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13:00
That's all from Cooper
We will have the full transcript from everything both Cooper and Bielsa said on the site soon.
12:59
'It's been a breath of fresh air'
It is the biggest game of the season because it is the next one. It has been a breath of fresh air for the club. He’s come in and took this job because he thinks he can take us to the next level and fair play to him. The players are loving it at the moment.
12:54
'It's another game of football'
It’s another game of football. It has its history but it doesn’t affect me.
We know what we need to do - we need to win the personal battles. We can beat anyone in this league.
12:52
Cooper on the striker injuries
Everyone who comes into the team knows their job. You are always going to miss the goals but it is a chance for the others to come in and stamp their authority.
12:51
Cooper accentuates the positives
We know what we have got to do and we know our jobs and we know we will get a positive result.
12:50
Cooper on Millwall
The experience last year will pull the lads through. We are professional enough to get over it and we will play our game.
12:49
Cooper on Bielsa as a manager
We all know where we stand and have a lot of respect. We trust what he is telling us. The style of play is how football should be played - long may it continue.
12:48
Bielsa's regime
We have got really fit. I think if you ask any of the lads - it is the F***est they have ever been.
12:47
Cooper here
“The players are delighted - but we know we are only six games inâ€
12:44
That's all from Bielsa
Bielsa had a lot to get off his chest. Cooper coming next!
12:43
More from Bielsa on injuries
Regarding injuries I would like to make a short comment - the performance of the players is getting worse when you don’t have any activity - when I say official games. So the games for the U23 is a possibility to put players who play less, because if otherwise they won’t be fit to play in the first team. That is why I am trying to explain why Bamford played for U23 and why Blackman and Baker have too. So when they go in the first team they will be fit enough.
When the injury to Bamford happened - we always criticise the decision we take but we have indispensable decisions to make. The injury of Bamford - we didn’t have any doubt about it. When he jumped and then he fell he hurt his knee - I am giving this so you don’t think it is imprudent to give minutes.
Adam Forshaw has not played in the last two months - it will be an obligation to feature in the U23s - if he plays in the first team before it will not be ideal.
12:37
Berardi and Hernandez
Berardi has injured his knee.
Muscular issue for Hernandez - recovered well then in preparation he felt another point in muscle - time for recovery we planned. We will respect the time of recovery.
12:36
Is Millwall the biggest test?
If we look backwards we didn’t have many injured players and we didn’t have injured players in the same positions so I can’t deny the fact that it is difficult. We always talked about the fact we have 18 starters and four players in this group and four youngsters. So now we will see how good was the work we did when we built the team. I told you that for each game you play there are always four players missing - for this coming game it is more than four players but the club has a structure and we came into this structure. We have conditions of work and have an academy that gives us young players so gather all these forces which goal is to resolve this kind of problem mentioned.
We have to accept the fact that we have to find solutions. The opponents also have realities different to ours and problems they have to face. Sometimes they have problems more difficult than ours.
12:32
Bielsa on his manager of the month award
I am thankful and share this award with all the people who allowed me to get this far. The staff, football players and colleagues and fans who support us.
12:29
Bielsa on hostile crowds at games
I have been doing this job for the last 30 years and I have never been affected by the lack of civil from the public or fans. Not because I have a big tolerance - just because I know we can
I am not very familiar with the atmosphere of football at Millwall - I have been spat on, assaulted, thrown bottles to me, never nothing serious happen to me.
The seriousness of any social behaviour I don’t have to judge - what I can say is I don’t have a problem to tolerate it. I don’t want to play the role of the victim in this kind of behaviours.
It would be giving importance and recognition to people giving this tool
We have to admire how the fans love their club and England has been the country who tried to eliminate this kind of violence in football. The hooligans do not exist in English football anymore. The other countries take England as an example.
12:23
Millwall atmosphere
We are clear of the hostility and it is civilised competition. The description of the atmosphere is just an anecdote - I can’t think of any fans who would have more influence than ours.
It is very important for us to receive and we have to prepare for the support the other team will get.
12:21
Hernandez injury
He was well and then got injured again.
I have the intention of not giving an answer as an excuse.
I say that we can solve the absence of Pablo, Bamford and Roofe - I wouldn’t want to ignore what they represent for the team. They have the conviction I am convinced and we have been working with a lot more than 11 players.
The time has come to show the product of the result of what we have done so far. Sometimes when you ask a question it is difficult to tell the truth without going in a position to common sense.
I am worried when I analyse the reality. The people who don’t take into account the reality are people who dare too much. I do not ignore reality but I am always full of hope before the game. Before any game I always have a lot of hope that invades me - I have more expectations for what I can get in the following game than for the resources I can use.
12:16
Bielsa on tactics for Millwall
You evaluate the styles especially when you play against teams that have an opposite style. It is always something new that we have to find a solution to. If we are faithful to our style, especially when the opponents try to neutralise us. So we will see if we will be faithful to our style or make concessions against a rival. We might have three possibilities.
The first is not to take any risk that we have to take to be faithful to our style.
The goal of this is to try to make the mistake provoked by the opponent - this is not the most important thing.
I am not willing to choose this first possibility. The second option is to be faithful to our style and then this allows the rival to make an opposition. I wouldn’t choose this option either because usually the teams who fall into this are described as naive teams and we criticise these kinds of teams. We all know that syles are valid if we can overcome the rival. The content of the style is only safe if we have success and there is a third possibility. This is to be faithful to our style and to our rival - what will happen is one of these possibilities.
The game against Boro was a good scenario to find the answer to the question. Against Boro we had the ball and possession but few chances to score. The opponent had more chances to score than us with a tool that is very easy to implement. And for us it was very difficult to neutralise this tool.
It is difficult to play against these things when there is a difference between the size of players but we did a big effort and prevented Boro from scoring any goal. I think the game against Boro prepared us for this coming game. We have the obligation to improve our performance because before play against Boro we knew what opposition we would face.
Against Millwall it is more important because we know what opposition we will face and also because we have the experience playing this kind of game.
12:09
Bielsa on the difficult Millwall fixture
It will be a game similar to the one we played against Boro. It is a team that doesn’t have the same ranking as Boro but they did things in the past that describe the possibilities. A team that is with the same players for a long time - they has simulated the style and will face similar difficulties against Millwall as the ones we faced against Boro.
12:05
Roberts is the first option
The first option we have is Tyler Roberts and we have also other possibilities.
I am happy that other players are ready to play. Roberts has made many efforts, and played 40 minutes as a number 9 for his international side.
12:03
Bielsa on injuries
First topic - injuries for Leeds:
- Berardi still needs time to come back
- For Bamford a little less than four months.
- For Pablo it will be more than three weeks.
- Roofe won’t be able to play either - he has received a kick that means he is not allowed to play.
We have four players missing but we have solutions to face these problems.
