• 2 months ago
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00:00It's a cup upset, it's one of those things in a career you'd love to do, whether it be manager, player, fan, they'd love to see what the opportunities are, isn't it?
00:09Yeah, opportunities, and I say cups, you never know how far you can get. You could get all the way to Wembley, who knows?
00:17But likewise, it can be over like that. When you're playing these teams at the top, top level, it's moments of games, regardless how well you play.
00:26It's moments in games where they can just take the game away from you in split seconds if you're not focused, if you lose any sort of concentration.
00:33So, in respect to that, that's why it's such a good test and one that we should all be looking forward to.
00:40Have Arsenal added anything this year to the game as a team?
00:44I've seen a lot less of them this year, obviously, to last year, so a lot, lot less. I've seen a couple of the European games.
00:50I saw a game on Sunday, a game against Bolton, but yeah, I've seen a lot, lot less. A lot of similarities in how they build and what they want to do, and they approach each game different.
01:01We're speaking about us and our game plan for different teams, and they do exactly the same.
01:07You know, how they approach us and our game will be totally different to when they went away to the Etihad, that type of thing.
01:12So, I think that's something, again, that they've been really good at, is to deliver that consistency, is adapting to the opposition they're playing.
01:22And also, they adapt to moments in the game as well. They have a good sense of how to see a game out and how to win a game.
01:29But it's that physicality and mentality that really impresses you about them?
01:32Yeah, massively, yeah. Big, strong, athletic players who can all handle football, but who want to compete as well.
01:39You see them celebrating when they keep doing sheets, when they make the blocks, when they make the tackles.
01:44Borg was out for a throw-in and you'd have Older Guard shouting his players on to go and press high up the pitch.
01:49And those little things all add up and make them a really, really difficult team to play against.
01:56Are you expecting a blend of youth and some big hitters as well?
02:00What, from Arsenal? Oh, 100 per cent they'll be big hitters, 100 per cent.
02:05We've got a team of internationals that's not played over the last few weeks, so yeah, they'll have a strong team out against us.
02:12I know there's some players that he's going to have to try his best to look after, but fortunately, he's got a lot of good backup.