you defended the today I mean they had
so much possession and so much pressure
but you must have been very proud of the
way this
see yeah we were pleased with overall I
think how we defended I think um we had
to answer a few questions from Wednesday
where you know we pride ourselves on
being organized and giving everything to
every match um and not allowing those
standards to drop but on Wednesday it
was difficult today I think we we did
that and we gave everything to the game
I think the young back three performed
really really well considering their
ages and a lack of
experience um thought they produced some
really good performances individually
and collectively it meant that we were
in the game
and the the only disappointment for me
would be the their goals are probably
the ugliest goal they scored this season
um and uh yeah that's cost us the
game it was Inc performance
did
you yeah I did um because their
technical level was so high you know
we're waiting for
mistakes them to force passes get
frustrated um and they didn't they kept
doing the the right thing the simple
thing um and it meant that our chances
to attack in the game were really
limited I mean you think back to how
many technical mistakes they actually
made very very few to think of and it's
that control that made it very difficult
for us to get a foothold in the game in
any way
um you know even when we tried to to
change things for the last 20 minutes
and um appli pressure it never really
happened is it a bit of a franker
task so
dominant um no I think I think you've
got to try and find a way and
today if we hadn't conceded you don't
know what what would have happened
whether they would have been frustrated
the longer it went on and then would
there have been chances for us now you
got to get your defensive game against
them has got to be very very good
because one slip one mistake one
momentary lap can cost you and that's
where I think we did really well and ARA
wasn't really troubled seriously until
we went one0
down is that as good a performance sorry
is that as good a performance that as
you experienced in the Premier League in
technical perspective in in a different
way yeah possibly um you know we've
played them before where they've blown
us away and some of the goals they've
scored have just been um been very very
good um but today in a different way in
maybe an unspectacular way where people
would
be um
watching that game from their
perspective thinking they have done okay
but nothing nothing to stand out but
they they kept making the right decision
at the right time and I think that
deserves a lot of credit BL blame for
for the go I'm never going to sit here
and say that I think um we have to share
the blame I don't think it should have
got to that point in the first place it
was one of the few times where we
perhaps weren't as aggressive in our
defending from our backline that we
would have wanted um the point I was
trying to make it it wasn't a beautiful
goal and I think with Manchester City
you usually associate
um a different way of scoring and that
will frustrate us because in that moment
we're we're still very much in the
match when Liverpool played it's a very
different performance from Liverpool how
do you match the two of them and who
would you say is the
favorite very difficult to call I
wouldn't like to to say one way or the
other I think they are different
different teams different stars of
play um but both I think the the common
thing between both teams they both have
match winners and they both have uh
players that can win you a game and I
think that's a great thing to have even
though they've got really good quality
players right through their team at the
at the right end of the pitch they've
got those difference
makers yeah it's um it's a difficult one
because we we usually go into the game
with a totally different mindset very
front foot wanting the ball um wanting
to take the game to the opposition I
felt if we did that today
um we would have left ourselves too open
with their quality to be honest so we
did it a different way and I'm I'm
pleased with the effort not so not
necessarily everything about the
performance but the effort was there and
the determination to do um to do
everything to try and get the result was
there and I think that's all we can
ask okay we'll do Monday's outside thank
you for