They play with a lot of intensity. But if you are a little bit scared and you don't want to press and you don't want to be u so good in duals finally they they will destroy [Music] you. I am Carlos Martin Noel to lose football group coach.
Uh I'm here to talk about very important game maybe one of the most important game in our history. uh our victory at home against Liverpool uh winning 3-2 um in the match four in Europa League [Music] game. I think that the most most important it's uh that you can understand how we leave this game.
Uh we learn a lot our previous game in Liverpool. We play there, we understood well the game plan. We did good things in attack.
We more or less understood well what we can do in defense but I think that we didn't compete like you have to compete this type of games in Europa League against Liverpool Georgian club as a coach and especially in something like duels for example I remind the first goal that we receive in in Anfield when hot receive he can turn easy and in this moment I had in my mind they will score because it's impossible win this type of games if you are not competitor in especially duels in al pressures in uh in both box etc etc. So this is the real real things that I explained in the in the previous day in the in my speech in before the game in in the hotel to say if we win to win today we have to be competitors and we need to show that from the first second in every single duel and in the counter pressure. Liverpool was surprised how we change our mentality, how we change our way to to play in this game.
And after of course the game plan was better. We understood better how we need to defend, how we need to attack. But real real I am a coach that uh I believe more about passion about uh be competitors and I think that this day uh our team to lose was incredible about that.
[Music] We play 442 4231 is depend of the characteristic of the player. We play with Guom. We play with Logan.
We play with Nikolisen Musa with Mikl Caseres and Vinciro. Gabi that usually is our fullback in this game play as a winger for different reasons. Joe will explain in defensive things but also in in attack.
We play with Nicholas Esme is a very very good player in connection with ball to play as a connector and especially in pocket. Ta Linga in right and Aron Donum in in right winger. Another player that is a good player appearing inside.
The first thing in attack is that we wanted to generate doubts in our structure in three two with ball. Logan have a good ball with Niko in the middle and Musa as a right. We wanted to build in three with Gabby a little bit lower because in this situation Liverpool is a team that they want to jam a lot with uh three strikers with two attacking midfielders uh they want to jam and after sorry fullback central backs uh fullback and one six.
The first thing that we wanted is try to generate three against three. We accept this situation. We wanted to say okay we are here to to to say if you want to jump with three and five after we will have different solutions behind the wingers.
I think that these zones is one of the key of the games behind wingers and after we wanted to to accept that when we play with Nikico that was lefty we use Musa a lot to say if you jump before we can play with Nicholas's Mitch before behind sorry and after we can attack with Gabi and if they close we can play with Musa we can play with Gabby because after they start to jump with fullback and here again we can play with Nicholas in the middle or of course Iselinga had to be ready to attack his spaces. But as always I say in this type of games this is not enough. Even for example we knew that because Rasmos was left if in some situation even we can jump directly to Gabby was good for us because we provoke this jump later.
Okay. And arrive and generate one second more for for Gabi. But as always I say when you play against these type of teams you know that maybe you will receive here.
you know that you will have some connections around and that you want to play behind but with that usually it's not enough because the duals they are so good and if all the time you want to attack with ties they will be ready they will be ready and you cannot but one thing that we study when we play against um Liverpool was that with this Nicholas when we arrive here the wingers like they are so aggressive jumping with a striker with two wingers and they are so aggressive after here we can generate one two midfielders with Nicholas and with Aaron Donum or Mikl Desler is something that we use a lot in my teams is a B dynamics in white channels. We wanted to arrive here but after try to be in connection to arrive in opposite side. This is one of the key because the wingers of Liverpool are very aggressive but sometimes they want to even when the ball is here they are ready to if you jump with if you play sorry with a goalkeeper they are ready to jump club mentality is go forward work forward and this is something that we accepted we knew but real real everybody had to be ready to use well our body shape and accepting that it's not easy arrive in opposite pocket but if we arrive here is that zone that after we can attack we can arrive with overloads and after even we can attack the back post because as they jump forward after is so difficult uh be compact in in low block and I think that is something that we did well we accept it that we can lose some balls because if we lose some balls but we are good in counter pressure we can avoid that they can run but repeat every time that we can go in opposite side is a real real situations that we can generate a good chances for [Music] The first thing that we wanted is we defend it in 442 very compact uh not low in medium medium because it's something that if we were too low uh they have a big quality to to score easy goal for for them and we accepted that.
So the first thing is we more or less write a a red zone even in the training we put these lines this reference to say here they have to suffer if they want to play in base or in pocket real real they have to to suffer and they built a lot in three two with a lot of two players in pocket and pinning with with wingers. One thing that we knew was that one of the most important relationships that they use was from Alexander to Salah. Okay.
this ball behind. They are incredible. And after if you are too uh scared about that and you want to anticipate too much this depths, you need to to to to press players like Alexander Arnold because they are so good in in with ball after the problem is that you separate the lines too much and they can play with players like Hot or Mckelister or players like that and after players like Darwin, Nuna, they can attack behind.
