• yesterday
Transcript
00:00Good luck. Thank you. Cheers. How's Ali Makan and Jordan Story, Paul?
00:04Yeah, closer. Jordan, closer than Ali. Ali's, yeah, not...
00:10Ali will still be a while away.
00:13Yeah, it's just frustrating because what's come with these sort of cup runs,
00:16when you think the League Cup and then the FA Cup, and then we had the FA Cup game cancelled,
00:20which has pushed everything back.
00:23Listen, in the short term, we're bothered about this game and being shorter numbers for this game,
00:27but we've got five games in less than two weeks, and when it's that quick a turnaround,
00:32we're missing them for them games as well.
00:33So, that's the problem.
00:34That's just something that comes with the territory, I'm afraid.
00:37And, yeah, they're missing this one, which you'll be gutted about,
00:43but we need them back as quick as possible for these important running games as well.
00:47Is Ousmane Chink on tension for this game?
00:50Yeah, Milly's been back training.
00:52Obviously, he missed his international games as well.
00:56He had a pinjury, we got him to see a surgeon early on in the week.
01:00Things have begun to settle down, which is good, and he's trained the last two days.
01:04Has he responded?
01:05Well, he had until Tuesday, didn't he, and submitted a response to his charge?
01:08Not yet, got an extension, yeah, because he'd been away to see the specialist and things.
01:12When's that until, do you know?
01:14I'll probably get it wrong, so I'm not saying, yeah.
01:17Having played Arsenal and Fulham, can you take anything from that in terms of having a feel of that elite opposition?
01:25Definitely both, yeah.
01:26At the top, when we had to perform, well, listen, it was different.
01:29Those fixtures were different, the occasion was different.
01:32Like I say, that's big, but you feel the level that you're playing against.
01:37I thought Arsenal, first half, for example, against us, blew us away.
01:41We stuck in the game, and then second half, we were actually really, really good and took the game to them.
01:45But then that one moment of brilliance, Havertz gets across, fantastic header, and the game was dead.
01:50So, yeah, they are the margins, so a bit of everything in that.
01:54If you let them play, they'll take the game from you.
01:59We have to try and impose ourselves on them and be brave and capitalise on opportunities that we can create,
02:05as we did in that second half.
02:06But then, any moment, concentration levels dip, slip, they've got great quality which can open you up.
02:13You mentioned their January recruitment.
02:15Have Asensio and Rashford just added another string to the bow, taking them to another level?
02:19Yes, and it has when you watch it.
02:21I'm looking now at... I usually like to be really, really prepared for the teams we play against and know exactly
02:29how we're going to take the ball from them, how we're going to try and build, how we're going to create chances.
02:34One big thing that I know from Bill is, whichever front four he plays, they're fantastic players,
02:41and he's got that much selection, and whichever four he picks is going to totally change how they build from the back,
02:47how they build and attack in the mid-third.
02:50So, yes, we'll have to wait and see until we get the team sheet for that, and almost in our minds,
02:55and be prepared for every eventuality.
02:58But we will not know until we see that team sheet.
03:01Are you quite confident you can't hurt them?
03:03Yes, we've got to be.
03:04Yes, listen, what have we got to lose?
03:07What have we got to lose?
03:09I'd rather go out on our shield than sit back and be bored and have a tame game and try and keep the score down.
03:16We may as well go for it, that's it.
03:18We've got one chance at this, and then you've got to wait until next season.
03:21So, yes, we may as well go for it.
03:23Has your team pretty much picked itself, given how many players are unavailable for the territory?
03:28Yes, picked itself.
03:30You'll probably get it right in the paper this week, won't you?
03:33Would your message to the fans just be, bring as much noise as you can?
03:37100 per cent. I think they are.
03:38I've heard little things that's going off for the atmosphere.
03:40I want everyone to enjoy it.
03:41Like I said, it's great that we're here at this stage in this competition after so long.
03:47The majority of the fans will probably be in the stadium,
03:50won't have seen us at this stage in the FA Cup, which is great.
03:53So let's make the most of it.
03:54Let's make the most of it.
03:55And as I said, hopefully these nights, these days, the big performances at home,
04:02the ones that everyone gets behind and talks about, we've had a few of them this season.
04:06Hopefully we can create that and make it become the norm
04:10and make sure that games at Deepdale are really special.