Hi Ole, at 2-0 down things going very much against you, what you thinking on
the sidelines because it had been a particularly poor performance to that point, would you agree?
Very, very poor different performance and to be honest
with you, I'm thinking back to Everton of course that team gave up and this team
didn't and that's.. so when we turned it around it's a great answer to get from
the boys, that yeah we did play badly first half we didn't win any challenges
we didn't stick to what we had planned but to be able to shake them fears away
what it look like fears first half, when you're 2-0 down
and don't give up, do you don't expect them to give up but last year we did
this year we don't we didn't, so it's a massive massive difference in that respect
So your overriding is possible?
Now yeah, yeah that's.. even though the big part of this game is very
negative and you disappointed with it but that's football for you and to have
the character to stick in there and turn it round to 3-2 and we could have had
four.. was great and then you're disappointed at the end that you don't hold the lead
You talk about the Everton game a lot of the players there are
still here now how have they changed mentally and what have the new players
contributed with in that respect with the mental...
I think you could see there, you can see you know we bring young players on with Mason and of course
Brandon scores the goal, you got three lads that we've signed
that's made a very very good impact so for me the boys will have learned a
lesson from the seventy-first minutes and 95th or whatever 94th whatever they
scored but the biggest part of it must be the way they've had the
character to stay in the game and turn it around
And Phil Jones got a lot of stick in the first half, you changed him, what was behind that and what do you
think about his performance?
Yeah we've had too changes and we
had to go for it second half, we had to put
another attacker on and I could have changed 11 players at halftime that's..
so simple really apart from the keeper cus David kept us in it.. you wouldn't
and he would have saved in the last one not for a slight deflection on Harry's
thigh as well so, no that was a tactical thing but today wasn't about tactics it
was about the desire that we lacked in the first half and they had in the first
half, challenges you know football is you've got to earn the right to win the
game and we didn't have any right to win a game after 70 minutes
Would you've said that was angriest you were at halftime then? Just saying there you could change them all?
Angry, disappointed I don't know what kind of emotions you
want to say but you had to wake them up you had to do something about it and I
I think they.. the way they've turned it round, the way they.. it changes so much
in people's, a player's head a young players heads, so you remember these boys
are young and when they get the belief after the first goal Dan James first
time it probably went past Stephens and put a great cross in, fantastic finish by
Brandon suddenly you see we're on the front foot we're on the on the up, the
boys trying things that they leave the fear away
And just on Mason, he took his goal very well, he's been threatening that coming off in games, how pleased were you with his impact?
He's a goal scorer I've always said it and I did an
interview this week about number of minutes you need to make an impact and
he definitely made an impact today I thought but the way we've turned this
bad 70 minutes into a positive feeling is good
Hello Ole, can you just talk us through the team
selection, the changing system, why you felt you had to make that change was it
to do with Sheffield United or the players at your disposal? and then obviously your
subs changed the game in a positive way but Axel coming on as well at the end
what was the thinking behind that?
Ah there's different reasons, obviously we're light in midfield because Scotty's away.. we could have
could have started with Jonah in there, this play there for England but we
decided that Sheffield United.. we've played well in a back three this season, Chelsea away
Liverpool at home, we thought that was a good way of.. but it wasn't about
tactics today, it was about the desire first half, getting first to the ball on
the front foot tackling, winning challenges that's sometimes tactics is
just thrown out the window and today it was all about the desire first half
Ole, you're talking about the lack of desire, how worrying for you is that, because they're
playing for Manchester United, they shouldn't be lacking desire to..
They're young, the boys are young and it's not a lack of desire in the the word desire.. it's
maybe.. that confidence in themselves you know Andreas and Fred in midfield
they've never played together before but the way we came out after they scored
the second goal was was excellent so I don't doubt them wanting to win
sometimes young players don't really know how to win challenges like this and
we must have learned a lot today, I'm sure they have
How do you go about changing that from here then?
Play like we did in the 7, 8, 10 minutes when
we scored, just released the fears, play with with belief, confidence, they've
come through the Academy most of these boys and you know when Mason comes on
plays with no fear, Brandon's great goal it's something that you try to teach
them but they.. along the way in the Academy you don't learn these.. you
don't play these games in the Academy, they would have learned a lot by these
90 odd minutes and this all, so there will be some pluses as well