West Ham's David Moyes previews UEFA Europa League last 16 2nd leg vs Freiburg
Freiburg hold a 1-0 lead from the first leg
Freiburg hold a 1-0 lead from the first leg
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00:00 Are they all out there?
00:02 How many days is that?
00:04 I hear you've got a horse.
00:08 Yeah I do. Sorry, it's a jumper but it's actually injured.
00:12 I've heard that before, haven't you?
00:16 Okay, we'll start off now.
00:24 Who wants to kick us off?
00:28 Hi there.
00:30 I just wanted to ask what the team is and if you're going to change it?
00:52 It's going to be a difficult task at home, with the woman going gold now.
00:58 But I guess coming into this game, there's lots of positive things going to happen,
01:02 all your players are doing quite well.
01:04 What are the challenges to you expecting?
01:06 How do you feel about the team's performance?
01:08 It's a big task but we have done it before and hopefully we'll do it again.
01:14 We've played Freiburg a couple of times this season, three times this season now.
01:20 We have to try and get a victory from it.
01:24 We all know the outcome has to be if we can win.
01:27 Whether we win in 90 minutes or over 120 minutes, we have to do it one way or the other.
01:32 I think our focus in every way is only about how we're going to win.
01:37 Putting in a performance that gets us that.
01:39 You say it's a big task.
01:44 I know you're being respectful to your position but you have already beaten them at home
01:48 and you're not that used to coming from behind in European titles.
01:53 No, the biggest memory would be Seville, where we had to come from behind in Seville.
01:58 Against Seville, I should say, at that time they were winners of the competition several times.
02:04 I think that was a real tough task for us.
02:07 It took us 120 minutes to get the job done that night.
02:10 That will always be a big memory of mine in our European period we've been involved in.
02:18 Freiburg are a good, steady Bundesliga team.
02:22 They're competing for Europe again, they have done.
02:25 As I said, we've beaten them a couple of times this season.
02:29 They've beaten us once now.
02:31 This one is the big important one because it gets you through to the next round,
02:35 whoever wins the game.
02:37 Winning is the most important thing for us now and we have to try and do that.
02:40 How important is a big start tomorrow?
02:43 It's always important in football to get a big start.
02:47 The biggest important thing is what ends up in the end.
02:50 We get the result if we can.
02:52 We'll do everything to start the game very well.
02:55 We'll plan to be on the front foot as early as we possibly can be.
03:01 Is there a thought of trying to get Antonio and/or Ings into the team as well as Kudas, Piqueta and Bowen?
03:10 Well, you try and work that out.
03:12 You're the man picking the team, not me.
03:14 Yes, but you're the one who's put the question over, so give me your ideas then to get all them in.
03:19 It's always possible to get a tackle in play.
03:22 It always is, that's right. It just happens that you've got to defend in football as well.
03:26 It is always the case.
03:28 The crowd have been really good to you and the team in the European matches,
03:33 the last season and the year before.
03:35 The crowd have been brilliant in the European games especially.
03:38 Again, what I mentioned there, Seville stands out.
03:42 Maybe that's when they started the journey.
03:44 It was our first season in it and we were actually drawn against some really big opposition,
03:49 with Lyon and Seville for example.
03:52 I think we'll need the crowd to play a big, big part.
03:56 Obviously, we've got a slightly difficult kick-off time,
04:00 or a strange kick-off time for a football club in London to be starting.
04:05 So we've got to hope that you get through all the rush hour.
04:08 Flexible working hours allows people to get to the stadium in plenty of time
04:12 and we can get that back in the way so badly we'll need.
04:17 I was going to say that was my last one.
04:19 Generally, I think all of West Ham's home games in Europe over the last two years have been 8 o'clock starts.
04:26 How difficult is it for you to get the team focused on a quarter to six kick-off?
04:31 No, it won't be difficult.
04:33 We'll prepare for the game as we would do any other game, so there's no complaint about that.
