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Herlig å få Saiz i tale
Positiv fyr.
14:42
Has Marcelo made you calmer and more level headed?
Yeah, I feel better because Marcelo made the whole team be more aggressive from a football point of view. We focus on being aggressive and playing football.
Now we trust each other more.
Now it’s very hard for the opponent to have a chance to score. And thanks to all this I feel more safe and I’m less aggressive, apart from the football.
I like the fight with the opponent, the football fight. I’m not afraid of that.
14:42
Beren Cross
All over
That’s it from Saiz. A fascinating talker.
14:40
Is it frustrating how closely you're marked?
I think it’s a normal thing. Because when you play as a No. 10 the rivals are always focused on you.
It’s right that the last year at the beginning of the season, the players didn’t now me I had more freedom.
But this season and the second part of last season, the marker is always on me and I’m surrounded by the opponents. But that’s football?
14:38
Amazing start to the season - better than you expected?
I don’t think it’s just about me. The whole team started well. The team is playing very well. Even the players who are not starters, they are well and well prepared when they have the opportunity to play.
But I was excited about starting this new season but I never thought that we could have a bad start of the season.
14:37
Beren Cross
Happier with the style?
Last season, when we found out we couldn’t make it to the play-offs, it was a moment hard for me. I had less motivation because I couldn’t reach the objective.
It’s a problem I had and it can’t happen again.
14:35
Beren Cross
Bielsa impact?
The pre-season was very hard, but apart from Marcelo, all the staff that came with him, is very demanding and has implements and method. They always focus on details so we become better players.
14:34
Beren Cross
Take time to adjust to English football?
Actually, it was not very hard to settle in England because my family’s with me. Because we play twice a week and what I like is playing football. As I like football and enjoy playing football, playing twice a week, I don’t have time to think about other things.
14:33
Beren Cross
Settled in England?
To tell the truth, I feel I am lucky being in a big, beautiful city. What I said about the fans, I feel love and gratitude towards them.
When you walk down the streets and you see the love of the fans, you feel important.
14:31
Beren Cross
Settled? English better?
My English is pretty poor. I understand English, but I can’t express myself for now.
14:31
Beren Cross
Disciplinary problems - ever consider leaving?
Every year you have good moments and bad moments, but at the end of the day, when you play at Elland Road and you see all the fans supporting you, it gives you the strength to keep working and do better things.
I went to other stadiums, in the Premier League, and with big teams, I saw big stadiums and these big clubs don’t have the fans we have.
14:30
Beren Cross
Saiz receives the ball first - how difficult without Pablo there?
When Pablo plays I am not always the player who receives the first pass because Pablo makes very good movements to receive the first pass. Of course I prefer Pablo plays, so I can have more freedom and won’t have as many opponents marking me.
14:28
Beren Cross
Better with Pablo this season than last?
This year all the players were playing better. We combine better with the team-mates. We have different style of play. We always control the game. We want to be the protagonist in each game. That’s why we combine better between us.
14:27
Beren Cross
How is he playing? Better than last season?
This season I am more collective. I’m less individual than last season. I work more for the team.
I don’t score as many goals as I wish, but I don’t do the individual actions I used to do.
I think I improved on other aspects in comparison with last year.
14:25
Beren Cross
Samuel Saiz up next
Awaiting the playmaker.
14:25
Beren Cross
What convinced Bielsa Lamrani could be a good translator?
I feel safer when I have consideration for people who are with me. The most important thing for me is the human quality of the person.
14:24
Beren Cross
How did they know each other?
Answer in Spanish.
14:23
Has there been to much on Saiz's shoulders in recent weeks?
In our team he’s one of the few players who can give a solution to the team. This is his main skill. And when you ask the player to do the player what he does the best it’s never (?)
You have cycles, seasons, moments, that can affect or improve each player. Saiz is a different player. He’s one of the few players with this feature in the Championship.
