What's the latest team news?
Everyone from last week is fit and available. Coming back. Pedro [Porro] is good, he's trained all week so no problem. Everyone else, including Richy, is still not training with the main group so unavailable.
Are the sluggish starts from the team one of those things or a trend?
I get it, it's kind of interesting when you take a snapshot. But I reckon we've had it all this year: We've scored early, we've scored late. We've conceded early, we've conceded late. We've scored from set pieces, we've conceded from set pieces. We've defended well, we've not defended well. Mate, it's just a season of football, particularly for a team like us which is very much trying to build something.
Trends for me are something which happen over a longer period of time and something which become endemic. I see absolutely no difference between winning 3-1 and scored three goals in the first 15 minutes than scoring three goals in the last 15 minutes. For some reason, it seems to be more convincing if you score early and are comfortable after that whereas if you score late it tends to navigate towards you having a struggle. But if you look at trends historically, from the first year I managed, all my teams score late goals. It's sort of the game model. So if anything that's tilting towards more of the team we want to be.
Some fans are looking for some kind of revenge against Matty Cash for his challenge on Bentancur, how do you stop the team from getting carried away with that?
I wouldn't place sole ownership on the fans, it seems like you're fuelling that a bit yourselves! No interest mate. For us, the challenge is to face a really good team with really strong home form and beyond that you'd be surprised about how
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