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uh okay we're going to start with a
review of today's game then we'll be
doing a preview for sunday's game which
will have an embargo of 1 30 tomorrow
lunch time and then we'll finish with
a sundays which we'll have at 10 30 p.m
embargo saturday night for the sunday
newspaper huddle on the side we'll start
with today's game
james should i kick things off
thomas
felt like quite a tired performance do
you think they're just ready for the
season to be over
from massa from leicester the whole game
has been exhausted
you know
fair enough but we were the better team
and deserve to win so
we did what was needed we
we needed a point we got a point and we
did not allow nothing
no chances got punished for from a shot
from outside the box created enough to
win did not allow transition did not
allow chances for for
for leicester so i'm uh
i'm absolutely fine with the performance
it's a bit a broken record we did not
take what we deserve but uh
i think that was uh okay what we did you
your your home form i mean the number of
drawers must be so fulfilling when you
accumulate to them
what might have been yeah but not today
not today we
but it's the it's the story of the
season we need an assist from a wingback
and a girl from moving back
and
you can see the numbers of our offensive
players and you can see the numbers from
from the teams who are in front of us
but still today is
today is the day where we secured third
place we have been the whole season in
the top three
when we have in mind where we come from
uh in the last season in the last half
year we come from ninth place i guess
and we secured fourth place with the
help of tottenham in the last 10 minutes
of the season
and now we took ourselves and we fought
against arsenal tottenham who played
since weeks in one competition and we
are pretty much the opposite
so yeah we had some obstacles to
overcome and
some circumstances
around the club which was not easy so
full credit to the team and
it is a huge step in consistency for us
um
maybe it does not feel 100 like this
because the gap is so big to the to the
top two teams
and
okay we have stuff to do we have stuff
to improve we're the first ones to to
admit and um here we go liam
thomas i wanted to ask about
he played well today and he was asked
about his contract this week and said
you'll assess this this summer basically
how important do you see him getting to
the team next season potentially
i think he is our key key key player but
key key key players need to be on the
pitch and if he plays only 40 percent of
of of the games
then it's maybe a miracle that we arrive
in third place
because if he is our mozallah he is our
van dijk he is our de bruyne he is
simply that player he is our neymar he's
our gillian number p he is he is the guy
who makes the difference and if you only
have him 40 it's a huge problem and
giving
giving uh
giving that percentage it's maybe a
miracle of how consistent we produce
results and and puts everything into
perspective
because i saw liverpool last season
without van dyke and they struggled they
struggled heavily
and uh you see the difference so angola
is our key player and and uh he needs to
be on the pitch okay we can do two more
in today's game nazar and then matt to
finish
i was gonna ask a different question
thomas but with um
like how do you think you can solve
these physical issues i hope so is that
something you have to live with
it's hard to live with it's hard to live
with because
if you have because it's important for
him to be there and to have the rhythm
i think he played okay but he can play
so much better he can play so much
better but when was his last game when
he started like it was weeks ago so he
constantly starts getting rhythm and
once he has rhythm comes a little injury
and he's out again so he's never
imagined last last year he was like i
think in the last five matches of
champions league he got the trophy i
mean they handed him the trophy before
the match it was clear when he plays he
gets man of the match it was like this
and and this guy who gets man of the
match in every champions league game
he's only here for 40 something percent
of the matches this is huge for us this
is huge for us we do everything to solve
it
uh of course him as well i don't i don't
blame him i'm just i'm just
it's it's a concern and it's a fact that
that we miss him
we miss him a lot and
yeah because he brings something that is
that is unique
in in world football and he he has that
he has that ability to lift everybody up
and make the difference
and and uh yeah this is the the
challenge for him for us okay last one
on this section matt i mean there's been
a lot of players in the last two decades
chelsea have celebrated yeah is he right
up there with the best
yeah for sure
for sure he is but
you know to to
i can only repeat myself to to to be
that he can he can he can make the
difference but you can only make the
difference if you're on the pitch in
your top level
and uh this is this is our this is our
target for for him and he has to he has
to um he anyway does everything
in this the first one um yeah
what was the question
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if he's one of the very yeah he is one
of the very best he's one of the very
best midfielders in the world and he has
in terms of general i mean is he a drug
where is he i mean is he that yeah for
sure for sure but but because he is not
that obvious because he's not that in
the spotlight he's even more important
for our team because if you have in
these positions these guy like angola
with a mentality of a helper a water
carrier
this makes this makes the difference and
and and big teams and successful teams
need exactly this
and that's why we love him so much and
everybody wants to play with him and
that's why we miss him so much when he's
not there okay that's in today's review
this is not to say he's earlying harland
as well
you