Frank on Brentford’s 2-1 Man Utd loss
19/10/2024
Old Trafford Stadium, Manchester, Uk
19/10/2024
Old Trafford Stadium, Manchester, Uk
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00:00Did you miss the chance to maybe be even further ahead by half-time after 45 minutes when you were ready for the better team?
00:26Yeah, I agree with you. We definitely performed a good first half and also felt that we were the better team.
00:36In that half, definitely opposite second half, Man Utd was clearly the better team second half.
00:46Disappointed from my point of view. Happy with the first half of course, but disappointed in the second half that we were not able to do better.
00:53We knew of course they would come out flying and we were way too passive.
01:00To concede a goal after two minutes, that disappointed me.
01:06OK, that can happen in football, it's the Premier League.
01:10Then the scenes, the momentum just changed. They got on top, their confidence grew.
01:18We lacked, if not confidence, then the quality we had in the first half.
01:24Overall in the second half, too many of my players didn't hit their highest level and we need to hit our highest level.
01:30If you want to beat Man Utd, they have a good team, top players.
01:35A lot of their key players stepped up in the second half. All in all, a fair result.
01:40Did you win the toss? If United had changed hands or if you had chosen to change hands?
01:47I'm fairly sure we chose the end.
01:51Did we?
01:52Yes, they chose to kick off and we chose the end.
01:55They chose to kick off so we chose the end.
01:57Yeah, so they won the toss.
02:00Unfortunately, that's why two games in a row we need to train more that coin toss, we lost it.
02:05No, it's the same thing with them.
02:08Yeah, exactly.
02:13You just said that you knew United would come out flying in the second half,
02:17because obviously they were quite angry with the situation around the goal.
02:21No, it's just that 1-0 down, home to Brentford.
02:25They had to come flying out, of course.
02:32What's your opinion on the situation?
02:34I think it's a good referee, if I'm honest.
02:40I always try to look at it from both sides.
02:43If it was Man Utd at the corner and we took out Nathan Collins,
02:47or the ref decided because he was bleeding,
02:50I'm pretty sure they wanted to be able to take the corner.
02:53It's just bad luck, but I think they did the right thing.
02:56Do you think your players are well-drilled to know second-half situation?
02:59Obviously it was a very good score at the goal, it looked like it was against Dalot,
03:02I'm not sure that would have been the match-up.
03:04I haven't seen what was the scenario on the previous corner,
03:09so I'm not 100 per cent sure.
03:12Maybe we would have scored anyway, who knows.
03:17Ten points dropped now from winning positions,
03:20it's becoming a little bit of a theme here.
03:23How disappointed are you with that reaction?
03:26You spoke about it passing us.
03:30I think it's always...
03:37I think three of the games we know,
03:40it's quite a small sample from the season,
03:43but of course we look at that as well.
03:47We played away to Tottenham, City and Man United today.
03:54Of course I hope for more,
03:56I think this was the game where we had the better opportunities.
04:00When did I score the second goal?
04:02Six days ago.
04:07I'm a little bit disappointed we didn't have a better response,
04:10because I think a lot of my players still worked hard,
04:14but we just lacked that little extra character.
04:17I want the ball, get out of tricky situations,
04:20keep the ball a bit more,
04:22and you need that if you want to win here at Old Trafford.
04:27Can you speak about fine edges,
04:29and they're lacking just a little bit of something,
04:32what was said at full-time, as a lesson from this game?
04:36To the players?
04:38I said that we definitely need to play two halves,
04:41and I also said I thought we started way too passive in the second half.
04:46We know we're very good at pressing high and closing down goal kicks,
04:50and we let them play out and just come at us,
04:55and then we were way too passive on the first goal,
04:57and that was just very disappointing.
04:59What did you make of van den Berge's performance?
05:01Obviously he played right back,
05:03and gone out and had a really good game,
05:05and I think you dealt with him fairly well,
05:07but obviously in the second half United came into the game.
05:09Yeah, I think he did well,
05:11van den Berge against Gannaccio,
05:13I think Gannaccio had a good game,
05:15I think he was doing fairly well against him.
05:20Obviously there's a goal scoring around him,
05:23where I think the big thing,
05:25I need to look at it in more detail to be sure,
05:27I'll just look briefly at it,
05:29is that we need to be more aggressive and stop the cross,
05:32because I think it's Casemiro or someone who's doing quite a good run,
05:35that just make him take a step,
05:37and then he was free in the back post.
05:40And the idea to play him from the start was...
05:43Any what, sorry?
05:44To play him from the start instead of, say,
05:46a natural right-back type of step.
05:47Yeah, but he played that the last four games,
05:49three games, four games,
05:50so I think he's done well.
05:53One down here, four.
05:55Anyone else?
05:57Easy.
05:58Thank you very much everybody.