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13:33
That's all for now...
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13:33
How pleased are you with Roofe this season?
Imagine I say no. [laughs].
You have some questions that include the answer. What would we be without players like him?
13:23
What are you expecting from Reading tomorrow night?
If you have a look at the results after every game it’s very hard to say who’s at the top of the table and who’s at the bottom of the table because you would tell that th best are at the top and the worst at the bottom. But when a team at the top plays a team at the bottom there is not much difference.
It means that the teams at the bottom are not very far from the top. The leading teams are not that superior to the teams at the bottom.
When I analyse Reading, they are not a weak team. They have strong players and when I look at the performance it’s not a fragile team.
13:21
Has his attitude been good when he's been out of the starting line-up?
Yes.
I’m going to answer to you in two ways. It’s a yes and I’m honest.
But if it’s not the case I wouldn’t say it publically. But in this case he had a very positive behaviour.
13:20
What level is Samu Saiz at currently?
I think Saiz is the most skilled player in our team and he has skills that few players have. I’m not talking about only our team but I’m talking about football in general. And then you have a trend that is linked to the performance and it’s also linked to the performance of the team-mates. I think he’s a player that we need but we are not used to think about the teams, taking into account 18 starters and not just 11. We only think about 11 players. We always think that being a substitute is not a good thing for the players. It’s a mistake to think like that. Not because I’m telling you this, because what reality tells us and Samu is very useful to our team. Either he plays 20 minutes half an hour or the whole game. I have the obligation to take into account the whole team.
ANd of course it’s hard for each player not to think about his own interests, so you have to find the right balance and draw the right conclusions.
13:15
Is Cooper's knee injury ok?
He’s fine.
13:15
Has it surprised you how close it is?
I already knew that it was going to be a difficult competition but I was not expecting that many teams would be able to fight for the first ranking.
And I also thought it would be easier for some teams to show they had a good level.
13:14
Is the division starting to take shape in terms of who will be there at the end?
I don’t think so.
13:13
Are you ahead of where you thought you'd be at this point in the season?
I’ve been asked this question many times, during different moments of the season.
I’m never sure that the good moments will last and I’m not sure that we won’t be able to overcome our difficult moments. What we can’t manage are the opportunities.
So how many times are we going to play well and when we have our downs and if we think that we will always play well we are ignoring the reality that all the teams go through. Until today all the leading teams have had ups and downs.
The most important thing is how we arrive at the crucial moment, in which condition we are in the crucial moments which will decide the competitions.
When you play the last games of the Championship. When you play the last 15% of the games. When the position that you have in the table before the last 15% of the games allows you to make the definite calls.
13:10
Where do you want to see Leeds improve tomorrow night?
To attack we need a lot of dynamism. To attack we need to make the opponent make mistakes. When we attack well we defend well.
It’s not very frequent that we attack well and then defend bad. So I couldn’t say it’s a sector of the field or a moment during the game.
But it’s more about the play, broadly speaking. The idea is to defend well, attack better and then to attack well and defend away from our box.
SO the secret in this is how we lose the ball. When we lose the ball in a well-intentioned process, usually the game iis variable to us. BUt when we lose the ball because of lack of ideas we don’t play well.
13:07
Have you reviewed Saturday's game following Johnson's 'lucky' comments?
Regarding the opinions that don’t come from my analysis I prefer to be cautious before evaluating them or making any comment on them.
Because maybe the person making this opinion has an argument that I don’t have. I’m aware of the importance of playing with 11 men vs 10 for half an hour. I don’t think this is linked to any luck. What I can tell is the opponent didn’t have any chances to score and we had in our case six to seven chances to score and we scored two goals.
We dominated the game apart from three precise moments. Maybe the player was sent off during one of the three moments where the team played better at the beginning of the second half. And the during minute 25 to 35 we had a dam and also the moment when Liam Cooper was out of the team, we lacked stability. But all these things, the only results of these moments when the opponent playing better, they only got throw-ins to the box and corner.
Even if we were not excellent in these moments we defended the set pieces well.
13:03
More on Pontus - serious or available at the weekend?
At the beginning he was supposed to be available last Saturday and then tomorrow but it was not the case and that’s why I would likely to be cautious before telling you about playing on Saturday.
13:02
Team news - any improvement on Pontus of BPF?
Jansson won’t be available and Bailey can be a starter tomorrow.
13:01
He's here...
Right, let’s see what the Leeds boss has to say...
