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Mauricio Pochettino Post-Match Press Conference | USA vs. Portugal Friendly · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Razio two defeats in two games. You know, what positives
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  Speaker 1: do you do you take out of this window? You know,
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  Speaker 1: given the results, and what do you think you learned
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  Speaker 1: that that you might be able to carry forward as
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  Speaker 1: quick as we get closer to the World Cup.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, we need to see our openers. Know
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  Speaker 2: who they were Belgium and Portugal and top ten on
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  Speaker 2: the ranking. I think we need to considerate that we
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  Speaker 2: were playing again teams that always when you play this
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  Speaker 2: type of game, always is difficult. That is the first thing.
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  Speaker 2: It's not to talk about to defeat. It's about to
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  Speaker 2: talk that the opening have player that they want champion leagues.
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  Speaker 2: They are playing for a big things in different clubs
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  Speaker 2: and I think the quality is air. That is why
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  Speaker 2: they are they are Consideringate one of the best teams
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  Speaker 2: on the top ten. Good point is massive for us.
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  Speaker 2: It's about to learn. I think we should play more
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  Speaker 2: games rather to play before some games. I think is
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  Speaker 2: to play games like this because even if it is painful,
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  Speaker 2: it's the only way to improve. It's the only way
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  Speaker 2: to learn. It's the only way to see how the
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  Speaker 2: top players and teams compete. And today I think we
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  Speaker 2: compete really well, like was again version first half from
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  Speaker 2: twenty minutes or fifteen minutes on the second half and
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  Speaker 2: in details, in a small details, I think we lose
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  Speaker 2: the game. The first goal that we concede. It is
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  Speaker 2: a thing that we were showing in the water break
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  Speaker 2: that can happen. But for different reasons. We made another
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  Speaker 2: mistake because it was one mistake before and this and
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  Speaker 2: the second goal when after we started, may change. They
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  Speaker 2: may change, you know. Sometimes it's difficult to ask all
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  Speaker 2: the said busy things and can happen. Because we saw
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  Speaker 2: in the morning in the meeting. Yes, things like this
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  Speaker 2: make us to really feel positive because I think we
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  Speaker 2: were completely well, but we still we need to learn
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  Speaker 2: a lot. Steve Amri.
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  Speaker 3: Christian was in a position kind of like a false
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  Speaker 3: nine I guess no.
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  Speaker 2: Nine nine striker. He played a striker in Milan.
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  Speaker 3: What did you how did you see his opportunities and
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  Speaker 3: do you see him becoming a little frustrated because it's
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  Speaker 3: been a while since.
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  Speaker 2: I think he was very active and I think he
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  Speaker 2: made a good good job. I think was involved into
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  Speaker 2: many actions. Yes, I luck you a shame, I literally
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  Speaker 2: that he scored with the opportunity that he has. It
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  Speaker 2: is normal. He was a little bit frustrate, but I
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  Speaker 2: think we were a little bit frustrated the whole game
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  Speaker 2: because you know, we spend a lot of time to
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  Speaker 2: talking about with the four officials. But it's normal some
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  Speaker 2: time the referees respect more. You know, some big names
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  Speaker 2: that than But that is not the excuse. It's only
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  Speaker 2: that he is. He feels frustraight and that is what
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  Speaker 2: we want, what we expect that he he was fighting,
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  Speaker 2: he was commitment in the faces that we the man more.
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  Speaker 2: And then with the ball, he's going to score because
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  Speaker 2: he has equality. I am sure that he's going to
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  Speaker 2: come back to his club and it's it's in the
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  Speaker 2: moment that he has scored is going to start to
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  Speaker 2: score again.
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  Speaker 4: I'm Marito Henry Bush now from the Athletic Last week,
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  Speaker 4: you were talking to the players and you said to
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  Speaker 4: us as well, why not us? Why not us when
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  Speaker 4: you're talking about belief? But do you worry that the players,
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  Speaker 4: you know, none of these guys have ever beaten a
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  Speaker 4: top European team. Do you worry that they will start
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  Speaker 4: to lose? Believe that they can actually beat a team.
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  Speaker 2: Like that who started start to lose believe the players.
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  Speaker 2: You're player all of your players why no.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, because they have never beaten a team like that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but always his hope the first time is going
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  Speaker 2: to be in the World Cup. We need to learn.
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  Speaker 2: That is why we are playing this type of him
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  Speaker 2: when you have him from this type of player, I
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  Speaker 2: see him for many of our players the first time
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  Speaker 2: that play a team, Ladies, I think we have a
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  Speaker 2: mix of some player that really face, you know, this player,
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  Speaker 2: but plenty of another players for first time there. I
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  Speaker 2: think it's we're also close off the World Cup, but
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  Speaker 2: I think God intelligent enough to know what we need
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  Speaker 2: to do. But by the way, not the player that
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  Speaker 2: first for first time is to blame because that we lose.
