Silva on Fulham unlucky 1-0 home defeat by Man Utd
26/01/2025
Craven Cottage, London, Uk
26/01/2025
Craven Cottage, London, Uk
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00:00Good evening, everybody. Zidio, when you're ready, you can start us.
00:20Hi, Michael. Clearly, the better team in the first half had the chances to score at least
00:27Manchester United's first shot was on 78 minutes and they scored with that.
00:33Probably a bit harsh, but that's football. How did you see it?
00:36Yes, harsh. I think it was cruel for us. Tonight, the result, as you said,
00:42the first shot on 78 minutes from a match when we were in the first half,
00:49I think clearly the team had more control to start on the front foot.
00:55Our pressure was really good in the first half. As you said, you created enough chances
01:01to score a goal in the first half. We didn't give anything to them.
01:06I don't remember one dangerous moment from them in the first half.
01:11We did press well. We reacted well. We didn't give the chances for some counter-attacks.
01:17You know they are a strong side with Garnaccio and Bruno, who I was trying to provide.
01:23I think we did control that situation and the ball always arrived in a dangerous area from ourselves.
01:31The way you make the ball arrive in the middle between the lines most of the time was good.
01:36We did break their first pressure when they tried.
01:42The reality is that we didn't score. The second half was more balanced, I have to say.
01:46Of course, as you said, they just had that shot.
01:50But even our second half was not as good as the first one. It was a balanced game.
01:54Unfortunately for us, it was a really lucky goal, a deflection.
01:57They scored and that was the reaction from ourselves.
02:01They came really for a low block. They turned players around the box.
02:06They changed some players. Even so, we had a great chance with Anderson from a corner.
02:13Two good chances from Rodrigo to equalise the game, at least.
02:16I think the result is really unfair for us. It's not what we deserve from the game.
02:21But football is like that. The margins play a big part in it.
02:24They were really lucky to win tonight.
02:27Should Martinez have been on the pitch to stall the winner?
02:31Because shortly before, he looked to have got a few of us.
02:34He made a hunch towards Drogba.
02:36I didn't see. I don't know what moment you are talking about.
02:40It's difficult for me to speak about the moment.
02:44If I'm going to start to speak about this, I don't know what you are talking about.
02:49You know that better than me right now.
02:51He's shown up on TV that he might have gone for it.
02:55In the moment of the goal or before?
02:58No, before. Fairly soon before.
03:01I didn't see. Sorry.
03:04James, did you have a question?
03:06You're lacking a little bit in the final third today.
03:09Is that something you need to work on going forward?
03:11Yes, I agree with you.
03:13Because we made the ball arrive in the first half.
03:18Very well in dangerous areas, as you said.
03:21They tried to press us in some moments,
03:24but we were always able to make the ball arrive in Lukic or Emile or Sander.
03:30I think the superiority that we had in that area of the pitch.
03:34I think we did really well.
03:36Of course, it wasn't the best night from us in our attacking line at all.
03:40I think we had some very good moments that we should have taken more from that moment.
03:46And created even more clear chances that moment.
03:49I agree with you, definitely, in terms of third attack.
03:52It was not the best night at all.
03:54How sorry were you?
03:55I have to assess him.
03:57It's difficult for me to say now how long it will be or not.
04:01Let's hope nothing serious.
04:03Because the squad is short in terms of numbers.
04:08In that position, it's even more with the injury of Reece Nelson too.
04:12Let's hope nothing really serious.
04:14Twist his ankle and let's see.
04:17Mark, you had so much success down the left,
04:19particularly in the first half with Rick Robinson and Anna Wojtyk.
04:22Do you think you needed to use a bit more of that?
04:25Because there was a great chance for him and us in there as well.
04:28Yes, and it was a great moment for us.
04:30That chance from him came from a goal kick that we built so, so well that moment.
04:36That is the type of moment that is level.
04:38When you are able to come from your goalkeeper in that way,
04:43within our identity as a team,
04:45be able to arrive the ball inside the box with our striker alone in that moment,
04:50or with Maguire coming late,
04:53we should have taken more.
04:54And that is a moment that you have to punish them.
04:56If you do the thing so, so well,
04:58until the ball arrives there you have to punish them.
05:00And the reality is that most of the times throughout the first half
05:04we had that moment and we didn't.
05:07Okay everybody, thank you.