What were you happy with today from your side and what were you unhappy with?
Honestly, I have to be happy for different reasons and the first that Goodison Park is
not an easy place to come to play against Everton, especially when you had a week very
intensive, I am talking emotionally for my players, not for the club. After we play the
game Thursday and I have to be happy because I started to see some tactical situations
for sure we can improve and we have a lot of space for improvement. In different situations,
tactically, physically but also the mentality.
Today I have seen the heart of my players, the passion, the
will to fight, the will to sacrifice, the will to understand that there was a moment
very, very difficult for us and to see this type of reaction make me more confident for
the future. Sometimes you can teach to our players the tactical aspects and improve your
players' physical aspects but the heart, the passion, the will, the intensity, you have
or not. My players are showing me these aspects and that we are in a good position and it
is a good point to start for me.
Is creativity something you are looking at?
I think if I have to see a negative aspect in this game, I think we made many many mistakes
in the final pass because we had chances. If we made the final pass in the right way,
we could have chances to score. Instead the last pass we made many mistakes.
Lo Celso went in very well and hit a post but for sure I have to know very well the
whole squad and I said to my players that we have to know each other better and for
me they have to give me the possibility to know them very well
and then every single player have to try to make me difficulty because I like to win and
I pick the players that I think can give us the possibility to win.
What was your view on the penalty?
My view is very simple because I cannot understand if the referee don’t go to VAR and don’t
watch what happened but if VAR call you and you go and you watch and you see it is difficult
to make a mistake.
I have seen honestly that Lloris touched the ball before and to make a mistake after you
watch VAR for me it is impossible. Also, I have seen, he took the right decision for
me.
Impressed with defence after conceding goals on Thursday?
I think when you want to become big, when you want to try to be competitive, you must
have a stable team, not ups and downs, ups and downs and today we didn’t concede a
goal and I think that is a good start to improve. On Thursday we scored three goals and we had
chances to improve our score but then we conceded two goals.
I think we must learn to be stable, and there is only one way to be stable, to make offensively
together and defensively together and all the players have to go into this idea and
today I have seen the will to sacrifice to pay attention to the details.