You spoke yesterday about for each match you compile three key themes or principles, what were the three today?<\/p>\n
“Defensive side of the game, be brave in phase one and two, and set pieces.”<\/p>\n
Did you use the Eze thing as inspiration this week or just not mention it at all?<\/p>\n
“I think that’s very, very easy (to answer) – I never, ever use one word about any player that’s not at our club.”<\/p>\n
I think it was Jurgen Klopp who said there’s no better playmaker in football than an effective press, what do you make of that statement?<\/p>\n
“Yeah, it was good, he was a clever man. I need to text him and say, ‘hey, that’s awfully clever’. I definitely believe in the aggressive press as you saw today, as you saw with my Brentford team, you know, I believe in the high pressure. I believe in if we can be front footed, I like that mentality. I think it’s offensive, you know, it’s a more offensive way of defending and then it’s more fun to defend in the opponent’s half, and of course today I think we were very successful also to score a goal from it.”<\/p>\n
With Sarr in that position does he bring that effective pressing in that central role?<\/p>\n
“Yeah, definitely and you say there’s a few things. It depends from game to game, players in different positions, systems, but today he was very good like the rest of the team. I think it was difficult to pick one player today. I think everyone performed fantastically.”<\/p>\n
For the first goal, you managed to beat the Man City offside trap, and it seemed to cause a lot of uncertainty, putting the ball over the top, is that something that you pinpointed to exploit?<\/p>\n
“Yeah, we talked about the high line, and one thing is to talk about it and try to train it. It’s never that easy. So, to be fair, I think we ran into offside six times before that. So, of course the goal looks very successful and that’s what we look at. Well, there’s a few times where we didn’t do it well enough, but yes, of course, we tried to do it.”<\/p>\n
You were here a couple of years ago with an outstanding performance from your Brentford team, was this performance even better given that you’ve only just started to put your fingerprint on this Spurs side?<\/p>\n
“I think it’s two different teams, two different contexts, but I think that both performances were top and and both performances, when I look back at them, I’ll be very proud of.”<\/p>\n
You referenced earlier that you had quite a lot of questions about the transfer market in the build-up to this game, but is this performance a timely reminder that the success of a season, the success of a team, is not just about what you can do in a transfer market and the players you can bring in?<\/p>\n
“Yeah, I think it’s extremely important that, a couple of things that we understand we have a good group of players, a talented group players, a group of good quality players that I’m very pleased with. So, that’s why we brought in two good players to help. Can we improve it? Perfect. If we can’t, you know, then we have very good players and we just showed that today, so yeah, very happy with that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You spoke yesterday about for each match you compile three key themes or principles, what were the three…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-368809","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115081630375772553","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}