You’ve conceded very few goals in open play recently. How have you been able to do that and are you impressed with what you’ve seen?
Yes, I am very impressed because it’s not easy to do it in this league. It goes down first of all to the engagement of the players, understanding how important that is, their application and then individual and collectively how good they’re able to execute it. That starts with the front players the way they go about the press, how intense they are and how much they’re willing to support the team in that sense.
Then it’s a collective thing; the understanding, the distances, the compactness, how you win the duels, how you force the opponents to play in certain ways that’s better for our defensive structure. It’s going to be really important for the future if we want to maintain the rhythm and winning football matches.
