Molineux Stadium, Wolverhampton, UK.
24/10/24
24/10/24
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00:00How big does that win feel?
00:04Well, it's not the last fixture of the season.
00:07So, but of course it's important winning that way.
00:09We are not used to
00:11match like other teams.
00:12I have the talent.
00:13We are not winning games in the last minutes.
00:15And today what happened, the sense of all the flavor of
00:18winning this way is so nice.
00:20And impact for the players come from the bench and the
00:24patience.
00:25We have to deal that with the teams like defence so deep
00:28and literally 11 players in penalty spot and I said to
00:31the players, please don't judge what the opponents do.
00:34It's belong to us to try to break them.
00:37You play against Tottenham, Tottenham playing different
00:39way.
00:41And it's fine and now Wolves playing away and it's
00:45fine after all. And I feel the feeling that every time
00:48it's getting better knowing that is so difficult because
00:50the spaces don't exist, you know, and that's why it's
00:54difficult.
00:54But that's why we are, we are really pleased with the
00:58victory.
00:59How pleased are you for John Sturns to get the winner?
01:01Did you have any worries that it could have been offside?
01:05Well, the moment the line-up, linesman, you know, rise,
01:11rise the flag, I said, at the first instant, but it's a
01:15corner, can be offside.
01:17And that's a view on the situation, the moment impact,
01:20the moment impact from,
01:22I would say,
01:24from, from John,
01:26Saha is watching perfectly the action.
01:29So it's,
01:31it's well given.
01:33Simon.
01:35Obviously, John had that goal against Arsenal as well.
01:38How important are moments like that to give the team
01:41momentum?
01:43Yeah, of course.
01:43Yeah, you're right.
01:45I forgot Arsenal were winning the last action as well.
01:48Oh, what happened on microphone?
01:50I don't know.
01:50It's lit up guys.
01:51Are you back on now?
01:53Is my problem or?
01:55Now?
01:55Yeah, that's good.
02:00Yeah, it's the second time, it's momentum.
02:02John has this talent.
02:03Yeah, he's a good, good header and, but I'm more big fan,
02:08of course, John, give credit to him, but in the corner,
02:11three kicks belong a lot for the taker.
02:14With delivery, it's not good.
02:16It doesn't matter.
02:17Either John Sturns or not John Sturns.
02:19And the delivery for Phil was magnificent.
02:22So that's why, that's why we did it.
02:25Jack.
02:27How important is it to win these games, particularly today,
02:31a fun game without maybe the team playing quite the best?
02:36Are you just like racking the wins?
02:38I got the feeling, I'm sorry Jack to be disagree with
02:42you, but we played really, really good.
02:45To attack 11, but listen, you cannot press because Sa is
02:48long balls.
02:50We win the duel, it's fine.
02:5111 players to penalty spot.
02:54So breakdown is so difficult.
02:56I would love them when I try to play and go move forward
02:59and whatever.
02:59They use the transitions that Neto last season, Lugo
03:03happened, but Kunye is so fast and long balls with a strike
03:06are always difficult to control them.
03:08And the pace that they have, the physicality for Lemina,
03:10for Joao and from Andre, they're so strong.
03:15And look the ones against Juan Semedo, how aggressive
03:18they were with both wingers at the play.
03:21So they are really, really strong crosses.
03:23Yeah, with Bueno, with Dawson, with Totti, so three players
03:29with Haaland there.
03:30So and two or three players in front of him in two metres
03:33difference.
03:34So the spaces don't exist.
03:37But we were patient, we make a runners, we make a crosses,
03:39we have a lot of chances because of course we don't have
03:41the tallest team to attack crosses.
03:44We have Erling, the tempo from Phil when he plays or the
03:48tempo from Gundo, but no more than that.
03:51So that's why I have the opinion that we make playing
03:53the way they play an excellent, an excellent performance.
03:58You talked about obviously it's difficult to attack a back
04:01five when there's players on the penalty spot.
04:04That's always been the case and you mentioned recently
04:07you started to get a little bit better with that.
04:09Has it been tougher in the last few weeks this season
04:12for some reason?
04:13Because obviously for the last few years you've been able to find that.
