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Good, thank you.
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I had a look at training outside.
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It looked like no fresh problems from Wednesday.
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Zhao back with the squad.
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How is Dom Solanke?
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Dom didn’t train, but probably tomorrow we’ll train with him and he’ll be available.
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Some problems with hips, so I think he’ll be OK.
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No issues apart from that then?
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Good news for you.
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No, no, no.
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I’m going to be positive, but let’s start with one little negative.
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The FA misconduct, Charles, just to get your reaction to that.
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Yeah, they told me about this with the club.
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Focus on the game is the most important thing.
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Right.
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This big plans Sunday, all supporters groups are getting together.
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Around 15,000,
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20,000 are going to be cheering yourself and the team on the coach going into the
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stadium.
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Everyone putting their feelings to one side, supporting you.
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How does that feel here in that?
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No, nice, nice.
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What I said after the game was a beautiful feeling of togetherness with the fans.
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Very rare I felt this.
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I enjoyed feeling, you know, like a sensation that we were doing good in the pitch.
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together with them,
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together with the fans,
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so that was really nice,
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rare,
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as I said,
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so we need to continue all together in this,
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if we can say,
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small positive moment after these two games where we can recognise small but
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important things for the squad.
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The fans are pumped and the players have seen that as well and the players have
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I’ve retweeted and commented with the fans.
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How do you feel going into it?
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Did you get that feeling as well?
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Because I know you went down the tunnel a bit early at full time on Wednesday,
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but did you get that feeling in the stadium?
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Yeah, there is a positivity, but also understanding that the game is not a bit easy.
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So,
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an important game,
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but probably we will not decide anything after the game,
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independent of the results.
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So, we need just to keep going on what we did last two games.
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Good luck, Charlie.
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Hi, Igor.
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Obviously,
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your team have produced two really good performances and results over the past
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week,
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and that was under intense pressure with so few players available on the bench.
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What have you learned about your players over the past seven days or so that
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perhaps you didn’t know beforehand?
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What I learned about players, what I didn’t know before.
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The question is, what I can tell you about that question, nothing new.
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I didn’t learn nothing new.
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Nottingham Forest, of course, were in action yesterday in the Europa League.
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They were away from home, but they had to go all the way to penalties to win their tie.
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How much of an advantage do you think it is that they had to play one day later than yourself?
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There will be no advantage because the coach made it in the way so the players who
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started didn’t play more than 60 minutes.
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So there will not be an advantage from this point of view.
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And there’s a great stat going into this game on Sunday.
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Spurs have scored the second most goals from corners in the Premier League this
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season and Forrest have conceded the second most goals from corners this season.
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So how big a part do you think set pieces could play on Sunday?
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Set pieces are all very important.
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After you sent me about this statistic,
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we just need to go and set pieces and win if it’s possible.
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But of course there is not just set pieces,
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so it’s a long game to play,
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a few games in the game.
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We need to be inside from the first to last second of the game, including five subs.
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Big respect to them because they have players who can
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hurt us,
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but as well going on our sides,
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going on with our things,
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with confidence,
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with courage,
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with humbleness,
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with all that stuff,
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unnecessary to take the points.
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I’ll ask you about Xavi.
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The other night you created so many chances and it felt like he was a really
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important part of that.
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How do you get him playing like that consistently for you?
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No, I didn’t get him.
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He himself was motivated, was good, was with the right mentality.
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When he’s like that, his quality is coming out.
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So his qualities connect a lot with these things I said now.
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really beautiful surprise for me,
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he was inside from the first second of the game and it was nice to find in him this
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resource we needed in these last games,
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we still have to play.
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With Archie,
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I think they had the most ball recoveries,
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those two players,
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and it’s strange to have a playmaker who’s actually a fighter as well.
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For sure,
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in football today it’s always about 11 players who need to defend,
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so the more players you have with these values,
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the better result you get.
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One player I wanted to ask about,
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Mohamed Koudous,
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we’re kind of wondering when you’re going to have him back,
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when do you think?
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Oh, so we have this big three weeks after the game of Sunday.
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I don’t know, probably some part of the things with the squad, maybe ten days.
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I don’t know, I’m not sure, we need to check.
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but he’s progressing very well already with the ball.
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Rodrigo as well, Madison as well.
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We hope that the medical staff will make us some nice surprise in the next weeks.
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It will be very important to have them.
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So you could have James Madison before the end of the season, maybe?
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Yeah,
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he’s already doing interesting things as well,
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with the ball,
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sprinting as well,
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I saw him,
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he’s positive.
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Nothing on Kulishevski, any progress?
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No, not yet.
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Hi, Igor.
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I wanted to ask you about the break after this match.
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It’s obviously the international break, but then you have a weekend with no fixture.
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Are you already kind of planning what you want to do during then?
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Maybe a training ground game, take the players away?
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A lot of players for the national team, of course.
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We make already plans, so it will be some rest and a lot of work.
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Would you like to have a game during that period of the weekend where you don’t have a fix?
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We want to see, for now it’s not in programme.
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In terms of this match,
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obviously whatever start in XI you pick is important,
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but how conscious are you of having those players on the bench that can come on and
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make the impact and make you finish strongly?
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Yes, it would be nice to have five, six subs in the game on Sunday, so important.
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And somebody that missed Wednesday night, Richarlison, he was suspended.
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His goal at Liverpool felt like a really significant moment to end the run of bad results.
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How motivated and fired up do you think he is for this game?
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For sure, not just about him, but they need this kind of performance.
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after a long period of problems.
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So what is the key now?
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To not think that this kind of mentality we put on the pitch will be done by themselves.
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So reconfirmation.
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is always key in sports,
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so from the first minute,
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going the same way,
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same mentality,
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then all the things,
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tactics and techniques come after this.
