00:00What steps do you feel you've taken in the past week with four points from a couple of games just to start turning things around?
00:13No, the first thing you said in your question, four points out of two games are different.
00:18The last two home games we've played, which we've both lost and conceded seven goals.
00:24In the last two games, we were one deflection away from keeping two clean sheets.
00:31I said against West Ham, the good thing for us was that they didn't score their one and only chance.
00:38And the same thing happened again in this game. They did not score the only chance they had.
00:44You're looking at me, but they did score, but that for me was not a chance.
00:48The only chance they had was after 93 minutes when they went one-on-one to the goalkeeper.
00:52So that's a step forward if you compare that to seven goals conceded in two games.
00:58We did not concede a set piece in both games, which is also important.
01:03As a result of that, maybe we got two results.
01:05And I think there are also positives to take from the players we've brought in during the summer
01:12that I see they are getting more and more consistent in their performances.
01:15Florian is maybe the most obvious one, but I see the same with Miloš Kerkic as well.
01:20Alex scored his first goal a game ago.
01:24So, yeah, there are positives to take, but of course still not where we want to be.
01:30Let that be obvious and clear.
01:31But there are also, compared to where we were after the last two losses with 3-0 and 4-1,
01:39there are also things that we've done better.
01:43Probably expected that with Mo being benched two games, you would expect a lot of chat about him.
01:49But I'm going to put it a different way.
01:50The fact that you turned to Mo at half-time against Sunderland.
01:53How much of an indication is that of a return to the starting line-up maybe this weekend,
01:58rather than two consecutive games on the bench being an indication that his game time could become more limited
02:04when he's obviously not away at AFCOT?
02:06No, but I think for every player is in my mind to start a game of football,
02:13because we have so many good players and Mo has been such an exceptional player for us.
02:18So, he's always, I don't know which word he used, but he's always in my mind to either start or to coming.
02:30Can you understand all the chat around him though?
02:33Yeah, of course.
02:35Maybe he even deserves that because he's been so influential for this club and for me
02:42and for his teammates for six or seven years, I think, already.
02:47So, yeah, it's completely normal.
02:49If I don't play players that just came to the club, we're already talking about it.
02:53So, then it's completely normal that people talk about it when he isn't playing.
03:00And the test you face against Leeds, obviously we've seen them cause Manchester City problems.
03:04They've beaten Chelsea in the past week.
03:06What do you make there for and how problematic is it their change of tactics?
03:09Because they seem to have gone 3-5-2 or at times 5-3-2.
03:12Yeah.
03:13Well, yesterday I looked at Leeds-Chelsea and I saw a Liverpool game.
03:20Chelsea conceding a set piece and for the third goal making a big, big, big error where they conceded a goal from.
03:29Very difficult for them because either Leeds went very aggressive to 1v1 or they went to a low block and it was really hard to create chances.
03:39So, yeah, it is not only difficult for us, that playing style.
03:44It's difficult for many teams, including us.
03:47So, yeah, what we expect is what we've seen in the second half against City when they were 2-0 down coming back to 2-2.
03:53Eventually, Foden made the difference with a moment of magic for City.
04:01And against Chelsea they were really strong.
04:04Played a very good game.
04:05Really aggressive.
04:06A lot of long balls as well from their goalkeeper.
04:11So, we know what to expect.
04:13But what to expect is probably what we've faced.
04:17Not all of the games, maybe with the exception of two.
04:20Sure.
04:21Are you expecting it to be quite a physical test in what is probably going to be quite a hostile stadium?
04:30Yeah.
04:31Yeah, we do.
04:32But I think every Premier League game is a physical test.
04:35Especially the way teams play against us.
04:38But not only that, it's also the best athletes in the world playing in the Premier League.
04:46So, yeah, every game you play is a physical test, let alone an away game with, indeed,
04:54as I know and you probably even know better than me, the fans that are a big support for them.
05:00Despite the difficulties you had this season, you're two points off the top four.
05:05I'm just wondering, is that now the main aim in the Premier League?
05:09To make sure you're going to be in that top four?
