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00:29 I liked big parts of the first half already, but you were right,
00:32 the second half was a complete performance, if you want.
00:37 But starting the game was good.
00:41 So for us, and you cannot really explain that,
00:44 but for us, Fulham is a tough place to go.
00:47 I can't even remember if we won here before, to be honest,
00:49 we always struggle here a little bit.
00:51 If we would have won, I'm pretty sure it was rather lucky than convincing,
00:55 but maybe I see that wrong.
00:59 But that was, from my point of view, the best performance we had so far
01:03 against Fulham.
01:06 So, yeah, we won the last game already, nobody felt that really,
01:12 but we won against Bergamo, it didn't help, but it was still a win.
01:16 And I thought there's a good chance we make the next step today,
01:21 and we tried that, and the boys did that, and it was really good.
01:24 We just played a really good football game, created much more chances than we used,
01:28 that's normal by the way, but I could have scored more often.
01:32 Had one or two tricky situations to sort, I think,
01:36 self-created pretty much when we lost the ball in an unnecessary moment.
01:43 I'm really happy with the performance,
01:46 and hopefully nobody got hurt.
01:52 Not that I hurt anything, but that would be great, and then we will see.
01:56 We have to recover quickly because we play on Wednesday again.
01:59 Congratulations, Jürgen.
02:04 The professionalism and maturity of your side to bounce back after the difficult week,
02:08 is that what's going to be the difference in six games?
02:11 Look, I don't question these kinds of things,
02:15 we were before that, obviously didn't gain an awful lot of points in that period,
02:19 but I think it was still one or two, "OK, we should have won games."
02:25 We didn't, that's not great, but we created a lot.
02:28 And we are in the situation we are in because of the character of these boys.
02:32 Nobody expected us to be here, and here we are.
02:35 And that's because of the boys.
02:38 It's the run-in, obvious, there's no interruption anymore,
02:41 no international football, at least not for us.
02:44 Actually, besides Essen with no English team.
02:48 So we all can concentrate on that, and that's what we probably will all do.
02:54 I'm really happy with today, we made these changes because we were 100 per cent convinced we have to.
03:02 It was not a gamble or whatever, we play on Wednesday and then we play on Saturday,
03:07 and on Saturday we are already in London again, which is crazy enough,
03:10 but that's how it is.
03:12 So we need to make these changes before the players give me the obvious sign.
03:18 Sorry, I'm done. And I'm really happy with that.
03:23 Jürgen, is there a better dead-ball exponent than Trent from 25 yards?
03:31 I feel like I've seen that movie quite a lot of times.
03:36 Yeah, not often enough actually, but I would say.
03:41 I think Javi Elliot has actually 10 per cent, 15 per cent of the goal for Javi,
03:53 because we analysed Fulham and saw that the ball was jumping,
03:58 and told Javi to try to go under it.
04:02 They obviously were not really jumping, but only a little bit,
04:05 so Javi could not go through, the crowd was laughing.
04:07 I'm pretty sure, if I watch it back, maybe the ball didn't jump as high as they usually do.
04:15 So, yeah, great free-kick, he has that from time to time,
04:20 obviously wonderful goals.
04:22 Ben Leno asked me after the game, "What kind of goals do you always score against us?"
04:26 Probably means more against me than against him.
04:29 Yeah, that's true, we had a few crazy ones.
04:32 But we needed it, it was a great goal,
04:35 the other goals weren't as good for a long period of time.
04:39 Trent was exceptional, super helpful to have him back.
04:43 Just a follow-up question, did you actually enjoy the title races,
04:50 or did you prefer to kill the league like four years ago?
04:53 [Laughs]
04:56 So we won it once, where we killed the league,
04:59 I enjoyed it a lot, it was just a bit different because there were no Super Bowls in the stadium,
05:03 so I would have loved to have that slightly different.
05:07 Yeah, and all the other titles we lost in the end, so we kept it quite exciting.
05:17 Maybe if we can keep it as exciting, then in the end Fortuna is maybe on our side.
05:24 But we don't know.
05:26 We have to try to win as many games as possible,
05:30 to gain as many points as possible.
05:33 It is an intense season for all of us, everybody needs luck in moments,
05:37 each of the three teams needs that.
05:40 So it will be an interesting race and I'm happy that we are in,
05:43 so that part I enjoy.
05:45 You mentioned Trent, how much is it important to have him back?
05:50 It's super important, but for example,
05:56 one of the shooting stars of the season is Conor Bradley,
05:59 and he played in a few games in football where we all thought, "Wow, what was that?"
06:04 But nobody is like Trent, nobody is like Trent, so that's how it is.
06:09 The way we play with him can be different, so yes, super helpful.
06:14 I'm really happy about that.
06:17 As I said, the squad situation at the moment, hopefully it stays like that,
06:22 is as good as it has been in this season,
06:25 because if you saw our bench today, that was real quality and experience,
06:31 and I loved all the kids who played for us, and Jorrell did today again.
06:36 They did an incredible job and we wouldn't be where we are without them,
06:40 but it's cool to have all the big guns around for once,
06:45 and now we have to...
06:50 Stay gritty, stay really on it, and let's see what we can do.
06:55 Hi, Jürgen. Jorgo is another returning player as well,
06:59 nice to see him back on the scoresheet today.
07:02 Would you say you've missed his finishing priorities?
07:05 Would you say he's one of the better finishers of the club,
07:08 especially in those types of positions?
07:10 Look, the best finisher in this club is obviously Mo Salah,
07:15 with some distance.
07:20 It's super cool to have Jorgo back, he can play all three positions up front.
07:26 It's as important that Cody Gagbo is back, he wasn't injured but was struggling,
07:33 and he's now fully back in three or four games,
07:35 he's physically there and is extremely strong,
07:37 keeps the ball and stuff like that, so that's really helpful as well.
07:40 So, yes, have them all back and can mix it up and bring it on.
07:44 Today, Darbyn and Mo is a crazy situation,
07:48 it didn't work out a little bit because of offside,
07:52 but it looked really dangerous.
07:54 Now let's see how we start the next game,
07:56 but it's really cool to have Jorgo back, not only because of the goal,
08:00 as well because of the performance, it looked really good.
08:04 Lucho played an incredible game on the right wing,
08:07 he was first half especially nearly not to stop.
08:11 Yeah, it all helped.
08:14 And now Endo, a little bit deep in the second half, wow, what a game.
08:19 Very helpful, all of that.
08:21 - Thanks, Jürgen. - Thanks, see you.
08:24 Oh, there we go.