04:37 Probably, if we were talking football, we would talk culturally in this country.
04:41 We don't normally kick-off games, but I understand Europe
04:45 and it's probably more to do with TV as well from that point of view.
04:50 But as most people who live around London would tell you,
04:53 it's a very difficult place to get to places around about that time in the evening.
04:58 Good luck to see in the qualifier.
04:59 Thank you.
05:00 David, just on that point, anecdotally, there's a lot of West Ham fans that either can't make it
05:05 or have to take the time off work.
05:07 Sort of recreating that severe atmosphere, is that going to be harder if you're steady with that?
05:12 No, I think if we perform well, we'll get that atmosphere.
05:15 We don't want to focus too much on the other parts of it,
05:19 but certainly we need to give the supporters something to be...
05:23 We did in the second half against Burnley
05:25 and we got a lively response from the players and a lively response from the support as well.
05:30 So we need to give them something which they can get behind.
05:35 But obviously, when it goes down, you need your home support.
05:39 We had a penalty decision which didn't go in our favour in the last kick of the ball.
05:43 I just don't know how much the home support played in that not getting given.
05:48 So we need our support to help us as well.
05:51 Yeah, that sort of thing, does the early game make that harder to get to things?
05:56 Well, I don't know.
05:59 Maybe I could look at it differently and say how kids can get to the game earlier.
06:02 People come to the game.
06:04 I said there's a wee bit more... Years ago in our country, we would have very rarely played...
06:09 No, everybody worked from nine till five and it would have made all these things impossible.
06:13 I think there's a bit more flexi hours, I believe. I might be wrong in saying that.
06:17 So it could be that... No, it might be that it's great kick-off time
06:22 and it might be something which people enjoy because more young people can get to the game.
06:26 But let's be fair, we play quite a lot of games early in Europe.
06:29 Sometimes it's to do with the time difference, sometimes it's not.
06:33 Maybe if we get an early game, sometimes we have to accept that as well.
06:37 Six or seven of your players are still here, I think, or have played in that Seville game.
06:44 How important could that experience be?
06:47 Well, I think that we're gaining good experience in Europe.
06:50 But we've also got probably a team full of international players, if we're being honest.
06:54 Nearly all the players at some time have played international football.
06:57 But I think the games in Europe, I think we're learning more.
07:01 I think we're understanding a bit more how to control it.
07:05 We'll need to do that tomorrow night.
07:07 It's easy to say, put all your attacking players out because that's what you need to do.
07:11 But it happens that we have another opposition to play against
07:15 and make sure that we play the game over 90 minutes and try and win the tie over that period.
07:20 So we'll do everything we possibly can to get through the competition.
07:25 And it's a competition we really want to continue to do well.
07:30 We've had two or three magnificent years in it and we want to keep it going.
07:34 You've gone Danny, obviously, big part of your play over the weekend.
07:39 Does he have a big role to play this season?
07:42 I think we've always planned for Danny to have a big role to play.
07:46 I think Danny probably came into a game which suited.
07:50 We were the team at top, lots of penalty box entries and opportunities
07:56 and who had the tidy finishes and who could finish well.
08:00 Everybody knows Danny Ings is great at that part of the game.
08:04 There have been other games where we've not had as much of the ball, not as much round the box.
08:08 I don't see Danny giving us quite as much as we require there.
08:12 But he's done a great job coming on.
08:15 It's what we hoped. We hoped Danny Ings would get us goals when he comes on or starts.
08:20 But they're probably his first goals for a while.
08:22 He was unlucky not to score more than the one goal he got.
08:27 Just on the capitalists in general, if they're not selected, can they go out there and show that they can do this as well?
08:46 There are two really strong English players who have been in the Round England squad for long periods of time.
08:54 I don't pick the England team but you'll always be judged on your performances and how you play.
08:59 There's no doubt whether you're playing for West Ham or whoever, you have to play well to be selected for England.