05:11For me, that tells how good the Premier League is this season.
05:13As it already was last season, but it gets better and better and better every single season.
05:18For obvious reasons, because everybody has so much money.
05:21And that tells you, indeed, how close the margins still are.
05:26But it's definitely our first aim to come back to top four.
05:31Because we're obviously not happy with the position we are in at the moment.
05:37I just wondered how close Federico Chiesa is to maybe starting a few more games for Liverpool.
05:44Looked lively in cameos and made obviously a key contribution in the last game.
05:48Not at the end of the pitch you'd expect though.
05:50Cameo? What is that kind of one?
05:52Sorry, appearances from the bench.
05:55Oh, okay.
05:56I learned something today.
05:59As I just said, every player has a possibility to start.
06:05But we have many options to start in his position, as I said so many times before.
06:13But he's indeed having his impact coming off the bench a few times.
06:17So, normally you bring a striker in to score a goal.
06:22But he, in this situation, kept on running in a moment where a player could also feel,
06:30I don't think I can do a lot anymore because he's going to go 1v1.
06:35So, it tells you also the mentality he has not to concede.
06:40And that's a good thing because that's what not only defenders should have,
06:43that's also what attackers should have.
06:45And where is Florian Wurt's confidence at at the moment?
06:48Obviously, he made a vital contribution to the goal the other night,
06:51but still doesn't have a goal to his name yet.
06:53No.
06:54No, but if you can only have confidence if you score goals, that would be the wrong thing.
07:00I think you can see where his confidence is at.
07:03If you look at the last two games, how many times he wants the ball
07:06and how many times his teammates play him the ball.
07:10And that is something that tells me how much confidence he has at the moment.
07:15But it's also clear that he came back with an injury with Germany.
07:21And so I'm already very happy that he is able to play so many minutes
07:27in his first two games after he came back from an injury.
07:31But he's done well.
07:32Like I said, I wasn't surprised that he was involved in the goal we scored
07:36against the Sunderland because he was one of the players, not the only one,
07:41one of the players who kept constantly trying and was creative.
07:49Can I just check on team news?
07:53Do you expect Conor Bradley to be back and forth?
07:55Did everyone get through the Sunderland game okay?
07:57Yeah, they did.
07:59Joe Gomez got a knock in the West Ham game but was still able to start.
08:07But he couldn't make the full 90 minutes.
08:10But I think he will be able to train again today.
08:12So yesterday was a recovery day for most of them.
08:15Today we will train again and let's see where they are.
08:18But Conor Bradley has trained this week so I expect him to train today and then he is available to be in the squad tomorrow.
08:26Hi Arlene, I wanted to ask you about Cody Gatpo.
08:28I mean think back to last season when he was at his best.
08:32He was in a fierce battle for his base with Luis Diaz.
08:34Even when they lined up together there was a chance that one of the other strikers would come on and Luis Diaz would go out to the left.
08:40I think if you look in Premier League and Champions League last season, Cody played the full 90 only six times.
08:46Whereas already this season he has played 10 times.
08:49We haven't seen a lot of Rio and Gamora in recent weeks in those competitions.
08:52And we haven't seen Hugo Reketike tried off the left as we heard that may well be an option.
08:58Do you think Cody is maybe suffering a little bit from not having that razor-sharp competition for his starting place?
09:04Oh, that's an interesting way of looking at it.
09:07Because you can also look at it in a way if a player plays a lot, this gives him consistency, self-confidence.
09:15Usually if I talk to players that I don't play every single time, it's mostly their answer is yeah, but I need to play every single minute.
09:22That gives me more confidence and I can bring the most out of myself.
09:25And now you say the opposite.
09:27So the reason why I haven't tried Hugo a lot of times off the left is an obvious one.
09:34Because of the Alex and Rizak situation that he's either not been available or not been available to start every single game.
09:44And Rio has had his minutes, but I think for a 17-year-old he's already had much more minutes than any other 17-year-old at any other club in the Premier League.
09:57So that's positive for him and I don't think Cody suffers from the fact that he doesn't have competition because there are players that can play in his position.
