Manager Defends Pressing Intensity Amid Fixture Congestion

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...