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00:00Pep, five defeats in a row as I'm sure you know. One, can you explain it? Two, have you
00:06got any answers how you pull your team out of this slump?
00:11Well when you lose, good evening, good night, good evening, when you lose 0-4 there's nothing
00:16to say, it's congratulations to Tottenham. We struggled a little bit to get back the
00:28balls in these uncertain balls, we are not able to win it, to give an extra action afterwards.
00:34But I think in terms of balls we were quite decent, we created a lot, I would say with
00:39Tottenham it's no use much and we created chances a lot in front of the keeper. We are
00:43a bit fragile right now, that is obvious for the fact that we struggled today to score
00:48goals and after when they arrived they scored. We are playing a little bit in our thoughts
00:54with a little bit of negativity but it's normal. Football is a sense of mood and when
01:00you win a lot and discontinuity doesn't give us the self-aware that you can do it and when
01:06you lose three games in a row in the Premier League and that situation is always a little
01:10bit there. But many things are going to happen, we have to break the results as much as possible
01:15because the victories help us a lot to be more positive and more confident and we have
01:19to do it. But at the same time, after eight years here, I knew in the last one or two
01:27or three years that sooner or later we will drop. Of course, never expect to win, to lose
01:31three Premier Leagues in a row but in those times always we expected to drop it but we
01:37are inconsistent again and again and again and now we cannot deny the reality that sometimes
01:42in football, sometimes in life, it's here. So we are not used to losing so many games
01:47in a row. That's happened. That doesn't mean it's going to change. We have to do everything
01:50to change, especially in the next one. But the exceptionality of living eight years is
01:56not eternal. So sometimes it happens, sometimes you drop a little bit. It's happened right
02:01now but in terms of way, we played really good in the first minutes and after the first
02:05chance they had for 30 minutes we conceded a goal and the chances were there, were there,
02:10were there. But after, when they arrived, we conceded. Of course, the transition from
02:14a sport, the physicality is really strong. We know it. That's why we thought to bring
02:19a game for the physical condition that we have for many players, for a lot of midfield
02:23players, long control, a lot of control. We cannot make up and downs because they are
02:28stronger than us. We want to control the game. At the end, I would say it's what we have
02:32done many, many years here. It's my way that I like the way to play but now you have the
02:38period. We cannot run away. We have to face it and try to break the next game.
02:43Pep, I'm surprised you used the word fragile because you couldn't have achieved what you've
02:48achieved if the players did not have a lot of resilience. Why are they fragile?
02:54No, the fragile, the fact that they have little, little, little situations that we are not
03:00strong enough due to the injuries that we had. That is the reason why. So, John feels
03:06good but 45 minutes has to leave and I give credit to Tottenham. Fragile, we were a team
03:11that always consisted. We conceded a few chances and now lately we conceded more than
03:15usual. In our game there was a lot of control because it's not a team created to make a
03:20box-to-box 40 times in a game. We are not based for that. We are not good at that. But
03:26always we were a team that conceded a few. Sometimes we lose games but I said we conceded
03:30one or two times but now we conceded more and it's for many reasons. I would like to
03:34tell you it's just one reason. There are many few details for all the season that it happened
03:39and you have to fix it. With the time the players will come back better, better, better
03:43and we will do it.
03:45Pep, you say you didn't expect this to go on forever. Do you think this current group
03:50of players has what it takes to reach those heights again, to be champions again, to be
03:55champions this season?
03:57I would say when you lose three Premier Leagues in a row the most, I would say, wrong thing
04:03to say is we are going to be champions. I know that guys, I know they will be back.
04:08If you expect for that situation what they have done to all of us, me first and the other
04:13one, I'm going to doubt about them because there is something wrong about me. So I'm
04:18there. I'm sorry. Maybe I will not be used to do it. Maybe I will not be good enough
04:23to get back in that situation. After we will see.
04:30I've been a football player for my career now there so of course it's exceptional what
04:35we have done in the past but to lose three Premier Leagues in a row with the situations
04:39that happen with the team can happen. It happened to me as a football player in Barcelona. I
04:45think I lost three Premier Leagues, three games in La Liga so it's happened. Now everything
04:51is a little bit against because when you feel confident and the other one and the results
04:56are good it happens. But now it's the opposite and that's why I had to break it quick and
05:02accept it. The best way to go through in that position is to accept the reality. So
05:07we were never able to lose so many games in a row and now it happened because something
05:12had to fix it. It's not fair. Now it's you, it's you, it's you, it's me, that, the other
05:16one or maybe the weather or maybe I don't know the grass. It's not about that. So at
05:22the same time when I said how difficult it is to have done, now you realise how difficult
05:26it was. But the reality is here. We have to do it. Guys, we have to break, start to win
05:30games. I don't know when, tomorrow and one because people say no, no, you cannot be worse.
05:34Yeah, you can be worse. You cannot get worse. Yeah, it can happen. I don't know. But at
05:39the same time when you said to me no, when you win ten or eleven or twelve or thirteen
05:43games in a row to win and you are going to win before the game, I don't know. So that's
05:46why I don't know what happened. So now it's relax, recover, not relax because of course
05:51always when you lose games it's worse but on Tuesday you have to be here again. So and
05:56hopefully we are going to change the dynamic.
06:00Hi Pep, how would you describe the players' mood after this defeat? I mean they are such
06:04brilliant players. Are they confused? Are they angry sort of in a positive way?
06:08For the way they play they are angry but sometimes the opponent is good, sometimes we are not
06:12good enough in some departments, sometimes it happens. So I think I was in our success,
06:21I was so, so clever enough to say that what we do or what the players do is always is
06:25A, B, C, it's going to happen. I know from my experience sometimes it happens, oh why
06:30were we able to win a lot of games, a lot of Premier Leagues? So when the other ones
06:34are good too, what would happen? And sometimes you have a bad moment. So and I would say
06:40the mistake is we think too much of what is in the analysis, all the managers try to analyse
06:45what happened, that would be a mistake. And the other mistake, if in eight years going
06:48in that way, change a lot, will be a huge mistake. Because it works, because we didn't
06:54change much. I would say not clever enough after winning four in a row in the Premier
06:58Leagues and the Champions League and being there all the time then, now I'm going to
07:01change because I want to change it for one or two defeats. You have to go to the simple
07:05things, to all our partners that we know, that I think we believe completely and yeah,
07:12step by step the players will be back and try to go back to winning games. And at the
07:19end if it doesn't happen, okay it didn't happen, what can we do? But the only thing
07:24is we have to be, you know? It's more than ever when the situation is wrong, now we have
07:29to be. And hopefully, hopefully, hopefully, because I'm hugely optimistic in my life,
07:37hopefully they can follow me.
07:40Pep were you to lose at Anfield next weekend, that could be an 11 point gap to Liverpool,
07:46would that be too much?
07:48Yeah, in the terms of Liverpool is winning, winning, winning, it's true, yeah.
07:53So that would be the title gone already?
07:56I don't know. But as I said before, it's not thinking about you're going to win or going
08:00to lose, to think to win the next game. I think maybe the expectations are so high but
08:06we are not ready in that situation to think what is going to happen at the end of the
08:09season. At the end if we don't win it's because we don't deserve it and we won it in the past
08:15because we deserve it. So what we have to do now is fair enough, that is the most important
08:21thing. First for the qualification for the Champions League and step by step the players
08:26will be better.