10:10And usually, like I just said, players prefer to have a situation where they have the confidence and the understanding that they might play many minutes.
10:23Hi, Arne, this is Valerkinge from the Hungarian Sports Media. I would like to ask you about Dominic.
10:29You said before that he's more of a midfielder than a winger or a right-back, but he plays for roles.
10:38How do you plan to maximize his influence in the central area against this? Will he play in the central area?
10:45In the long term, he will play in the central area. Yeah, that's for sure. Maybe also in the midterm and maybe even tomorrow.
10:52But he is one of the few players that can play in multiple positions.
10:57And unfortunately for us, we've had injuries in certain positions, not one, but then like to both fullbacks are injured for a long time, a long time, for a few weeks already.
11:09And in the start of the season as well. So that's why I used him in different positions and he did well, by the way, in every position he played in.
11:20In the last two games, he's been very important for the team in the role he had, because like I just said, he's part of a team that only conceded, that was only one deflection away from two clean sheets.
11:34And he had a free role of the right, so still he's a lot of times in the middle.
11:39I think if you look at his positioning in the first half compared to the second half against Sunderland, I think a heat map will show that he was nine out of ten times in the same position in the first half as he was in the second half.
11:52In the second half he played as a midfielder and the first half he played as an inverted winger.
11:58So yeah, we can use him in every position, but for the mid and long term, and maybe for the short term, we will use him in the middle.
12:07Alright, thank you.
12:09If we have no injuries, that I have to include to it.
12:12Hi Arne. After scoring his first Premier goal, Alexander Wiesach was a bit of a straight knife for him.
12:18The other nine served and didn't have too many chances. How do you get the best out of them consistently?
12:22How do you get the most chances, especially when teams are playing low and hard to break down?
12:28I think he's not the only one, number nine, that suffers in some games from not getting as many chances.
12:37I watched the second half till now from Leeds against City and I watched the whole game against Chelsea.
12:45And it's not like at this level the number nine is involved in eight, nine, ten chances every single half.
12:52So, but it's obvious and clear to me that we as a team want to bring him more often in threatening situations.
13:02Before we went to only one goal conceded in two games, we had a lot of chances.
13:08The last two games as a result, because we were a little bit more compact and maybe take a little bit less risk.
13:14We haven't been able to create that many chances as we did all the games before.
13:21So, it's definitely one of the things on my list of things to improve is getting our number nine more involved in the game,
13:29let alone more involved in the final first.
13:33He's averaged 14 touches in this past three starts. Is that something that you might, is that ideal for you at the moment?
13:40No, it's not ideal for me, no. But do you know how much he had at Newcastle on average?
13:45Not too sure.
13:4622.
13:4722.
13:48So, in this league, strikers don't touch the ball that much, but the few times they do touch it, it's quite nice if they then finish it off.
13:56I have no clue what the stats of Haaland are, but I wouldn't be surprised.
14:01I have no clue if he maybe doesn't touch it a hundred times a game, but he does score a lot.
14:07So, it's more important for them to touch the ball in the right time than to touch it so many times.
14:13And we have to make sure, because that's the complete difference between Haaland and Alec, that Haaland touches it much more in moments where it matters.
14:23And there we have to improve. That's clear and obvious. We, and he as well.
14:28Just to ask you about Harvey Elliott's situation. He's not featured in the last few months at Aston Villa.
14:35Have you had any contact with him? Has there been any discussions at all about him potentially coming back to the club and that arrangement being kind of shelved?
14:44No, I haven't had contact with him a lot. I think only once or twice, and that was after, before he played Feyenoord away and after he played Feyenoord away.
14:55But that had nothing to do with, that had more to do with that he played against a former club of mine.
15:01So, no, I haven't spoken to him. I am aware of his situation, of course.
15:06I knew how difficult it already was for him over here, so I can, I think I know how he feels at this moment.
15:14But, yeah, you should ask those questions at Villa and not over here when it's about his playing time over there.
15:24Thank you, Paul.
15:25Thank you, Paul.
15:26Bye.
15:27That's super easy.
