Did you believe at half-time that your side could turn things around, given some of the setbacks this squad has had?“I felt that because, again, I had the feeling – if you see the last plays of the [first] half they were struggling so much to take the ball out of the box and you can feel it in the way they move that they were getting tired. We talk about that, our pace and intensity. We cannot play like that in the Premier League. So we increased that. I had a feeling, we had the feeling, that if we scored one goal, this is going to change completely. I also really liked the way we controlled the game, with the ball, winning the game. We were in front, but we were not afraid of trying to score the next one and to control the ball in their half.”
How do you explain that lack of intensity in the first half? “Sometimes, it’s a lot of things.The pace of the ball can be better. We need to understand that. All these small details, I think we improved. And when you have one or two plays, the rhythm flows better and you increase everything mentally and physically.”
We’ve seen more set-piece goals, it is something that we have actually seen quite a lot of in the past few weeks, are you putting more focus on that recently? “We have more time to work. We work a lot and we are learning a lot. In England, I think you are used to seeing that. When you are in the Premier League, you learn a lot from the other teams, and how to do it. We are stealing a lot of things to score!”
