hello everyone if we could have some
hands up and i think there's microphones
um so we'll go to chris first the
gentleman here in the red
just there you go perfect we'll go first
and then to sam second okay so chris
uh you can just share your thoughts on
what was a remarkable dramatic game
yeah it was so i'm not surprised about
that when these two teams um
face each other then it's
some drama i would say is guaranteed
both teams uh proper
fighting
units are used to fight for the things
they want to reach and that's why that's
clear but of course the story of the
game is a special one because you
do don't
go very often
that easy tune it up against atletico
after 13 minutes
and
you know a couple of times but it's
still true the human brain is can be
your biggest enemy we misunderstood that
situation completely we
we did
we wanted to control the game in the
wrong way we played in the wrong spaces
and obviously gave two cheap goals away
so um the set piece is a
nice routine which we knew about so we
could have defended it better
and the other goal i think we all agree
i don't think we ever conceded a goal
like this that looked really not good
and then it's 2-2
and in time i think everybody here in
the room and who watched the game
thought okay atletico is now
on the winning side so that will go only
one direction but we thought we are
still here so let's give it a try um and
i told the boys half time it's it's
really positive because we know much
more now than we knew before the game
about them
we just have to use the right spaces and
to play in the right spaces and then
everything will be fine
and
that's what we tried to do but then
obviously the game got even more
dramatic because of
the decisions and the the things that
happened
i heard it now already
a lot of times of course i understand
that um
atletico people or spanish people are
upset or don't like the decisions but i
think the first
our penalty the penalty we conceded is a
clear penalty
um the penalty for atletico in my
understanding is not a penalty but when
he whistles it i was a bit surprised
that they took that they took it back
because i only saw it once and i didn't
think it was a penalty it was
clear what they wanted in that moment
and the red card
you know of course it's unlucky
but i think it's a red card can i change
that for this interface
um that's what you get red cards for so
that's not cool but it happened and
yeah that's the story of the game pretty
much we still had to defend with all we
have because you meet ten men they were
quite
intense to play
um
but
the dirty
three points are very often the most
important and they were dirty tonight of
course it was not our best football but
we got them and that's a big step okay
we have sam there and then i think one
ah then then john and then down here so
put some next
jurgen did you feel sorry yes sir um
that the red card came out of nowhere or
did you think they played on the edge a
little bit for the whole game
and and then additionally could i just
ask you about that quite funny incident
at the end where you're waving at
simeone he's running off down the tunnel
i'm i was intense game i didn't see a
game where it was constantly on the edge
to be honest but the situation with
diego i have to say that's
okay i want to shake his hand he was
running off so i could have just turned
around and you know while i was standing
there and so he i was as emotional as he
was um
and i don't think he did anything wrong
and i
i'm not overly happy with my reaction to
be honest but that's not too bad as well
so um when we see each other next time
we will definitely shake hands
um there was nothing between us
we didn't even speak during the game and
that is that he is emotional i think
that should not be a surprise for
anybody and i am as well
but we were
kind of calm in most of the situations
tonight in a very intense game okay
we've got john murray from the bbc then
the gentleman down here in front of john
and then we'll go to the lady in the
khaki coat and i think that's all the
hands up but john next
year
you know when you talk about how
you need to learn how to play in europe
you know you said that many times before
is this the sort of game that you're
talking about because of
you know quite apart from how good a
team they are
it's about everything else isn't it and
how you cope with that
yeah absolutely you saw
a lot of things so you're right so when
you win these kind of games you can say
that's kind of the experience we made in
the last
46 champions league games we played
together roundabout
um
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but we have quality we have the quality
to finish these situations off the goals
we scored that were really was
brilliantly done so really well played
so there's more cutting inside top
shot not sure was deflected or not
didn't see it back yet um and then
obviously the
the other goal
everybody's nearly in the perfect
position there and uh for for sure nabi
is a nice finish so
dealing with these kind of situations is
that the period we are in is really
intense so and
would i choose exactly the same lineup
again i'm not sure
um
but we had so many things to consider
like who was playing who didn't play
blah blah blah who played where
um i think in the end we had a couple of
too many players on the pitch were
played now for the for their national
teams
