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Yoga it's so lovely to see you thank you so much for coming in and chatting so talk us through your thoughts after what was quite the game yeah it was an intense one huh so um the best description i have it's like a boxing fight like and i will both if you put out the arms for a second then you get a massive knock and that's what happened to both teams the start of this in the game was better for city with

  This first attack where ali could make a proper save but then around our goal which we scored that was the plan we knew i really think we are we are step further than we were a year or so ago in in possession and um that's what we have to do in these games because it's really difficult they defend really well but it's possible to to give them their some struggles and around our goals we did exactly that i

Would have lost we do it more often um but obviously the intensity was crazy and then so you you need you could see both teams needed kind of a little deep breath and then thought okay and then go again so always when we defended them well like half spaces handle stepped up or diagonal stopped up then they had to play back passes when they didn't when we didn't do that then they were just like a set piece then it chipped the balls behind our line and

That's really difficult to have the right line so without pressure on the ball you can't have a high line but the run of them were really good so i think they were a bit more direct than they usually are um but why not so why not it's allowed and i'm fine with the game and and absolutely the result as well of course so i would have loved to win but um i'm happy that we didn't lose because of The obviously that i think the offside decision was right but really little yeah very very very very um robbie love to know what you said at half time first half was difficult trying to get out your own half at times trying to play out didn't see that at all in the second half did you change anything about that part of the game no no um you are right but it was only moments we had in the first half already good

Moments not how i said not often enough but we showed the boys the goal was called and not because the goal no because of the way we played through their through their formation um and we wanted to do that more often and then obviously defensively we needed it's really tricky to defend them really but i don't think anybody if you saw that often back passes from city or or stuff like this when they couldn't quite get it right in the moments because the Boys put a proper shift in and it's like you have to defend the with the the the wing with the with the wingers and half space eights have to step up constantly these kind of things and then when you feel so you have to be compact until they play this one pass which you have to smell or or or sense a little bit and then you go for it so we had these moment all these moments but the the main thing what we could have done

Better first time but you did second half better was in possession so because um it should not be easy to defend us it wasn't in these moments but now i said we have space for improvement that's um absolutely fine but i really think we are a different animal meanwhile um in in these kind of situations two teams very sort of different in the way you play in your philosophies how how difficult is it to prepare for playing manchester city Not a big preparation is that so difficult it's clear what you have to do the only problem is we talk about human beings oh that's really and you have to stay confident you have to do this and that and again they they they were more direct than in in the past in games so all these balls in behind de bruyne are constantly ready to go in behind using their speed um and you can that only defend if you wait deep but that's not us that's not

Us so and it's you have to be yourself um but of course adapt to what the opponent is doing the vibration is actually a pure choice to be honest um because i for me it's easy i sit in front of a tactical ball and i i can't tell the boys i don't have to do it so that's the best job in the world in these moments but um i'm i'm really happy about the performance anything could have happened here today And i really thought that was the game um we could have expected between these two games and teams and now we have benjika very important and then we meet again but we know more obviously about each other again and let's see what we can make of that it was such an intense game you had to draw you obviously wanted to come here and get a win is it what was the message can you give Us a little insight into the message to your team after the game i mean yeah i told the boys exactly i'm very honest in these situations i'm i'm happy with a lot of things but it feeds a little bit and there was more in for us today yes i would have loved that we did it but it's completely fine because again if we i thought we we gave them more problems than in the past in our possession moments and that's what is is for us the

Next step so this we will obviously i uh we will not leave the premier league though means we just play next year again against them and it's important i i saw a big improvement from my boys in over the last two three years and i'm really pleased about that but this team is not to defend 100 and you know it yourself and when you lose challenges when you miss passes and stuff like this that's Not that you every person shakes it's not that you think oh who cares you might think who cares about the rest of your body thinks oh that was fit anyway so um and then these are that's the situation so we just stay in the game do the right stuff do it again and again and i'm really happy about a lot of things and but i really like that we that we know what we can improve and we Will obviously work on that if it will be enough until next week i don't know or this week and the weekend i don't know but um yeah in the future for sure jurgen you know you have huge fans in the united states of america huge liverpool fans out there as well they will have loved nothing more than to hear you just talk so thank you so much for joining us we'll take that away from You thank you jurgen thank you hi there i'm rebecca lowe studio host for nbc's coverage of the premier league don't forget to hit subscribe to watch highlights all season long and be sure to tune in for premier league mornings every weekend at 7 00 a.m eastern and for even more content head over to peacock where we've got live games original series and a dedicated round-the-clock premier league channel featuring studio shows classic matches

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