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It’s three wins in a row, do you think you’re gaining momentum?
It is good to win. Three in a row even better. Three in a row away from home even better.
We just did our job. We don’t play great. We did our job at the end, which is to qualify for the next round.
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They are scored tonight and received two assists, can you feel that he is really in the moment?
He is confident, he is happy. He’s not a striker, so playing against a low-block team like Shkendija wasn’t easy for him.
When Harry came to the game and Sonny started coming from the left, it’s more of his natural habitat and he got his chance and scored a goal that was very important to us.
We were going in a direction of great risk when you are 1-1 in the result, if you let go of the game you take a great risk, so the second goal was important.
When Harry scored, he killed the game, which we probably should have done in the first half. In the first half we went 41 minutes without scoring and then we gave them space to play.
In the second half the game became more difficult for us after our changes and something that I like a lot, because I like to feel the players on the bench committed to the team and ready to make an impact.
The people who came from the bench made the difference.
Congratulations, what do you think of Shkendija as a team and which player stood out?
Thanks for the congratulations. It’s a good team that obviously pays with a completely different intensity than ours, so the question was always whether we would give them time to think, time to play or not.
We started very strong and the feeling was that we were going to kill the game, and then we didn’t. And then we let them play, we let them have time and they gave us a difficult game.
The fear we felt after they tied was fundamental to our reaction and then the intensity is different. We could feel that it was difficult for them to withstand our attack waves.
To choose a player, I would say that the team is well trained, well organized, very well balanced and the player who saw the red card in Romania and did not play today I think is an important player for them.
He was a player they missed in their midfield, but they are a good team. I spoke to Pandev a few days ago. He said that we would win the game here, but it wouldn’t be easy, and he was right. We won but it was not easy.
An hour or two before the game you would go up and down the field and look at the goals, what happened?
Before the game it was a funny situation because my goalkeepers told me that the goal was small.
I went alone and of course the goal was small. Goalkeepers spend hours and hours and hours at the goal so they know when the goal is not the right size.
I’m not a goalkeeper, but I’ve known soccer since I was a child and I know when I stand there and open my arms and I know the distance, so I immediately felt that something was wrong.
We got the UEFA delegate to confirm and yes it was 5cm smaller (too low), which of course we required that the goals be replaced by goals of the correct dimension.
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Did you seem to be watching the home team warm up?
What he was doing in warm-up, he was looking at them for the first time. I always like when I play against a team that I don’t know, I like to go see them live. Under normal circumstances, I’d be here last week or a couple of weeks to see them live.
I could not. I only saw it on video, but video is not the same as being with them, so I was just giving that.
But we are preparing for this game with a very strong team because we respect them. We made a couple of changes, that’s normal because we played again on Sunday and Tuesday and Thursday again.
We played non-stop, so it’s normal for me to try to give some players a break but we show them the respect we had.
We had a high-quality bank because we know we might need them. Probably without Harry Kane we would not have changed the game, so it was very important to have a bank with those players.
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