It seemed like the team struggled to come up against 10 men, why do you think that, and Matheus too [Cunha] Injuries, do you think that had a big impact on how you attacked tonight?
“Yes, when you have many players with different characteristics, especially with Cunha or Ben [Sesko]he has many scoring options, especially against low blocks where there is no space. But that’s just an excuse, we have players in the administration, and we can lose the game but with a different intensity, the understanding of the moment when the other team fights and gets a red card. And I think we don’t understand the game times within 90 minutes. This is my fault, that I need to be better at explaining to the players how to play in all situations of the game. Also, I think they started the game with a different energy and that was really difficult for us. “
I get that you have to protect your players and you take responsibility to say that you have to explain just a moment to the players. But surely, as top professionals, who are paid a lot of money, they should know, they should know why they are here, because you trust them to be able to do that in this game? You can’t do it all, can you?
“I think … I know, but again, when I say it’s my job, and today it was a good performance, and it’s a matter of mine. He’s not ready either. These five weeks, everyone praises the evolution, I always say the same things: we’re not close to where we should be in this club.”
You seem to be very frustrated this season when there is an opportunity for the players to take, you think of Brenford, half of the forest where the players, then they were talking about that opportunity. Did that feeling fade again tonight, that there was a chance there, given the results at the weekend too?
“And, that’s one of the reasons, but I feel afraid to come back from this last feeling, which is something that worries me. We will be able to train, we will need to get better.”
He’s been in charge for a year now and he’s talked a lot about the need to be strong in games all the time. Is the reality that these are the players who can’t move that game for you every game, they just don’t have the skills, or they don’t have it good enough, every three days or three weeks they deliver the work you want?
“We need to find a way, so it’s not that we can’t … I don’t like to say that we can’t be ready for this game, even if we need to be ready for this game, even if we need to get him. So, we need to be successful. There’s a lot to do, and there’s a lot we can do, and we’re going to do it.”
Given the manner in which the Everton player was sent, do you feel ashamed that the fighting team is able to combine and feel like you are injured in this game, to hear this moment and get it?
“First, it was 11 v 11, I felt, from the first minute, you can feel that, so that we will get a goal, so I will feel that. For that. I trust my players when they lose the ball, they fight each other. Now, they will not help themselves, we will help them, and, we will be better in the future, and, today, today, today, today, today, today, we are really frustrated.”