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  Speaker 2: I think he is. I think the is in some
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  Speaker 2: mistake that maybe we're not involved this this player that
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  Speaker 2: face for the first time. We're another player maybe have
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  Speaker 2: more experience. But I think the important scenes is to
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  Speaker 2: play this stuff a game like we are going to
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  Speaker 2: play again in Shermany Senegal. But I think it's going
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  Speaker 2: to be really really important for us because now it's
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  Speaker 2: I think it's too many positive. I am happy about
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  Speaker 2: the about the camp. I am happy about that the
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  Speaker 2: things that happen around us to finish, you know, to
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  Speaker 2: believe that it's only one way that we need to take.
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  Speaker 2: It's not, you know too to talk anymore about different
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  Speaker 2: things that are not helping. But I see this camp
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  Speaker 2: is very positive. I think was the end of the
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  Speaker 2: our cycle cycle or trashictory and preparation for the World Cup.
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  Speaker 2: I think it is the end because next roster is
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  Speaker 2: going to be the roster that is going to be involved.
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  Speaker 2: I sink it's too many things that we need to
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  Speaker 2: assess and to see in the next few weeks. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: I am more positive now than before because seeing the
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  Speaker 2: team compete, we are no far away. It's only details
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  Speaker 2: that we need to improve. When we match the opponent
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  Speaker 2: in the areas that they're going to match, of course
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  Speaker 2: that we will have, we are going to have possibility
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  Speaker 2: to beat them. That's right.
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  Speaker 5: I'merson talk about Fox Sports. I'm curious if you saw
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  Speaker 5: similarities between the goals you can see it tonight and
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  Speaker 5: a few the goals you can see it against gum
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  Speaker 5: In Then everyone was was deep and there was a
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  Speaker 5: lot of space higher in the box. Did you see
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  Speaker 5: smilarities and if yes, how do you prevent that from
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  Speaker 5: happening over and over again.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no, nothing to do. I see the goal that
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  Speaker 2: we can see that going to explain because it's better
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  Speaker 2: if I explained that when we recovered the wall and
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  Speaker 2: and we started to play and build from back, that
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  Speaker 2: we were building with three with also on the left Chris,
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  Speaker 2: Chris Richard and Alex Freeman. And please close the door,
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  Speaker 2: Please close the door, Please close the door. Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: It's like the four official that was so so slow
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  Speaker 2: open and giving the substitute show. Explain again when we
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  Speaker 2: will with three from back, because we recovered the wall
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  Speaker 2: and we play, we tried to play and and we
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  Speaker 2: go in the right side. And because a few minutes
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  Speaker 2: before we were showing one action that that sheedi was
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  Speaker 2: so high maybe over the line of police each or
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  Speaker 2: Mali Teaman and of course in possession we wanted to
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  Speaker 2: play with where and she DII so high not giving
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  Speaker 2: the channel you know, on the side to attack. But
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  Speaker 2: in that situation that we need to read better because
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  Speaker 2: when we are when the ball is fifty to fifty,
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  Speaker 2: when we don't have clear control of the ball and
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  Speaker 2: the clear capacity to move from the one side to another.
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  Speaker 2: If you lose the ball and your full back that
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  Speaker 2: in that moment is playing like a win back is
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  Speaker 2: too high you have you don't have time to recover
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  Speaker 2: your position. Because Auston did well by the moment that
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  Speaker 2: one run was on his back and the fullback are
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  Speaker 2: right late. That is a type of action that we
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  Speaker 2: need to prove because we were talking because we were
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  Speaker 2: showing a clip that one one. I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: you remember when gonsal Ramos shoot and save Matt Friz
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  Speaker 2: that was a few minutes before. That was the actually
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  Speaker 2: similar action that that we need to understand. When the
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  Speaker 2: ball is in another side, I don't need to be
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  Speaker 2: too high. I need to be in the line of
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  Speaker 2: the wall in the moment if we progress and sweep
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  Speaker 2: and change, no is the moment and then we have
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  Speaker 2: the capacity because she died or Alex or you know
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  Speaker 2: the Kali or max Aff they have the capacity to
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  Speaker 2: right from behind the lines zone and they need to
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  Speaker 2: be too you know high, And that is the problem
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  Speaker 2: that we need to manage because even if we explain
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  Speaker 2: a few minutes before that happened, and that when you
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  Speaker 2: give the possiblity a player like Portugal half or Belgium
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  Speaker 2: they punish you. That is why we need to you know,
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  Speaker 2: I think we are going to have three four a
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  Speaker 2: week to work before the World Cup and we are
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  Speaker 2: going to be very you know, pushing. You know this
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  Speaker 2: type of situation that when you are after four months
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  Speaker 2: and you really don't have too much time. You can
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  Speaker 2: tell the player, but the player need to feel after
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  Speaker 2: on the pitch in train sessions to doing this type
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  Speaker 2: of scene. That is why this type of mistake that
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  Speaker 2: are not crazy, but in this type of game player
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  Speaker 2: like Nato Dramos Bruno show Felix and when you have
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  Speaker 2: a centimeter it's possible that they can score that. That
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  Speaker 2: was what happened, and the second goal was because of
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  Speaker 2: our organization. When you start to make changes, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's some time someone forget that you know that they
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  Speaker 2: can do this. This action that happened. Luck it that
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  Speaker 2: we be touching some you know body and go out
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  Speaker 2: that it was inside and we go see it. But
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  Speaker 2: the thing overall we need to be positive about the
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  Speaker 2: two comes, the two games and the camp.
