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00:19Ali.
00:21Have you ever managed to get control of the game?
00:24Was it fitness, not fighting hard enough or too many new players?
00:30For many reasons.
00:32I think we are not team yet.
00:37For a lot of reasons.
00:39Yesterday in press conference, when you asked me what is the target,
00:47we can fix the target when you become team.
00:53Before they become team, we can't say what we can do.
00:58For sure, we are not in the right point in physical condition,
01:04for a lot of reasons.
01:05For the players, they came late after World Cup,
01:09because in Australia we couldn't work in the right way for the trip,
01:14don't take risk for a lot of things.
01:18But they are not excuses.
01:21They are the normal situation when you are building a new project, a new project.
01:33I don't want time.
01:36But we have to pass through these problems.
01:40I couldn't lose confidence in my players.
01:45I believe in my players.
01:47I believe in my club.
01:49I believe in myself.
01:50I think we are working well.
01:52But in this moment.
01:55And I knew after off-and-hand game.
01:59After off-and-hand game, I said that we are not in the right point.
02:04We are late for the start of the Premier League.
02:08But it is a step.
02:12We have to improve quickly.
02:16Anyway, we could fight stronger than we did today.
02:22We lost too many duels.
02:27We made too many mistakes in the timing when we wanted to push the pressure higher.
02:37We arrived second on the second ball.
02:41We didn't win one second ball.
02:43One duels.
02:44One tackle.
02:46And it is tough.
02:47But if you analyze everything, you can find that we played with one 2007-2006.
02:53Lukas Bergwahl.
02:55The second goal.
02:59I think he didn't play bad today.
03:05Even I substitute in the half-time.
03:08But Lukas Bergwahl, in the next two seasons, in the next two years, he will not lose that ball in
03:17that moment of the game.
03:20But there are steps to become better.
03:25Now the focus and the target is to become a team.
03:28And then, because team, you can't become a team for the transfer market window, for the players, the new players,
03:40the paper, the player of the paper.
03:47They find the spirit.
03:51They find the soul.
03:52What I said yesterday.
03:54Like I said yesterday.
03:56And it's a process.
03:59You mentioned the age of some of those players.
04:02I like them all in his head as well.
04:03Did that show today you do need more experience up front in the attacking area?
04:09No.
04:10No.
04:10No.
04:10For the attack area.
04:12For Archie Gray, the same.
04:15Shine today.
04:17No.
04:18Like Lukas.
04:20Many new players.
04:22Maybe they have to find the connection.
04:26Sandro Tonali, Senesi and Van Eycke.
04:31But I think I don't change the idea.
04:35I think we are working well as a club, as a project.
04:40We need the time, like the big teams they have done in the last ten years.
04:53Yes.
04:54Obviously it's going to take a while for your players to gel.
04:58But given how the team failed towards the end of last season, I think a lot of fans
05:04will be shocked by that.
05:05Were you shocked?
05:07Were you surprised?
05:07Yes.
05:08I'm surprised.
05:09I'm suffering for this defeat.
05:11But or we destroyed everything or we are working.
05:17If you analyze last season, the defensive line, Porro, Danso, Mickey Van de Ven and Udoge.
05:26And today Archie Gray, JP Van Eycke, Senesi and Robertson.
05:32Four new players.
05:33Two midfielders, Rodrigo Betancourt and Palinha.
05:36Today two midfielders, Berval.
05:38Why not Betancourt?
05:40Because he came late in the preseason.
05:44In the preseason we worked with Lucas Berval.
05:47I think at the beginning of the season, at the beginning of the new project,
05:52was good and was right to play with Lucas Berval.
05:59But I knew before the game, Lucas Berval in this type of game maybe he could suffer more than Rodrigo
06:06Betancourt,
06:0730 years old and Lucas 20.
06:11I knew.
06:12I knew before the game, but at the end you have to think.
06:17We go and we try to build something good for the club.
06:23We need also Archie Gray, we need also Lucas Berval or we work for today.
06:30And tomorrow, I don't know.
06:33For today, I agree.
06:37For the plan, for the project, what the club wants and what we are in the direction we are working,
06:45I think, is the normal process.
06:52Even we are suffering for defeat and we are shocking for this defeat.
06:57Especially for the way we lost the game.
07:01Because they deserve to win and we play very, very bad.
07:08So.
07:09Roberto, you talked yesterday about people's balance in terms of excitement levels.
07:15What happened this summer.
07:16This match will be quite useful in that regard for the players to keep their feet on the ground.
07:30Yes, but before the game, before this game yesterday, I told you when you asked me about the target,
07:41about the happiness for this transfer market window, I said, first of all, we have to become a team.
07:52And to become a team, in my home, there are two biggest conditions.
08:00The soul and the style of play.
08:03And today, we didn't show the soul and we didn't show the quality of the play.
08:09With the ball and without the ball.
08:11When we find these two conditions, I think we can become dangerous for everyone, every team.
08:22And until we can't, I feel, until we don't arrive, we don't reach these conditions, we have to suffer.
08:35And today, I think, is important for us this defeat.
08:45Because maybe we, see, we woke up stronger than we fought, maybe.
08:56Roberto, Archie Gray's youngest ever Spurs captain.
09:00Could you provide insight into the role that played this season, especially with Judd Spentini?
09:11Archie Gray can play as a full-back, as a midfielder, but I think it's much better than his performance
09:31today,
09:31but not just Archie Gray, also JP Van Eyck, Sandro Tonali, Richarlison, everyone.
09:45We didn't play a good game.
09:49But we can't change idea on Archie Gray for today, or for Richarlison or Mattis Tell.
10:01How long do you expect for you to arrive? Do you expect it to come before the international break? Do
10:07you expect it to come before the international break? Do you expect it before the next week against the U
10:09.S.?
10:12We need time, but I think we are much better than what we showed today.
10:22So from Wednesday we can show our qualities and we can show who we are.
10:34But anyway, even if we win Wednesday or next Saturday, we need time to become a team.
10:46Because to become a team we need time. We need time, we have to analyze the situation, we have to
10:52understand the situation, the improvement we have to do.
10:56Every one of us. Because we lose and we win together.
11:03Last season obviously Tottenham were very strong from set-pieces, but losing Romero and Paulini to the kind of big
11:10set-piece players for Tottenham last season.
11:12How are you trying to refocus?
11:16Ellis and Brentford in set-pieces are maybe the best team in Premier League.
11:21So it's normal to suffer. I think we suffer more the duels, more the second ball than the set-pieces.
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