So we were ready for these type of things and I think that the team was was good. Something that we wanted in our plan when they play in white channel. Yes.
Is a moment to start to press and I think that the first goal our 10 Nicholas Mitch and Gabi left fullback but this day play as a as a winger. We had to be very very ready and connect about this type because even if he's Gomez is a player who can play uh good behind. So we were well in in this we had to be very concentrate due to players that could be well and in this moment uh when they play with the central back in this moment just if Ta Linga feel that can start to jump we we jump but if not not too much and here when the ball arrived there we have to analyze one player outside or sometimes they put two players outside.
If they put two was more difficult to jump with our fullback because if we jump too much after they can attack behind and in this situation was good because receive there they are more or less with a player Malister in pocket and it's Aron who tried to avoid the vertical and diagonal pass outside. Of course we were ready to defend the third man with Mallister because I was incredible player and generate big problems to us in this game. But Cas was good and after defensive small details you know that when a player is looking forward you have to be ready.
But if you are doubt and you control back is a moment that you can start to press and the moment to to be aggressive and when the ball go back when he turn the body in this case I don't regain the ball and we were aggressive and we scoring in in offensive transition that of course you need to understand that when you play against this type of teams one of the most important things that you have to dominate is the is the [Music] transitions. The second goal was uh was very very important. I think that if you want to win, you want to try to be near to to to teams like Liverpool, it's um equalize the the intensity.
They play with a lot of intensity. But if you are a little bit scared and you don't want to press and you don't want to be u so good in duels, finally they they will destroy you like they destroy us in the in the first run because they they won 5-1. This goal was a a goal that we we keep the ball.
We play left to to right. Something that I explained in the plan. Aron Donum uh try to to arrive in the box, but finally we play back and finally we lose we lose the ball.
They can start their transition. Liverpool is a team that is incredible in their counter pressure. But I think that we were well also in our counter pressure and this goal was a situation that we lose the ball.
Beans Mikl and Lohan even three players uh we press them in white channel avoiding that they play forward and especially they can switch we regain very well in this situation and after we put the ball directly in the box that Alinga did an incredible control and shoot in back post and we score the goal that I think that in our stadium we we celebrate more not only last year if not even now people is talking me about about this day about this night about this goal sometimes I like to watch this celebration about all the players together how everybody was uh happy with our fans and I think that football is also that no it's emotions this passion and and this goal um summary perfect all these [Music] feelings was a very very important moment for us in our head because we receive uh the goal was goal so it was Cases who who scored uh and was I think difficult how we manage these emotions because our second half we start with a good energy when we watch that they were playing with Salah with Alexander Arnold with Mallister with all the best team as possible. the team um do this step forward not like a a we are here be careful now they play with everybody and I think that the team understood well how we have to start in the second half we start so aggressive and we generate good chances even before our second goal we scored this second goal but after that suddenly when the game was more or less in control we didn't suffer too much in in defensive aspects we received this goal and in this moment of course as a coach you think I I know maybe now uh we can start to have doubves and maybe this passes that we are doing well. This personality that we are showing maybe could be a little bit lower and no the team show me that okay we received the second but we have to continue in the in the same thing.
It's true that the stadium was amazing the environment was amazing and everybody was like animating us pushing us to say come on come on come on uh we have to win this game. Even my change in this moment I remind that was more 4231 our structure and I decide to put Frank flank mri as a second striker to say okay if in defend real is 442 I want to put more energy more velocity behind them. We knew that if not maybe finally they can draw and they can score the goal and and after finish with a worse [Music] feeling.
This third goal explained well also more or less something that we prepared before the game. Liverpool is a team that when you play around you need to accept that every time when you do a negative pass they press. When you play they press.
When you play here they press. But when even you want to play with a midfielder, they are jumping with one, they are jumping with two. And it's a lot of players in the white channel.
So when you receive here, you feel like it's impossible because you need to do one twos, you need to do goodmans, you need to look uh back to try to play behind. We prepare all the the the inoffensive things, the real real something that we prepare. It's okay.
We accept that here we will suffer but if real finally we can try to arrive in opposite side with Mikl Desler or Aaron appearing in these sides because as I say the winger jump we can start to to go no and this goal was good because we starting left we going right and after we are more or less in the block that we wanted and again we had this personality to try to go here but finally we switch in opposite side I in mind that Aron Donham had the ball. We can attack spaces and here was Gabby who attack the back post for in my opinion like the teams that wing our jam a lot they cannot arrive. We knew that we can generate two against one around their Alexander Arnold in this situation and we play here and after again from here in half space the back post it's another zone that they were a little bit worse and uh was like that uh Gabi decide to put again the ball in back post from Frank Mri uh and we score uh the third goal and you can imagine was was incredible.
Well, [Music] I have to repeat that was was amazing.