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  Speaker 6: Maricio, what was your message to the players after the game?
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  Speaker 6: You tell them they won't hear from you till make
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  Speaker 6: twenty fourth twenty fifth, and do you let everyone know
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  Speaker 6: they made it or didn't make it.
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  Speaker 2: No, I spoke with them. I didn't talk them after
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  Speaker 2: the game. I think from the beginning of the of
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  Speaker 2: the camp I said, look, things that we need to
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  Speaker 2: change is stop to talk a lot about things that
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  Speaker 2: don't really help. I see now they know that it's
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  Speaker 2: going to be a competition. They know that we are
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  Speaker 2: going to see every single week, every single game, and
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  Speaker 2: we are going to assess one you are a half
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  Speaker 2: or more, and you are going to make the decision
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  Speaker 2: the twenty six players being in the roster. I think
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  Speaker 2: it's who will be there is going to be happy.
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  Speaker 2: Who not on the roster is going to be sad.
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  Speaker 2: But I think we don't need to talk too much.
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  Speaker 6: How many players in your mind are in contention thirty,
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  Speaker 6: thirty five, forty.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yeah, maybe for what they into sell, yes,
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  Speaker 2: yeah today, Yes, maybe a few mores that you know
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be painful because in that process always
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  Speaker 2: you greate links. No, but it's going to be it's
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  Speaker 2: going to be difficult to going to pick twenty six
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  Speaker 2: from thirty five forty players.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you, Mauricia. You spoke about how it was just
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  Speaker 7: little details and moments of quality and that's ultimately, ultimately
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  Speaker 7: what determines the game. Is that more comforting because it
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  Speaker 7: is close and there are things there and you could
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  Speaker 7: see the fixes. Or is it frustrating because again it's
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  Speaker 7: so close and if one or two moments go a
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  Speaker 7: different way, maybe we're talking in a different way.
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  Speaker 2: After this game and after this camp, we had a
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  Speaker 2: USA and we are competing again Belgium Portual. I think
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  Speaker 2: for sure Veiandual have in the top one hundred player
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  Speaker 2: few or some player playing in that top one hundred.
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  Speaker 2: I think we don't have. That is why it's good
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  Speaker 2: to play against this type of team. Frustrating, No, I
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  Speaker 2: am not. The frustration is not a frustration. It's good
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  Speaker 2: to see because what I saw from my players today,
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  Speaker 2: even if Christian was a little bit frustrated. No. But
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  Speaker 2: if you conpare Christian the first game and the second game,
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  Speaker 2: that's second game of Christian, he can improve from this
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  Speaker 2: type of performance because when you start to show that
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  Speaker 2: you feel when you care, and you frustrate it because
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  Speaker 2: you want to win, you want to fight, you want
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  Speaker 2: to go, and you want to score and you want
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  Speaker 2: to take them and you want to have the t
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  Speaker 2: that for means the difference and I think frustration now
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  Speaker 2: is it's good to have this type of games when
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  Speaker 2: you are building some scene. It's not only that you
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  Speaker 2: need to tell this guy that that is going to
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  Speaker 2: happen if we don't do that all this or that
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  Speaker 2: it's important that after the experience that you are leaving
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  Speaker 2: there when you feel that the opponent is really good,
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  Speaker 2: when you recover the wall and give the ball quick
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  Speaker 2: because bad pass, bad control or technique, or but then
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  Speaker 2: when the first control is good and play quick and
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  Speaker 2: you need to run, I need to chase in. I
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  Speaker 2: think that is a thing that you start to experience.
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  Speaker 2: To have the experience and to live and to be
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  Speaker 2: and to live in inside of the pitch and things
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  Speaker 2: a massive lesson for us. That is why I think
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  Speaker 2: we are we are on time. Also, our decision need
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  Speaker 2: to be right because that is good tests to make
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  Speaker 2: good decisions for the future. Like you say, with today,
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  Speaker 2: we play maybe with a different with different characteristics as
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  Speaker 2: more midfielder Christian in front maybe or after and then
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  Speaker 2: we finished with to a striker and see how the
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  Speaker 2: team behaves. You know, this is more solid less solid.
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  Speaker 2: We can create more less chances. It's not because you
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  Speaker 2: play with three strikers you can create more chances, because
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  Speaker 2: you are less solid than you have less capacity to
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  Speaker 2: create you know, links in the in the half a
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  Speaker 2: space and or to build from up. But I think
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  Speaker 2: it's yeah, it's a positive thing too. I think we
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  Speaker 2: we cannot be negative only because of not only because
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  Speaker 2: of the result, but of course the results are negative,
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  Speaker 2: but are not official games. And first for us is
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  Speaker 2: fair to compete, better to learn all this after to
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  Speaker 2: go to the result, because we cannot go to the resume.
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  Speaker 2: If we not compete, well, we are not giving or
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  Speaker 2: doing the thing that we need to do if we
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  Speaker 2: want to be in the in the top. Mister Martinez
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  Speaker 2: here and waiting, so yes, thank you, one one more,
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