I get that you have to protect your players and you take responsibility for saying you have to explain every moment to the players. But surely, as top professionals, who are paid a lot of money, they should know, they should recognise that – isn’t that why they’re here, isn’t that why you pick them, because you trust them to be able to do that in the game? You can’t do everything for them, can you?
“I think it’s… I know, but it’s also, when I say it’s my responsibility, it’s my responsibility to explain the game, and today was not one mistake of one individual, it was the team. The way we see the results of the weekend, we should get inside the pitch with a different excitement, that is my feeling, it doesn’t matter if you are playing well, making good passes, but the feeling. And Old Trafford was there saying we are all here to give a big step-up and I felt that we were not ready again. These five weeks, everyone is praising our evolution, I’m always saying the same things: we are not even near the moment we are supposed to be in this club.”
You seem most frustrated this season when there’s been an opportunity there for the players to take, you think about Brentford, half-time at Forest, when you talked about there being an opportunity there for the players to go and take it, and then missing that opportunity. Is that the feeling you have again tonight, that there was an opportunity there, given the results this weekend as well?
“Also, that is one of the reasons, but I feel afraid of returning of this feeling of last season, that is my biggest concern. So we need to work together, we are going to work together, I’m not going… The players are trying but we need to be better. We have training tomorrow and we are going to prepare the next one.”
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