00:20How close were any of the three of them to make it and what are their chances of being back
00:24for the weekend?
00:26They are not far, but it's difficult to tell you right now. Any of the three have trained with the
00:35group and we are taking it day to day.
00:41Probably I think the three of them are not far, I would say, but it's going to be, I don't
00:51know if they are going to be ready for Grenfell, for Villarreal, for Brighton, I don't know.
00:57Obviously, with no Isak and no Gagpo, there's a big focus on the other attackers to step up.
01:02Bradley hasn't yet been able to register a goal or an assist for Liverpool. I think Florian Wurtz has only
01:07got one assist.
01:08Where do you think the two of them are at? Are you worried at all about confidence levels being a
01:12problem?
01:14I think it's true that Cody, Alex and Dom, I think are the top scorers this season or top scorers,
01:22goal assistants, because they've also been the ones playing more in those positions.
01:27Now, we will not have them. We also didn't have them the other day against City and we need other
01:32players to give us those numbers.
01:39We trust the players we have now to play in those positions. I think these things with the injuries in
01:47disguise has been because of the national teams, but will happen to all the teams.
01:52Even to last, I think the other day, they had also one or two injuries during the game and it's
01:57a matter of adapting to the circumstances.
01:59Talking about Bradley and Flo that you asked me, I think they've had good games, bad games this season like
02:07everyone else, but are two players that we know their level and they will give us for sure good performances.
02:16Hi Donny, following on from the last question with Florian and Bradley, they've obviously got big transfer fees, which obviously
02:24they can't help, but there's a lot of talk about it.
02:26How are you, in terms of the man management, dealing with that? Because maybe at Bournemouth you wouldn't have had
02:33players with such high price tags and demands.
02:36At the end, the responsibilities are the same. The other day, if Koeman scores the goal, you know, that he
02:46connects it really well.
02:48He's a one assist for Bradley Barcola. You know, his performance is exactly the same.
02:52But what we will always say, you know, very good. He played really well, an assist. He produced. Sometimes we
03:00are too focused on this, just the numbers.
03:03I was happy with a lot of things the other day with Bradley. He had good situations. We didn't finish
03:13them, but it's him and Flo also are players that I trust 100%.
03:27Hi Donny. Do you think, just on Florian, do you think that given his age we need to be a
03:31bit more patient and do you have the confidence that with a bit more time it will click eventually?
03:37No, at the end, when you are in big clubs like we are,
03:43when you don't have a good performance,
03:45I think the other day probably he didn't have his best game,
03:48but has had good games this season with us.
03:52Everyone starts looking for answers.
03:55I think he had also good performances in the national team.
03:58He scored one goal, and he will have better, worse games,
04:04but I would like to look at this more collectively,
04:07more how they help us play well and get results.
04:14After, I don't care if this one scores, the other one scores.
04:18I think it's more a collective thing, yes.
04:24Any more? Andy? Don't have to.
04:28But, André, you said on Friday about it was with the plays
04:33you got out, being out, it was time for other ones to step up.
04:37Do you feel that, you know, Bradley and Florian did that on Sunday?
04:42They didn't score. If you ask me if they scored,
04:44we didn't score a goal the other day, no.
04:46So they have to do it tomorrow?
04:49Yeah, we'll see, we'll see.
04:50I think it's a matter of us, you know, this is, because we lost at the end,
04:59you know, we are now trying to find the why and this.
05:05I think I like the other team a lot.
05:10I liked it a lot.
05:12Not when we were with 10, I think we didn't play well with 10.
05:15I think you can play, you should play much better when you go to 10.
05:19But before that, I like the spirit, the attitude, the work rate,
05:24a lot of things about the team, including the offensive players,
05:29some of the offensive players, yes.
05:33Just on that point, what do you think when, I know you,
05:36I know you went down to 10 men and you have a player less,
05:39but I think you only made 30 successful passes in the final 30 minutes of the game.
05:44Do you think that's a mental fragility from the squad?
05:49Or what do you put that?
05:51I think we didn't play well with 10.
05:53I think a lot was, because we conceded straight away
05:55before doing even the adjustments, the first change,
05:59and then you go one nil down, and then it's different.
06:02Because then you have to kind of go, and you get caught in between.
06:05You are nil-nil, okay, you can defend more compact, lower,
06:10but when you start losing the game, I think we were caught in between,
06:13because we didn't want just to be there low, one nil,
06:16and then wait, wait, wait, wait.
06:18We wanted to go a little bit, and then you are not really putting the proper pressure,
06:24because they are always with one more very good in keeping the ball,
06:28and then you are also leaving spaces in behind.
06:31For me, the goal we conceded straight away hurts us.
06:36If you are like, okay, we can make the adjustment earlier and say,
06:41okay, we prepare more compact, still with the nil-nil,
06:44you don't have the need to go to press them,
06:46it becomes a lot easier to play this 11 against 10.
06:49But once you concede, then it's not enough just to be compact.
06:54You need to go a little bit more, and then space is open.
06:58And is it in your mind to maybe make some changes tomorrow to the line?
07:05I think tomorrow is a game that we want to win,
07:11and we need to win, and we want to start strong this competition.
07:15We have already the first win, and we want to win the second one,
07:19because it's always difficult to win games in this competition.
07:22But it's true that sometimes because of freshness reasons,
07:26because of some niggles,
07:28I think it's going to be difficult to put exactly the same start in 11 tomorrow.
07:33Do you want a last one?
07:35And only just on that,
07:38Milos was just talking to us before about the challenge of not having,
07:45or the way the schedule is,
07:47it's difficult to train for you at the moment
07:49and build relationships up on the pitch.
07:51How are you managing that yourself in terms of the stuff that you want to sort of integrate
07:57and new relationships between Bradley, Milos, whatever?
08:00It's hard to do it when you're traveling and there's so much recovery.
08:03Yes, you don't have a lot of time to train.
08:06You try to prepare the games now,
08:10a lot of times just with the videos and the tactic boards,
08:12just a little bit outside,
08:15but you have to prioritize the freshness of the players.
08:19And now we are especially, you know,
08:21this first game, we are playing four games in 10 days,
08:23so it's keeping all the legs, all the energy in the games.
08:31But I think, you know, in cases like Bradley especially,
08:36you know, that has been probably the last one to arrive,
08:38is the more he plays,
08:40the more he gets connections with the ones around him,
08:43the better he will become, yes.
08:45Thank you, everyone.