09:05 Hopefully there's a chance that they can both be selected.
09:09 Once this is the third successful game, will it be more difficult to meet those expectations?
09:27 Yes and no. I think when you're in Europe you never know. Our first game was against Zagreb away.
09:36 It felt like 'what a game away from home'.
09:39 The way we treated the players, we won away from home in Zagreb which was a huge result.
09:45 Nevertheless, the reason we got a game against Seville was because of how well we had done in the group and how well we had played against those other teams.
09:54 That was our first year in it for a long, long time.
09:59 I think when it got to the group of the last 16 and then the quarter-finals etc, people were excited.
10:08 Before that we nearly had 60,000 at every game in Europe in the first year. It was fantastic.
10:14 We want to keep that up. We're not changing, we're still trying to win it. We want everybody behind us.
10:22 You've spoken before about the three years turning West Ham into a club that from overseas is seen as a bigger club in Europe now.
10:32 Are these the pictures where you need to tell your players to go out and act like it, put their chests out and really show what they're capable of?
10:39 Very much so. If you want to be on the big stage now, now's your chance to put your act on.
10:44 We're on the big stage, show your act. If you can't perform, don't go on stage.
10:52 On Cameron as well, the big part of him coming here was to keep his place in the squad.
10:58 How best Alan Holt was chancing with that?
11:01 Could you hope that having had to take him off at the weekend at that time, he might have settled a bit quicker?
11:07 It wouldn't have mattered who I took off at the weekend. The job was that we had to try and find a way of getting a result and getting back in the game.
11:14 Whatever we'd done at the start, whether it be a bit of a hangover from the game on Thursday or whether it was poor performances generally or lethargic start to the game, whatever you want to call it,
11:25 I could have taken off any one of the players really. We'd started that poorly.
11:30 But we made the changes and unfortunately Calvin was one of the players I chose to take off and see if we could turn it around.
11:38 He just needs to keep his head down, keep working. Things will turn for him, I've got no doubt about that.
11:45 Do you think a call-up would be good for him or would you prefer him to keep his head down maybe at West Ham?
11:50 The call-ups, not my shouting, I can't say whether it would be good or bad for him.
11:55 All I know is that the England manager has got a brilliant squad of players to pick from, probably going to go into this Euros favourites to win the competition.
12:04 So to be in the group of 23 or 24 players, whatever they take, it's a big thing to do that, to be in the best 23 or 24 England players at the moment because there are so many good English players just now.
12:16 Is it too simplistic to say tomorrow he'd be taking the sheet?
12:21 Well, it's not something we've done regularly at the moment. It might be too simplistic to say that but that would be a great step.
12:30 The games were incredibly tight, the game the other night was incredibly tight. We gave away a really sloppy goal on 82 minutes, it was looking as if there wasn't any goals in the game.
12:42 The games have all been tight, the first game was tight, in the group stage the second game was tight, we got a couple of goals up but it was still very tight.
12:52 So I don't expect it to be much different.
12:55 You said last month that the Arsenal game had been so surprised by the defence because there had been a strength in the last couple of years. Have you seen improvements since then?
13:06 Yes, I've seen bits where I'm beginning to think this is better. We've defended a bit better at times. For long periods of the games we've defended better.
13:17 We lost a goal at Everton, we lost a couple of goals against Brentford but I saw better all-round defensive performances.
13:27 I have to say as well my goalkeeper has been playing magnificently well as well so credit to him as well.
13:33 Will you list the penalty takers?
13:37 We'll always be prepared, or be as prepared as we possibly can be but you wouldn't expect it any other way. The level of where football is going now and what people do and the work.
13:48 So it'll be no different for Freiburg I'm sure as well, it'll be the same.
13:53 Thanks everybody.
13:54 Cheers, thank you.
13:56 Bye, thank you.
13:58 Cheers, thank you.
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