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Mye interessant fra Marcelo, som vanlig
12:58
Beren Cross
In place at Thorp Arch
My first time back in the hotseat for a month. Very much looking forward to seeing what the head coach has to say today. Arrival imminent.
13:00
JanssonWe think he will be available.
13:01
Ready to playWe think he will be available and ready to play. I take precautions, but we think he will be available. I always take precautions with players who haven’t played in 20 days.
13:02
Why is he so consistent under Bielsa?I saw all the games he played last year, but I don’t see the difference you are talking about. Anyway, I didn’t do anything special. If I said the contrary I would be lying.
13:03
Surprised - he does seem calmerI can talk about his skills. I have seen very few players with this consistency with his weight and height.
I haven’t seen many players that tall and heavy who can have the same response as a full-back. If you are interested in checking what I am saying, in the game against West Bromwich there is a dual with the number 15, he challenges him, it’s where he got injured, that shows what I am talking about.
Watch what he has to say here.
13:04
Ability to play at top level?The only thing which makes me doubt my conclusions is the fact he isn’t playing at the top level. That makes me think maybe my conclusions about him are wrong. When we talk about the highest level we could say Leeds is also a team at the highest level. It’s always convenient to take care of these small details.
13:06
Weekend - closest, fierce derby - can you compare them to Rosario v Newell's?I haven’t experienced a game against Sheffield United so I could not make any comparison. I can say the derby in Rosario is something very special and you can’t compare it to anything.
13:10
Alioski dive - how do you stop diving?You have questions that include the answer. I never accept cheating. Sometimes people think cheating is a smart thing to do. Even if I don’t condemn it, from a personal point of view, I wouldn’t want someone cheating. There is a difference between not rewarding and not condemning. The role of the referee is very difficult. It’s indispensable and very difficult. It’s convenient to help him. Trying to cheat is not helping the referee. We have to be comprehensive to understand him when he makes mistakes and we don’t have to provoke him and lead him to mistakes.
I don’t like to criticise the footballers who cheat because in the formation process there is no personal and intimate sanction of the cheating. I don’t imagine myself at 12 challenging a team-mate because he got a penalty by cheating. When you cheat during a football game you can’t compare it with the morality in the life of human beings and, usually, that’s what we do. I talk too much.
My conclusion: I don’t want to criticise Alioski because I like him a lot.
13:12
Phillips - how difficult for him in defence?Usually the defensive midfielder is the third centre-back in the team. When a defensive midfielder plays as a centre-back he does actions he is used to.
One thing is to take a decision when you know you have three team-mates behind you and another thing to take a decision knowing you only have one player behind you.
You see sometimes the defensive midfielders recover the ball without being sure they can do so. The centre-back doesn’t take these risks.
13:13
Phillips most improved under Bielsa?I’m too much in love with my players so that’s why my opinion is not objective. Before sleeping, when I imagine us playing against Liverpool I always imagine us beating Liverpool.
That’s why the opinion I have of the players is subjective.
13:15
Phillips influence on everything?He is a very settled player and that’s important in modern football. If you look at his game last year he played as an offensive midfielder and then as an eight, then as a four, and now he plays as a centre-back. If I had to do the same process, but backwards, to go from defence to attack, he could play in these different positions with good results.
This tells a lot about him because players usually lose their versatility when they go back. Dallas looks more like a full-back than a winger now, just to give an example.
13:18
Clarke ready to start?You evaluate the players according to the number of obstacles they overcome. If you look at the first part of the second half, Clarke did not have the same level in the second part of the second half. You always ask questions about him. What we can say is he is not impressed by high competition. He has many things to learn yet and he has to look at Hernandez as an example. Hernandez has many details Clarke can learn only by looking at him. What Pablo does, you can’t teach in the game.
Sometimes Pablo goes to a zone on the pitch and because he goes to that zone, he receives the ball and he puts the ball in another zone where the defensive density is lower. Who will remember this action? The fans remember the important things, not those that lead to make important things.
13:21
Expect Blades to be more open and attacking than others?As I’m not very familiar with English football I take many precautions before making an opinion. If I was in a bar having a coffee with friends I would say Sheffield United’s head coach is someone with new ideas and I have seen very few people with these ideas.
Head coaches, we normally look at colleagues to learn from them. and we want to learn new things others aren’t doing because usually when you observe someone, you observe the new things.
The ideas of our next opponent deserve to be studied. I don’t know the history of Sheffield United’s head coach, but what I’m saying can be right.
13:21
What are those new ideas?Draw your own conclusions or ask me the same question after the game.
13:24
Bielsa continued on new stylesWhat I try to do is make the public learn about the new styles of football. When I talk about Pablo my goal is to make the fans value these aspects we usually don’t value. When I’m talking about these features of the opponent I have the same goal.
I saw things in the next opponent I wanted to raise for the fans.
13:25
Latest on the goalkeeping situation - any plans to replace Blackman before January?I can’t answer to this question today because I haven’t thought about it yet.
We still have a month of competition to play. And usually we think about this kind of thing when we get close to the date.
13:28
Peacock-Farrell reactionI wouldn’t think my comments on him, about his level. Usually, as a head coach, we are more responsible when the players have a negative cycle than when they have a positive one.
Usually, the positive cycles are more linked to what the player does. This link with the ups and downs, it has to do with leadership. You see, in the theme parks, these rides which go up and down, you have images that represent very well the feeling of going down. In these games, when you are going down you are catching speed to go up again. This reflects what I think about ups and downs.
There is no vital reality without ups and downs. When you are down you have people who can’t go up and you also have other people who like these games in the attraction parks. When you go down it helps you to go up.
13:28
All over
That’s it for now.
