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00:00Pep, how do you stop that? You've just been through some of the games where your team
00:05has conceded goals, particularly late on. How do you stop that?
00:09We talk about that, but how? So we have to know that there are mistakes in similar areas
00:16and when we are there, so it's difficult to manage. But yeah, it happened many times.
00:24Hi Pep, I know previously you said it's not a psychological thing, that it's just bad
00:30decisions, that's all, with regard to these mistakes, but is it becoming a bit of a vicious
00:34circle, it's almost becoming its own problem, this conceding of late goals, that your players
00:40it's in their heads a little bit, oh no, here we go again?
00:42No, but when you are 1-1 and psychological we'll see, oh we stop to play and we are scary
00:48and the opponent continue to attack and attack and attack and I have to understand, oh, we
00:54are, but in the moment it's 2-1 nothing wrong happen, so we are maybe more closer to create
00:59chances than them and after happen what happen. But it's not about a specific player, so it
01:06would be easy if every player do the same, it's many situations to read what you have
01:11to do, what you have to read in that situation and we are not able to do it.
01:17Do you think the kicking out from the back put you under, in particular from your keeper,
01:23put you under a lot of pressure playing out that way, do you think it could be managed
01:30a bit better at 2-1?
01:34I didn't decide to play long ball, I would kick and score a goal, so maybe we play short
01:40and we lose the ball and say, oh, why you play long ball? So the players take decisions
01:46in the moment, you know that? And sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't work and the
01:49composure that we have to manage the situations, today we are not able, but not now, it's not
01:55now, it's not today, it happened many, many times and yeah, so reflect and think and maybe
02:01in the future it's not going to happen and be brave and courage and go forward for the
02:05next games, so it's where it is, so the previous games, the way we played, we have to manage
02:13and win from big margins, it didn't happen, today was tighter, so I'm quite honest with
02:19myself, so Madrid had chances and played good with the ball, when in the past it didn't
02:23happen, all the time it's ball away and today the association that they have is higher than
02:30in the past and in the moments that we should have that situation, we could not manage it,
02:38but yeah, we arrived in the last minutes with the result and we could not keep it, so that's
02:44the point.
02:45But Pep, just on the late goals as you mentioned, I think it's eight goals you conceded in the
02:51last 16 minutes of your last five Champions League games, can you not be competitive over
02:57the remainder of the season if this carries on?
02:59Of course not.
03:04I've been here for many years and we have been an extraordinary team, I said yesterday
03:09we were an incredible machine every three days, they were huge competitors and these
03:13years we, not because I accept, so the opponent is better, it's better, so, but in the moment
03:21I'm not able, I said months ago I'm not good enough, you know, to give something to the
03:26team, a composer to the team, how to manage this kind of situation, but it happened many
03:31times.
03:32This is the truth.
03:33Pep, Jon Stones has said on the television that you've told the players that they need
03:38to start taking accountability themselves, I just wondered what that looks like to you
03:43and what you want to see from them moving forward?
03:46It belongs to all of us, it's not to the players.
03:49I don't have a problem to accept that it doesn't work like it worked in the past, not
03:57a problem, but it's all of us.
03:59For me it would be easy to say I blame one player, a specific player, or blame whatever,
04:04that is ridiculous, so it doesn't work, it's all of us, me the first, because that's why
04:09I'm here for many years and of course the players as well, so this is the truth and
04:15they want it, yes of course, how they run, how they do it, but the truth is that we are
04:20not stable, stable enough in that moment to do the things that happen, not today, today
04:26is an exception, it happened many times, it happened many times because we are not, but
04:31at the end today is where it is, tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, and we have to continue
04:37to learn and fresh minds, fresh legs and go for them.
04:41What are the good things to keep from this game and to try to use them again in the future,
04:53what is positive from this?
04:54There are many, of course there are many many good things, we know which team we are playing,
04:58there are many good things that we played, but the result is what it is, we are here
05:03for the business, for the results, of course we did many good things, and things can improve
05:09and always I give credit for the opponent when they are the quality that they have,
05:12always I have to give credit for what they do, but of course we are doing many good things,
05:16but there is the question, when you arrive at the end with the result, it's tough, it
05:21could happen many times for the players, it's difficult, I think a lot of them, I think
05:26a lot how they suffer because they do everything, but we are not able to close that, to be solid
05:32in the decision making in certain moments, do it better.
05:36Take some questions in Spanish please guys.
05:39Hi Pep, how are you?
05:44You've just said in English an analysis of your team, but could you analyse Real Madrid,
05:50do you feel after the seventh consecutive game that you've had against them, that Madrid
05:58have been more brave, they've dared more, they've tried to go toe to toe with your team,
06:03to try and play like you guys do, what merit do you give to them?
06:09Carlo will speak about Real Madrid, obviously all the games that we've played, I think that's
06:16the best that they've been.
06:22Today there was a card that was in the stadium, stop crying your heart out for Rodri,
06:34and it's a difficult time that you've gone through, I hope so, we'll try, we'll try.
06:53I don't know, could you give a reflection on the game, did you expect Madrid to play
06:59like this today?
07:00Yes, yes we'd spoken about it, I expected it.
07:04The way that they played at Anfield when they were losing, in previous years when we've
07:10been able to press them with intensity, and occasionally they play like this, but they
07:17come close to the ball with lots of players, and they play with lots of quick passes, and
07:23always with the threat of playing the ball in behind with the fast players that they
07:27have, those four that play up top, and that's why I say, I can't be angry with my team because
07:36we know the team that we're facing, the question is that sometimes when you're playing at this
07:41level and you have that good result so close, and to let it slip out of your hands, it's
07:49more difficult to accept.
07:51Hi Pep, you've mentioned the banner, the message for Vinicius with Rodri, I'd like
08:02to know what you thought when you saw that, I didn't see it, it was huge, but when they
08:09brought that out, I was inside, and I didn't see it, I looked for it, I didn't see it,
08:14it wasn't there anymore when I came out.
08:16How would you analyse Vinicius' performance, perhaps it's motivated him?
08:21He's an extraordinary player, Vinicius.
08:25Hi Pep, I've seen a resonatory tone from you when you're talking about the game, do you
08:35think this level of Manchester City can come back in the second leg?
08:39We'll try, we'll see what happens, we'll see what players come in fresh, but we'll try
08:44to, of course.