:24depends because if you face low blocks you have to ball a lot and usually if you have to ball a lot
06:28you could assume you win the game and that would have been normal for us if you compare the chances
06:33we create and the chances we concede but because of multiple reasons this season we weren't able
06:38if you tell me it's nicer to approach a game you show when you watch games of them like my side or
06:47a madrid's or a identical madrid's or other games we've played we've played in the champions league
06:52the teams we face do mainly the same as they do in the other games we're in the premier league it's
06:58it's seven eight nine games uh uh before we play them in a certain style and then they play us and
07:04they completely change their style and then yeah you're standing in the line and just having ball
07:11possession hoping something happens and of course we train on certain things and of course we try to
07:16make small details better but the end is as pep yesterday said dominating the 1v1 is crucial against
07:22low blocks yeah you can what what happened with him what what's the injury to move two three minutes
07:31after uh you guys left yesterday he stepped out of the training session we took him with us because
07:36we don't expect it to be a long-term injury so we are here for because we stay here tonight we're here
07:41a bit longer uh we thought it was good for him to have his treatment over here and we were hoping that
07:46maybe he would have been fit in time but he wasn't he tried in the warm-up and um he wasn't able to play
07:54that's why he wasn't on the bench yeah thank you
