00:01Hi Matthijs, what were your thoughts on this evening's performance?
00:06We are of course disappointed with the result.
00:10It's also a bit shocking at the moment,
00:16because overall the game was not that bad.
00:20But it's a bit the story of the season so far,
00:23that in a situation where it really counts,
00:27we lack in the clinical approach to solve the situations.
00:35Just think about the first one, you know, this is again a no-risk zone,
00:39where we said clear the ball and nothing happens,
00:44and a couple of seconds later you can see the goal out of nothing.
00:49The second one is also frustrating,
00:53as in my point of view we deserve to have a penalty on the other hand,
00:57and then you miss that in a transition then to defend their own box,
01:05which is again for me difficult to accept.
01:11We have clear rules then how to behave in these matters.
01:14And in the third one, again a critical ball loss when you hit possession.
01:20And the position is punishing you on that level, pretty clear.
01:25These are the things we need to learn quickly.
01:27And on the other hand, I think you all saw also the game and the statistics.
01:32We had many, many occasions, many opportunities to score,
01:37big chances as well.
01:39And also in their box we need to be more clinical to get a different result.
01:43When you say shocking there, do you mean the score line?
01:48Did you feel it was closer than that?
01:50Yeah, definitely.
01:53I think we could have scored for sure more goals today.
01:57And when you do the things right, and that's also our approach defensive-wise,
02:02but also when you have the ball and avoid these critical ball losses,
02:07then you don't concede three goals.
02:09So this makes the evening a bit shocking when you look then at the result
02:15and see the whole picture.
02:17So independent of a young team on a young squad that was a bit naive
02:22in these occasions and we need to solve that quickly.
02:28You made the triple change at halftime, bringing on the three substitutes.
02:33Was that because you were unhappy with the first half performance
02:36or were you just trying to get yourself back in the game?
02:38Yeah, we tried and especially not with the players.
02:41It was something to do also with getting offensive power in the game.
02:48With these guys, of course, Will Ossoula was not able to continue.
02:53He twisted his angle in that occasion when he took the shot.
02:58And with the other tools as well, we wanted to have a bit more fresh energy there.
03:06Also with thinking, of course, on Monday's match.
03:15Hi Matthias, how much of that tonight was down to individual mistakes?
03:19Pardon?
03:20How much of that tonight was down to individual mistakes by all players?
03:25Well, what do you think?
03:28Yeah, I do. I thought there was three individual mistakes.
03:32And this is what is shocking.
03:35And this is frustrating as well.
03:38And therefore, probably I also need to scream more.
03:43But that's part of the game.
03:45You need to avoid these mistakes.
03:50Again, be more mature, more clinical in these situations.
03:56Just clearance.
03:57A pure clearance.
04:01And this is a learning process.
04:03But you don't get the time.
04:05And we need to learn fast.
04:07Especially with these young lads.
04:10That's also not anymore an excuse then.
04:12So this is now the procedure and the process we are in at the moment.
04:17But the fighting spirit, also how much chances we created.
04:22I think there was an improvement to see, definitely.
04:25But of course, also the efficiency then in the opponent's box needs to be improved.
04:30That out of these many, many shots, you get clearer chances and also more goals in the end.
04:37Is this the most frustrated you've been after our result?
04:40Because in the end, we played okay.
04:46I think there was overall, if you just see the overall picture and the bigger picture, we did well in
04:54many aspects.
04:55In many phases of the game.
04:58But these little situations, these few situations can kill a game.
05:03And that makes us in general frustrated.
05:06That makes for sure also the fans frustrated.
05:10And we need to avoid it in the future to have better results.
05:18Hi Matthias, you talked about the story of the season.
05:21The goals conceded, particularly away from home.
05:23Is the way you're playing sustainable when players are making the mistakes there?
05:31So, when you just grab the answer from your colleague and the question from your colleague,
05:37then you should know and anticipate already my answer.
05:43If you have an opportunity to clear a ball and concede a few seconds later the goal,
05:51then I would not talk about structure.
05:54And you continued then from your colleague.
05:58Then in the second and the third one, it was somehow the same.
06:02So, we need to just learn out of these aspects.
06:05I think, again, structure-wise, we did well.
06:11We pressed our position high.
06:13We had many ball wins.
06:14We could transfer them even in shots.
06:18This is an improvement we had already.
06:20But we need to be there, again, more efficient to score more goals out of these opportunities.
06:26In terms of Willis Hula, is it too early to tell whether he could make the Monday night game?
06:30Yeah, it's too early at the moment.
06:34We've got Lee and then George, and then we'll move on to one day's preview.
06:37Yeah.
06:37Matthijs, what's your message to...
06:39There was obviously nearly 8,000 fans here tonight, and by the end there wasn't 8,000.
06:45There was significantly less.
06:47What's your message to the fans that left early?
06:51Because they obviously were quite, I'd say, probably disgusted by some aspects of the performance.
07:00Well, I think they were not happy with the result.
07:04And with the three occasions, how we defend when the opposition was scoring.
07:10Overall, I think they saw a team fighting, a team who created many, many occasions to score.
07:19So, I think also they saw the bigger picture.
07:22But, of course, they travel here.
07:25We wanted to give them a nice evening with a great result that we come around further in that competition.
07:34And that was not succeeding.
07:36So, of course, we can understand also their frustration.
07:39And obviously, that was at Crystal Palace.
07:41A lot of people here were very good on Sunday, and then tonight to the other side again.
07:46So, is this going to be something we're going to have to get used to throughout this season, do you
07:51think?
07:52Yeah.
07:53We mentioned the up and downs, right?
07:55But it doesn't need to be that consistently now in that approach with the results at least up and down.
08:03I think if you see the performance, I don't want to see everything bad today.
08:10George?
08:12Hi.
08:13A defeat is a defeat, obviously.
08:15But are you, or how worried are you, how concerned are you that when you lose matches, you're losing them
08:21by conceding quite a lot of goals?
08:24Yeah, that's, first of all, something where we need to work on, that we're not conceding so many goals.
08:32And you were here now in the whole press conference.
08:35I tried to explain that already, that we need to just avoid these individual mistakes.
08:39Especially when there are occasions where the opposition is not that dominant on the pitch.
08:48And today, we couldn't solve that better.
08:51And this is something we need to improve for the next match on Monday.
08:54Do you think there's a softness to your team, or that there's a, you've used the word naivety in individual
09:00errors, but is there a softness to the team?
09:03That's something you need to just, for me, it's something what I just mentioned about being mature in that situation,
09:12be more clinical, solve the situation, and not allowing and give almost a gift for the opposition to score.
09:21It feels like the opposition is not giving us these gifts at the moment, and therefore we need to avoid
09:26that.
09:27And on the other hand, also, when it comes to scoring goals, we need to be more efficient out of
09:33so many occasions today.
09:36How often we entered the box of Everton, there needs to be more than only one goal.
09:43Thank you. We'll take some questions.