all the games last premier league game
and stuff like this so there's no never
only one reason for things that my boys
want always that's what i love most
about them
and if they can't in moments it's most
of the time my fault um and
but tonight we fought through it and um
that's
nice and experience helped a little bit
but not too much tonight
okay sorry we're not gonna get to
everyone we'll go to this gentleman and
then this lady next and then we'll see
no no no english yes yes
no problem in qualification of course
you have been always very sure of
yourself of your team of your players
and so on despite everything do you
think that the same thing happened to
you
tonight
the second team if ever i'm sorry i
don't really understand happened to you
tonight to be confident with
yourself or your players or your team
we are not that confident to be honest
we we know our our struggles we know our
our problems but
we try to ignore them
very often um no but tonight the two
confident teams played against each
other and i'm pretty sure if you would
measure the confidence of diego simone
and mine i'm 100 sure he would win
for the right reasons
um
no tonight was just
a real fight it was not about this team
this game nobody can win
um just because he's the better there's
a better side no chance both teams are
real fighters and you saw that tonight
and in two weeks you will see it again
so it's like it's not a game i'm looking
forward to eating a game i got in two
weeks again they are real a real
difficult team to play
but we will be there and then in our
stadium having um an outstanding perform
um
atmosphere and hopefully we can use that
okay last two questions the journalists
there and then we go to james
in spanish
inclusion
a
you'd ask that because of the thing i
said after the second lag
and the home game yes yeah
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i don't know exactly what possession was
tonight but even with 11 11 i think
atletico let us play
if you saw the same game as i did so why
should i change my mind that's the way
they play that's if i'm not the pope or
football it's not so important what i
say to be honest some things i like in
life some things i don't like that much
i still can respect them and i respect a
lot what they are doing here i couldn't
do it i'm not the same i'm not the same
guy as as diego
so but
his
how long is he 10 years
incredibly successful why should they
play the football i like
i have to play the football they like
and that's all fine okay final question
james pierce and then we're done
alison was out before he said you said
the right things at the right time at
half time to change things what needed
to change for that second half and what
was the thinking behind taking nabbie
off and bringing fabinho on
as long as there's nothing to do with
nabi just had to defend the right side
but that's so it was just we were a bit
too wide um
the gaps were too big so but nobody's
called a goal and stuff like this and i
spoke already to him it's really
important for me that nobody thinks we
play the first half or the second part
of the first half because we've not been
not at all he's in really good shape
but he played three games for
guinea there and the last family game 90
minutes and that's like
so um
how's that 45 minutes i think was
absolutely right
um yeah thank you ali that the opposite
he said i said right things that's the
plan actually um but i don't know
exactly anymore what i said what i
started with first and foremost it's
really it's possible i was really
positive because i think now we know
much more about them than we did before
the game we know exactly where the
spaces are where we have to play we just
have to do it so and we didn't do it and
we showed two situations um look five
players in the back three in midfield
two strikers
more or less not really involved in
defending a little bit but not really
just there for the counter-attack bummer
so it's obvious that next to the three
midfielders their space you can play
there but from there you have to play in
the center again and we just we we had
too many easy passes around the
formation and not
in or through the formation
and it was clear with two two it was i
never expected that they now chase up
that they now start um
chasing us with the ball it was always
clear they were still why should they
change anything they turned the game in
exactly the way they wanted to play from
the beginning just defending in the
right spaces weighing the ball and go
for it and so they didn't change so we
had to go back to what we actually
wanted from the beginning and that's
what we did but you could see the
intensity of the game it's
massively sense that you do all the
things right and and score as many goals
as you can as long as you are
fresh
because later on the game especially in
such an intense game you will not have
the power for it anymore so and that's
why we had just to fight through
um and that's what we did this game will
not go in our so if i have the book of
the best games we ever played it will
not be part of but it's a very important
one the very important games maybe it's
in but not the best game so winning
against atletico i don't think ever
as long as this team is together like
this together with diego will ever be
easy not on one day
and we did it anyway and i'm really
proud of that
thank you everybody thank you thank you
thank you bye
you