How were your nerves at the end?
I was praying. There were so many Spurs players in the box. It was a really emotional game. A very tough place to come, an incredible atmosphere and a great team to play against. 3-0 up you're in control of the game, you come in the second half and we’re dominating the game and creating chances, then an individual error happens that clicks something. It puts a wrong message in your brain.
Then we started to deal with the situation better, but they got another one and then it’s game on. Then they have the players and the courage to put a lot of players forward. We had to dig in and suffer and react. I'm very pleased with the way the team has done it.
What your thoughts on Raya's error?
It's part of football. I don't like the sequence of play, I don't like the principles that we apply in that moment and the orientation of the ball. After that it can happen. You misjudge the situation, you try to make the pass and you don't and then you are in the doubt zone and they scored and took advantage of that. Then with the penalty it's another principle which you cannot do.
It's part of football. What I love is that David does that, he picks his hands up, which are quite heavy, and he was sensational for the last 20 or 25 minutes of the game. This is what I love about our players.
Arsene Wenger gave you advice saying that you have to find a way to win. Did we see that at the end there?
Yeah. Maybe he could have given me the advice of trying to not to make it hard for yourself. But at the end you can't just pretend to come here, not suffer and play Spurs off the park. It doesn't happen. You just have to look at their performances against the other top teams to prove that because they're a really good
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