14:23
Beren Cross
Rory Smith here - from the New York Times - how Bielsa and Lamrani met?
We met each other when I was working with Marseille.
14:22
Will Pablo's return help Saiz?
Pablo has a positive influence on all the team and Samu is a member of the team. It could happen, or not. They speak the same language, they are form the same country. They both have a strong personality.
14:21
Would it be a blow to Roberts' confidence to drop him?
We have two possibilities for one same position. They can play together, also.
Both can play as strikers or both can play as a No.9 or as a winger.
When you have competition with two players for just one position it makes both players better.
And if you have a player who is becoming weaker because of the competition with someone else, it’s a player who we didn’t chose the right player, because professional players are specialist in completion because they compete with opponents, the difficulties of the game and also with the teammates.
14:19
Opinion on Blackburn Rovers?
It’s an opponent with experience. It’s not easy to play against them.
They have a good balance between their individual skills and their competitiveness.
14:17
Beren Cross
Make Newell's more competitive
When you have things that build the stability of the club, this makes the club more attractive. When the organisation of a club is efficient you’ll have players who want to come to the club and you also have coaches who want to work in the club.
Important to raise the standards across the board. The capital of Newell’s Old Boys is very important. The assets of NOB are important, the people who support the club and the training ground is a very interesting one. We work a lot with young players. It’s just a small gesture towards the club.
14:15
Beren Cross
Newell's Old Boys investment
From the club that formed me I received more from Newell’s Old Boys than what I gave to them. I’m paying a debt than making a gift to Newell’s Old Boys.
The infrastructures of an institution make that the preparation of a team develops well. The teams, according to the quality of the players. Two things are important - the quality of player and preparation they receive. The infrastructures makes them better.
14:13
Beren Cross
What was worked on in the break?
We dedicated a lot of time to the offensive play and inside the offensive play we work a lot on the movements to free ourselves.
When we do these movements we try to work the possibilities to receive the ball behind the opponent.
14:12
Beren Cross
Hernandez's age
We have many tools to evaluate the performances of each player - the physical, the technical and expressions of personality.
When you take all these possibilities into account, the margin of mistake becomes smaller, but we have to admit intuition is important in our job.
14:10
Beren Cross
Selection headaches on recovered players
It’s not very hard to see if a player is in a good shape or not. The thing allows me to take the decision is the level of production of players who fight for a space and then you have many nuances. The experience, the personal history, the variations of the performance, those who are justified. I don’t have only one rule, but at the same time it’s not very difficult to find arguments to make a decision.
What I can tell you is in several circumstances I have made the wrong decision.
14:08
Beren Cross
Jansson - comments - disappointed?
I would have preferred Pontus didn’t say that. Because actually the referee’s a colleague of both teams. On the other hand his task is very difficult. If we understand the task, the role of the referee we will help him.
The role of us on the bench gives us, allows us more serenity than the players on the pitch. If Pontus had time to think about it, he would have said the same thing.
I understand the players, when they make many efforts, and they think their treatment is not fair. This is an opinion of a 63-year-old man outside the pitch.
14:06
Beren Cross
Alioski at left-back?
So far he has given us good response as a winger. To put him in a position should be a necessity for us (?) It’s either because of the result of the game or for the features of the players who play for the opponents.
14:05
Beren Cross
Jansson?
We’ll see what happens.
14:04
Beren Cross
Harrison?
Muscular injury. It’s not serious injury because he will be back next week, but this will prevent him from playing the next two matches.
14:04
Beren Cross
Pleased to have them back?
Well, actually we have some players who will miss the game. Douglas, Harrison, Ayling. We always have an average of four or five players missing, but it’s important these three we mentioned came back.
14:03
Beren Cross
Injuries
Roofe, Pablo, Berardi, these three players are fit.
14:02
Beren Cross
International break - achievements?
We had a group of players who needed to get some rest. Another group needed the opposite thing, which pace and tempo.
The third group were the international players and we have them back now.
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