Slot: 'It was important to get a game after two tough weeks of training'
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00:00Boss, we're now two weeks into pre-season.
00:02How important was it for the players to get some match minutes today?
00:06After two weeks of tough training sessions, it's important to play a game as well.
00:11Most important thing is that everybody was fit before the game
00:15and they stayed fit during the game as well.
00:17So it's been a good two weeks.
00:20Unfortunately, the result today was not what we wanted, but they stayed fit.
00:24Many of them got minutes.
00:26Also, a lot of young players got a few minutes, so that was a good thing.
00:32It's still early days, of course, but did you see some of the ideas
00:34you've been working on with the players translate onto the pitch today?
00:39Yes, yes, definitely.
00:42I've seen this a lot during the training sessions, maybe a bit more than today,
00:45but that also had to do with the playing style of the opponent.
00:49Like I said, we controlled the game completely.
00:51We only conceded one shot.
00:53We had some good build-up moments, had some good chances in the first half as well.
00:57Second half, I didn't think we created that much, which is normal
01:00because there were a lot of young players in the team
01:02which didn't play in their own positions sometimes as well.
01:06So we couldn't have more from the boys in the first two weeks.
01:08We worked really hard, tried to implement ideas.
01:11And it's not that we only bring new ideas.
01:13A lot of things that have been done here were really good.
01:16So, yeah, like I said, a bit unlucky to lose one game.
01:22If you only conceded one shot.
01:24And in a match situation too, do you get a bit of a better sense of the areas
01:28that you maybe need to work on more or does that not really come into your thinking?
01:34Yeah, definitely.
01:35Every session or every game gives you new ideas where you have to work on.
01:39But we have to understand as well that still 10 or 11 players
01:44of the ones that played many, many, many minutes last season are not even in the building yet.
01:48So it's good to see that also some young players again today showed some good things.
01:53And the ones we have, the ones we have in terms of that had many minutes last season,
01:59they stayed fit, showed some good things today and especially the last two weeks.
02:04So that's something to take into our USA tour.