Frankie really difficult night.
What are your thoughts?
Well beaten obviously
started, alright for
15 minutes or so the game
controlled a bit possession. As you can hear,
we had spoken about, do the counter-attack, which is
obviously a big strength of Tottenham. They play very
compact, the counter-attack of speed with top-quality pliers.
We didn't deal with it. Well enough
simple as that and then two or three and it was horrible for
any team to try and get back into a game because
the momentum is completely gone
individual moments of bad mistakes, bad defending.
And
clear. On that point,
they were two very preventable goals. Those first two weren't
they? Really? Yeah. I've got one more to say than that, you
know, and it's my job to reveal them and go back, but sometimes
you review and you go. All
you don't tell people to leave their area and go bang into
Midfield and leave spaces to run into you don't. So some of
those are just mistakes.
We have to think in the bigger picture and go that there's a
13 games to go for us. I ate those at home and T.
And around us are having difficulties and that's where we're at.
When we have to understand it before I came in and they were
issues, which are becoming more clear to me every day.
But the important thing as I lead it is that the positivity
stays not stupid positivity. There's nothing positive about
tonight really other than probably
and the golden and a couple of performances of credit in terms
of people that didn't give up.
And that should be the bare minimum
and I'll demand and it gives me a lot of food for thought going
forward.
This issue of the away for. I know, it's something that
you've Inherited.
Do you get a sense that there is something of
has a mental side to it by now?
Yeah, right. Has doing it. But there may be, is yeah, there is,
but
there's a football side to it. And if you give away goals
and put yourself to know down in the first 25 minutes or 30
minutes against Tottenham, then
yeah, that mental side will come in very quickly. So
football always starts it and if we're not good enough to
deal with situations, then
then that can happen, no matter how you set up, we can set up
to, you know, piyo strong back for. I haven't got enough
centre-backs to play with. Leah back through in a minute and
I we went to that later in the game, but was makeshift because
we had to try and Shore up
something. I haven't gotten the
two of us and a half, were injured in the first
two games. So we haven't got that. So we have to fly back
for. We want to try and stay compact in Midfield, all
the all the messaging is clear.
But then when you make errors and leave areas,
they're going to score goals
that level of player.
You knew exactly what you were getting into what you were
taking on when you came to Everton, but just how big
a challenge does this feel right now. I've got no problem to
challenge because I didn't know exactly what it was and when
you come in
it becomes very clear. We've had some really good performances.
The general feeling around the club has been very good and we
can't lose that. Now be hard because people will throw some
stuff at us for a one-off game, but in what we're doing at
goodison and the feeling of fans, there has been a big
deal.
So and we'll need that going forward,
but I've been in, I've just been in there were two pliers
and I've had Ida 20 years as a plier and some successful ones
are not. So I had I had a
50 or 100 periods like this for whatever level it is.
Everything's Relative
of all we're not doing as well as we can. What's the reason
why is it? And it's only important then that you stick
together. You work hard, you deal with
the things that are not quite right. You look at us and say
we played against the best team in the country, which everyone
saw. Yes, against Man United last week and made it really
difficult for them. Corrected things should have got a result
at a game
and then we And do that, the vegetable don't like
the up-and-down nature of that. That's what that we need to put
right. Throughout your career in football. You've always had
belief in your ability. Therefore, how confident are
you here? And now that you will get
this team over the line this season. Yeah, I'm confident,
but it doesn't mean anything to say that. Now, confident.
I know that there's a lot in this team. I know we haven't been
here long and the things I didn't walk into the building
with a magic wand and say, I'm going
to actually make this team. That's 11 in full team go and
lumpy and run, them will be mid-table. It's not possible
when you've seen that with managers that change through
the Merely this
year, they take sometimes a bit of time to get the work
together. We've seen it certainly at goodison. We
haven't seen away from home. That's something we have to
tackle,
but I'm absolutely confident that. That's why I'm here.
I wouldn't I wouldn't take on the job because at the time when
coming in it's very clear when I got here that people
the feeling was we could be going down here. It was very clear in
the city and the club
and it was up to me to change that and I felt with change
that tonight as a test of that because of the nature of
the result, but it doesn't, it doesn't give me any fear
about what's coming ahead. I'm actually become White.
The two games have got coming up
at goodison and we can't just because we're good at soon.
He'll be fine because we're really tough matches on on
paper as the Premier League will show
but I'll be ready from and and the players I have to be ready
for them. And and this whole talk about mentality. In
confidence is football,
trying hard prepare for the game Go and show absolute
application.
Stick your foot in when you need to work hard, get
the basics, right?
And we'll be right. We'll be right then Frank appreciate
your time. Thank you. Cheers. Cheers.