Fulham boss Marco Silva reacts to their 1-0 defeat to Manchester United after Bruno Fernandes scored a stoppage time winner
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00:00 Hi everyone, first question is here, would you like to start?
00:03 Hi Marco, same story as last season,
00:09 the 18 shots on the goal target,
00:13 most of the match probably couldn't have been better,
00:15 so how do you think chances to take the lead in the end
00:19 considering the last minute goal?
00:23 Afternoon all, really difficult one for us to take definitely,
00:26 defeats are always defeats, as you say the same old story,
00:32 I said yesterday pretty much that we wanted to write different story, we
00:36 wanted to be the better team again, overall looking to the game I think we
00:40 did it, but at the level that you are playing
00:44 at this level we cannot be punished by the way we did, that is
00:48 the thing for us, for me it's not, many people is going to talk about
00:54 unlucky or lucky, for me it's not, to be honest, going for the end of the
00:58 match the way you can see the goal, it's clearly a matter of emotional
01:01 control, we have to be there on the game from the first second until the
01:05 last second, and in one moment that we, in 10 seconds
01:10 we made three, four mistakes for three, four
01:14 different players is difficult to understand and of course
01:19 we win and we lose together, I'm always here in front of them and they know it
01:22 was not a tactical thing, it was much more
01:25 some individual decisions that we have to take in a better way because it was
01:28 easy, no reasons for us to be nervous or in
01:31 panic that moment, and our second half showed that we are
01:35 always in control, we didn't give nothing, almost nothing for many
01:39 90, that is the reality, and in one moment in just 10 seconds that
01:43 was completely emotional control, three, four different players in the
01:47 same moment, making mistakes of course we are
01:50 punished by that, overall during the game, first half 50-50, first half I have to
01:55 say both teams no one really in front foot, Man United started better than us
01:59 but after it started to go in the game, regarding what we plan, within what we
02:04 plan for the game, we adjusted some things half time and of
02:06 course second half we are the better team on the pitch, clearly where you
02:10 created more chances, I believe that because you are in
02:14 danger there is so many times that with better decisions you should have
02:17 created more, but even so I think the chances we did create
02:22 they were enough for us to score, good size from
02:26 Onana that is true as well, but play against Man United and
02:31 created what we have created we should have scored, but
02:34 is what it is, tough one to take, more because the way we, that happened but
02:42 it's the reality, you cannot change now, I already spoke with the players
02:46 all down but it was our fault and we have to look for it like that, it was
02:50 clear our fault we didn't win the game because
02:53 ourselves and we have to look for now and to go for the next one
02:57 any other questions?
03:00 we don't know yet of course it's too soon to
03:10 to give you a statement about it or to say something about it
03:14 really I hope nothing serious, his debut as a starting 11 player this
03:20 season in Premier League and he did a very good game in my opinion
03:24 and a tough game to play and he did well the way he linked, the way he
03:28 hold the ball and we know that if you provide for him in the box
03:31 he's going to score and didn't have many chances but he did
03:34 he did a good game unfortunately in one moment
03:37 he felt the knee let's hope he's not going to be really serious but it's too
03:41 soon.
03:45 We have to look at always to improve that is clear we have to do it
03:56 it's not you know I'm not this type of manager to come here to say okay
04:02 after the game we have to go to look for it or for that
04:05 we know what we need we know what we want to improve how we want to
04:10 improve too but now is not the moment to talk about
04:14 it, January will come after the summer we
04:17 know it will come as well and we have time to talk about it
04:19 right now we have to work to give the confidence and the tools
04:23 and the paths for the players to perform on.
04:26 What did you think of the overall quality of the game?
04:31 First off not good enough I believe for both teams
04:34 okay we were playing against a very good side they were not in the
04:40 best form I know but in any moment of the game they can
04:43 punish you like they should they don't need to play
04:47 really really well to in one moment for a top player like
04:51 Bruno to to punish the opposition the opposition side or another player
04:55 that they can they can use first off I think was too
04:59 tactical to balance really two teams to tie.
05:02 Second off we gave steps forward we tried everything we went for the game to try
05:06 to win the game I think we we did deserve it I think we did
05:10 deserve it if someone has to deserve more to win this football match I
05:13 think was Fulham Football Club clearly in my
05:15 in my opinion and overall was not that amazing game I think both teams they
05:20 they fought much better as second half what we
05:24 we have to do to win I think overall we did it we didn't put it on
05:29 internet that is true and in one moment they punish us.
05:32 Final question Peter.
05:34 Just on your start on that you played by the hand for Aaron, what was the thinking to be quite fast in front of him?
05:40 Yes to give more dynamic to give clear the
05:44 and to be more offensive to try to be more creative
05:47 the main thing was to be more creative we know that
05:50 when you look for the the team sheet you okay this is really
05:55 offensive team to play against Man Utd probably
05:57 most of you you talk about it we knew it but we
06:01 we expected the type of game that we were facing and we
06:05 we wanted to be to be more creative in certain areas of the pitch to use
06:09 Andreas and Alex in that pocket areas that we like to use to make our
06:13 wide triangles too and that's it was the reason behind of course
06:18 and the first minutes of the match we had some problems the way
06:22 Man Utd went direct and after they won some second balls with a player like
06:26 Tommy Knight that is really strong in that type of moments the one
06:29 the way they won some second balls and after that moment they tried to punish
06:32 us we adjusted we addressed that with with
06:35 Alex to be more ready for that second balls to help more João
06:38 after that moment we started to control really well them and we didn't give many
06:42 many to them but the main reason why was in our offensive moment clear to be
06:45 more creative with that two offensive midfielders in front of João
06:49 okay thank you thank you very much
06:52 (laughing)
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