04:16No, against Fulham was not, maybe we didn't attack much
04:21better than today, but against Fulham with a lack of energy
04:25to recover the ball, that was not good.
04:28We talk a lot these days about who defines us as a team,
04:32like it doesn't matter what happens, we go to the opponent
04:34and it doesn't matter in which position of the pitcher it is.
04:39And in that terms we were much, much, much better.
04:43But we have to adapt.
04:46So Inter and Milan came and did the same.
04:48So we have to accept it.
04:52So the tippers play four in the back, play against us,
04:54they play five in the back and play there and the whole
04:56team is filmless, no clothes, like a whole hands with the
04:59central defenders.
05:01So what do you need?
05:02Just goal.
05:03Action for winger, good cross, good shoot, in smaller
05:07spaces do it. Without that it's difficult.
05:11Today we were close to draw and at the end we were lucky
05:14to win the game.
05:18Solution is the way we play today.
05:25Yeah, basically stay a lot in the position
05:29that you have to be.
05:30This is really, really important.
05:31Don't become crazy.
05:32Otherwise they make the transitions and after that
05:34they punish you.
05:35We were close with the 2-0.
05:37And be patient and be patient, good action for the wingers
05:40making dribbles and good runners for the people in front
05:44and you have the ability when playing, you have the ball,
05:47dribble in the small spaces, shoot and score a goal.
05:49It's the only way I think.
05:51The other option is, okay, you don't come, I don't come.
05:53We go with Adi and we stay there.
05:55Who decides to come?
05:58That would be so difficult for our spectators.
06:00So imagine Ruben has the ball and say, okay, I don't attack.
06:03Stay there.
06:05What happens?
06:06So I don't know what happens, but it will be a problem.
06:09So, and of course we have to do it and knowing that, okay,
06:13we cannot attack like, okay, attack like in a naive way
06:18because after that the pace that they have, Lucio and Adama
06:20last game against or all the strikers that they have
06:25the pace, so you have to control it.
06:27But the way I believe, because for many years I faced teams
06:30that play in that way, is do what we have done today.
06:33It's the best way.
06:35Michael.
06:36How important is it then in those moments to just reinforce
06:39you've got to stay patient?
06:44Now because we won, it's easy to say, yeah, I had to be
06:46patient. It was a moment that it's inevitable it happened
06:49that when you are 1-1 and you play that you make actions
06:52more, you know, a little bit, I would say not the right
06:58decision and after what happened you defend the decision.
07:00So at the end you have to continue to do it and be the
07:03talent for one player.
07:04Look, Phil went in, came in, you know, Phil arrived there
07:06make three, four runners, incredible passes from Jack
07:10and you know, it's almost, always was almost, almost.
07:12What did we have to do?
07:13Because literally, you know that, you saw it.
07:15It's 11 players inside of the box when we arrived in the
07:17byline, 11 players inside.
07:20It's no space, you know, and after it's yes, free kicks,
07:24corners, individual action like Josco has done again.
07:28So you can break in this kind of way.
07:31But the most important when you are there is try to avoid
07:33as much as possible the runners, the transition for the
07:35opener. You open that good door, better don't play in that
07:38way. It's impossible.
07:39They destroy you for sure, 100%.
07:42So that's why you have to be with the way to avoid to
07:45don't do it.
07:46Last one with Ian, please go ahead.
07:47Pep, I think that's the third time in sort of seven games
07:50you've gone 1-0 down in the opening 10 minutes.
07:53Is that something that concerns you?
07:54Is that just a sort of...
07:55Yeah, I don't, yeah, I understand.
07:57I don't like it, but we started really well.
08:00So we are starting really well.
08:02We were there and I thought first transition make really
08:04good action, good cross and I have to review how we defend
08:07it. But yeah, of course, I don't like it, but I was more
08:10concerned if we should have started as low P or should
08:14have started without the right tone to compete in this
08:16type of games.
08:17And I had the feeling that we didn't have that.
08:20It was completely the opposite and it's football, but that
08:24is mature and I think that it will help us to be better.
08:26So the difficulties always help us to be to be better team.
08:30Thank you guys.
08:31Have a lovely evening.