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00:00 and it doesn't look good.
00:03 So there's a big concern, but we have to wait for the coming days,
00:06 what is the diagnosis, and then we can tell you more.
00:10 So it looked like a knee injury, and I guess that will be scanned in the coming days?
00:15 Of course, we do everything to get the right diagnosis and see what is the damage.
00:22 How is he?
00:24 He's very sad, very disappointing. We are all, and we feel really with him.
00:32 First of all, it's a personal disaster when it's really bad,
00:39 but let's wait, but also for the team, he's really bad,
00:43 because he definitely brings us a lot.
00:49 Three wins in a row for a second time this season, and you scored 11 goals.
00:56 Do you feel you start to get that bit of consistency you were looking for,
01:00 particularly being more clinical, which you weren't earlier in the season?
01:04 Yeah, but...
01:06 You didn't believe me all.
01:09 No one.
01:11 I have seen all your briefings.
01:15 Hey, hey, hey, but it's not my job, I have to analyse clinical calm.
01:24 So we have now a team, what is in balance, on the pitch, and then we can play better.
01:33 Also, you see the progress is coming, and we bought players in the summer for the future.
01:41 We also make choices to give players who deserved it,
01:47 to give opportunities in the first team, like Garnaccio and Mane.
01:51 But as Mane, in the second game against Madrid, gets a real bad injury,
01:56 then all the plans you have, you have to adapt.
02:01 Hoyland, he had a period, came too late in, young,
02:09 and you see he is progressing.
02:12 When there is a consistent team in his back with routines, they will serve him better.
02:17 Then you see a front-line who is in balance, and I think it's a threat for every opponent.
02:23 Also, you see they enjoy it, to play football.
02:30 They enjoy it to give opponents problems, they want to do it into Cadenas,
02:35 and the picture covered a lot, I think, the three youngsters celebrating together.
02:41 It's not about one player, it's about a team, and that is what I have seen today.
02:47 It looked like a team, 11 defending, 11 attacking, and for me it was enjoyable to watch.
02:54 Sorry, when you say we didn't believe you, how easy is it as a manager to believe?
03:02 Because if results don't go right as managers, you can lose your job,
03:07 but if you know there is something there, you have to convince people at the club.
03:11 How easy is it to believe what you are saying?
03:15 I am not telling you that we are there where we want, but you see the potential.
03:21 You can only work on the potential when a team is available,
03:28 and when certain positions are not available, you have to be creative.
03:33 I think we had times in the season where every time we had to adapt to put an 11 out.
03:42 Now in this moment we don't have, but the injury is coming from Lidija Martinez,
03:48 so I don't hope we go back again in such a process.
03:53 We want to stay away from it, we want to work on the team.
03:58 I know it's not about 11 players, it's about 15 or 16 players,
04:03 so I hope we can keep them all fit.
04:06 I think then we can still achieve a lot in this season,
04:10 because in this Premier League everyone is killing everyone,
04:13 and for us approaches go from final to final.
04:17 This is a very emotional time for the club,
04:19 the communique has asked about the anniversary coming up.
04:22 It's amazing when you see them playing as well as they are,
04:25 but it's three youngsters before them, Neymar and Garnaccio,
04:28 who are at the forefront of the recent football.
04:31 Yeah, of course.
04:33 But as I said, that was our plan before the season,
04:38 because we saw the potential from those players.
04:42 But they need games, they need experience,
04:46 and the only way you can get this is to play in that first team,
04:50 to get the opposition, and then adapt.
04:55 When they have the right attitude, and when they keep doing this together,
04:59 and that attitude to improve every day,
05:04 I'm convinced they can achieve very high levels.
05:08 Last question.
05:10 Can I add?
05:12 But they need the experienced players,
05:15 and the experienced players who have achieved everything,
05:20 to help them, to put them in the right positions,
05:25 and to put them also in the right moments and the right attitude.
05:29 It's the first time this season in the league that the team have won by more than one goal at home,
05:36 and you talked about the attackers, but can I ask you about the defenders?
05:40 Why was it different to Wolves, the team that has been conceding a lot?
05:44 What's changed today, and how do you assess the performance of the defence?
05:48 It's only one game, so don't go and celebrate this too much.
05:54 Right out and out to celebrate it?
05:57 No, I don't think we have reasons in this moment to do it,
06:02 but for today we are pleased with it.
06:06 But you need routines to get consistent performances,
06:12 so you have to make decisions in the split second.
06:17 Every time you have to swap your team,
06:22 you have to swap your centre-half, your back four,
06:25 positioning the right full-back to the left full-back,
06:29 and then swap back again.
06:32 All those adjustments are rules and principles.
06:36 It's about looking at each other, taking the right decisions.
06:40 And the top football is about details.
06:43 When one detail doesn't work, you concede goals,
06:47 and then you're following the facts, and we had that too much this season.
06:51 OK, thank you very much.
06:52 Okay.
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