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Are you... are you worried that the... the intensity that I think that you were... you were famed for in... in the first few years has... has perhaps sort of slipped away a little bit this season?

And... and if so, do you know why? Yeah, I don't think that's... I don't think that's right. I think in certain games we've played a different way, mainly for the fact that it's very difficult to continually play

that way every game when you're playing every two, three days. It's almost impossible to play that style of football with the game schedule that we've had, especially with the same group of players... um, with a couple of the injuries

that we've got. So we've had to protect certain players and try to minimize their running in certain moments. I mean, the way we played against Sunderland was a replica of the way we played against Everton, we won that game 4-1, so...

it's... you know, it's a... it's a... big challenge for me is to look at the attacking outputs and I think that... that's the area. I'd say off the ball, you look at all our pressing stats and you can... you can go mad on statistics,

but we're still up there as... as one of the best pressing teams in the league, but I think we've got to choose the times that we do it. And just fi...