Any positive news on injuries?
We have only Richy [Richarlison] with one week training with us. Only Richy is completely back and we recover him. For the other players, they start to work but they work alone. Ben Davies, Emerson and other players are working hard but they are not available.
Brighton and Spurs have been charged after the incident in the match last weekend, what are your thoughts on the charge?
What we created in that moment was not a good impression for anyone. Maybe for the atmosphere we created it is good the decision. We have to be better and personally I am happy we showed we are a team, we are linked, we are close and we defend ourselves and our club. At the same time I am happy because I feel I was not involved in anything, so it is a good decision I stay on the touchline tomorrow.
Will the club accept or appeal the charge?
I think we have to clarify something like the club but this is not a decision for me. It is a club decision but important to clarify with the FA and everyone our position. We were not the people who create. Maybe we react and maybe apologise for that is good, but we were not the people who started this situation.
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Officials have come out after the match and said Brighton should have been given a penalty when Mitoma was fouled in the box. Were your surprised that they came out and said that?
It is not something I have to think about. It is their decision. They could do this for anyone. If they decide to do it, it is good. I don't have anything to say.
Can Tottenham still finish in top four this season with the current level of performance?
We could do. We have to play eight final games like eight finals. We started with Brighton and now we have eight games. We have to play attacking football. We are trying to push more to create more chances, to try to shoot more on target, to create something that can create a good atmosphere in the stadium and to get the crowd behind us.
Son admitted in his club interview on Saturday that he hasn't been able to get in the position to score those kind of goals much this season because of the system the team uses this season, as he needs to get into the box for the wing-backs to get down the flank and cross. Is that something you can tweak to make sure he can cut in from the wing more often to get him back to scoring more of those goals?
It is not something that depends only from us because it depends also on the opponent and the way they want to play. We have to find spaces, like Sonny did well in the last game, but it is not only one thing we can control alone.
We play against an opponent and we have to find the right solution to create chances for Sonny, for Harry, for the wing-backs, for Kulusevski, for Danjuma and all the players that play in that moment with different characteristics. So we have to take care of the characteristics of the player and hopefully we can exploit again like we did against Brighton with Sonny but also I think we can exploit spaces with other players.
Yves Bissouma has been out for over two months now, do you expect him to play again this season?
The injury of Bissouma is particular. He is recovering. He start to work but it is not easy to recover strength in the calf after an injury like this so we have to respect the time for Bissouma.
Given you've had two goalkeepers on bench lately, have you been tempted to include an extra academy player there?
Yeah but (we don't want) to create a disturbance to the academy players because they are playing in a tough schedule, they are playing important matches and we have to respect them as well and we want their best like we want our best.
You want team to play more attacking football, how will they do that?
Yes, by exploiting more the space, keeping the ball more and try to find the right spaces and superiority on the pitch. To play with patience and not to rush in the game or be frantic on the ball. This is the way. It is a long time we work on this aspect. It is not only in the last aspect we worked. We want to see the players improving under this aspect.
Difficult to make that change now?
I don't think we are speaking about a huge change. It is the work that we work on for a long time. It is about confidence, patience during the game and the style of this team to play in the right way for the characteristics of the players.
Can you achieve change to possession-based football with 3-4-3 or need to change formation?
I think we played many games in past that were really attractive like you say. For me, it is important to win games in this moment and not only to think about how it is attractive our football. But we played many games like this. With this style, we can exploit, we have a good squad and good players to try and do it.
What makes 3-4-3 so well liked by so many top coaches?
I think we decide to use this, and we create, we built a team to play in this way. So we have a squad with players that can play in this formation. We played well. We are not in a position that we can say we didn’t do a good job. We are here to fight for the fourth place. We have players, the team was built for that. We have to take care on that.
Maybe we have to play with more patience like I said, with more confidence. I think that in the moment, we played last season, over the last 14 games, we were at the top of the league playing with this formation.
How close is Ben Davies or Ryan Sessegnon to returning as you have a three-game week coming up? Is there a chance either of them could be back for then?
Is a question for the doctor. They are not working with us. They are working alone. We are pushing and the doctor are trying to do their best to have them without risk as soon as possible, but it’s not a question for me, I don’t have a perfect answer.
As Richarlison is back now but has had three similar injuries, how cautious do you have to be with his minutes?
We have to take care with him, to give him training, and the right timing to play. To not take risks.
Richarlison is so passionate and desperate to do well, does he need somebody to stop in and tell him if he's not 100 per cent and he can't go just yet as it seems he wants to be on the pitch even when maybe he's not 100 per cent?
He’s not the only one who wants to be on the pitch every time. Every player wants to be on the pitch. Sometimes they hide their condition to try to play, to have one possibility to score, to do something good. But now when you live experience like Richarlison this season, maybe they can grow in their mindset. I hope that Richy understands that we are taking care of him.
Have you spoken to Roberto De Zerbi since Saturday's incident?
No. This type of things stay on the pitch, you forget this type of situation immediately after the game. There’s nothing to say. Everything is fine for me.
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