 Yeah? Ready? Is he the right sort of character to be able to sort of put something like that behind him? Listen, in this situation, the guys who take the penalty, he took the penalty, are heroes for me. The guys who take the ball to go there to shoot, they can do whatever they want. They have to be a huge personality to do it. And not everyone is able to do it, and they did it. So that's why it's a ball. So miss it, miss it. So sometimes you shoot in one way. I said to them, just one idea, be convinced what you have to do. He decided to do this, it's fine. He missed it, he didn't want to miss it. It's happened, but be there in front of the responsibility for everyone and do it. When this happens, I will never, never judge you, absolutely. Completely the opposite, a big respect. You've had two penalty shootouts this year with the Super Cup as well. Do you practice for them or not really? Sometimes we practice, yeah. But it's just how you feel in the moment with the decision you are going to take and the talents that you have, mentally, physicality. So you have to be so strong there. But of course, yeah, they practice during the day. Hi, Pat. Despite losing the overnight, you could still be the first English team ever to win two doubles in consecutive years. Is that something you can use as inspiration? Yeah, it's a real lucky bit. If they ask me about the treble, it will happen after that. They are out. It's kind of been forgotten. That's how good you've been, that everyone's saying, oh, you can't do the treble, but actually you can do this thing that no other team's ever done before. I don't know, Jim. So I think we are put the problems that we had, that I know what happened this season, the problems that we have for injured, for some players that they took time to take the rhythm. The new players, important players, they left. So I could not expect being in that position here. It's a little bit. We were close again, because we performed to be close, but didn't happen. So from my advice about the passing the travels or the doubles or these kind of things, is why we are not focusing Chelsea? It's enough target to think about it. So I would say when you are in the one game left or two ends for the end of the Premier League, or we are final in the position, you are already in the final, the fifth couple, now I can answer you perfectly. So Chelsea is in maybe, you know, we felt two times how strong they are. The weapons they have up from have been the decisive player, maybe at the season in many aspects, and they are really, really difficult, and we travel with the situation that we know that we have. So win that game and see what happens in the next three or four or five games in the Premier League, and after we will see. The team talk on Wednesday night after the match, how it seems like that might have been quite a difficult one to do from a psychological perspective, because what do you say to the players? Nothing. But after the game, I say thank you to them for how... We talk about the game, be yourself. So all of us, we want to win, so we never know what's going to happen, but at least try to be ourself, and more than ever, we were ourself. That was not enough. And after that, what happens is, I would say thank you to all of them to dignify the profession, the job, what they do, after what they have done in the past, humility to try it again. And after that, not even one word, it's just you have to pass the moment alone, everyone himself, family, friends, it's not necessary words in that moment, everyone is sad, and you have to accept it. But as much there, it was more smiles already in the pitch. OK, the FA Cup semi-final is a huge target to reach another final. We leave it last season, it's so nice, the FA Cup final. And maybe the toughest opponents we can face right now, all respect for United and Coventry, of course, but it's a really tough opponent. Yeah, we travelled this afternoon and, yeah, tried to smell who feels better, who recover better than the game against Madrid, because you talk with them, you know, I'm fine, Pep, I'm fine, Pep, I'm fine. But at the end, you never know if they are fine, because sometimes they recover better than the other ones, and everyone's ready to try to, yeah, to this battle again. And given the run-of-form in October, November, would it be fair to say that you weren't expecting to be in this position, really? Completely, completely, I don't expect. What do you think changed? Do you think the club World Cup had an impact on things turning round? No, I didn't expect, I think in general, I said honestly, it was in October, November, the level we were playing is good, people say no, but always compare with the travelled teams or before, when you compare with the travelled, the memory there is here, always you are losing, but it's just that feeling. I remember clearly the games against Crystal Pala we draw, the game against Tottenham we draw, against Liverpool draw at home. So, many games you were an outstanding level, so it's not a turning point I would say before the World Cup, we were bad, you know, and the other ones, you were up and you start good, up and up and down, that is normal for the opponents for many reasons, but the level of consistency being here, I'm pretty sure the opponents, our contenders, admire us for just that point. After six, seven years being there, still being there, they know these guys are unbelievable, I know that feeling, I know they think about that, it's not about the quality, it's being, every day do your job, and we have done it, still we are there, and it's just one month at the end of the season, one game, potential two FA Cups, six primary games, and we have to do the rest, so we work a lot, like all the teams of course, but we include it, we work a lot too, to now don't get rid of one second of our dreams and our intention to try to do it again, so it's going to happen. Do the opponents ever tell you that they think you're unbelievable? No, no, no, I don't speak with them, but I have the feeling, I would or I would feel, so I admire Liverpool for that, so whatever happened this season, I admire Liverpool, when I said Jürgen and Liverpool always have been, because it's that, it's the team like phases, it's the real, real contender, that phases, phase to phase, I go against you, and during six, seven years, and I don't judge for, I mean, you leave the trophy, you don't leave the trophy for the Landcourt, for the last corner, it's the mound of games during season by season, being there, and this is the most difficult thing, and being in that position, we were close to still fighting for the titles, that one month left, I would sign every season, arrive one month left, fighting for the three titles. My career until the end is what I dream of, it's the best, when teams do this, it's because I've been really good that season, and after we win the final, always a good example. You know, we lost last game in a penalties, when we were really good, and we won the Champions League, when Lukaku, three meters, three meters alone, in the middle of the goal, falls for Anderson, Anderson save it, and we are incredible team, how good is Manchester City. You know, in last game we did everything and we couldn't score. These margins in these levels is, and you have to accept it, it's the stars, I don't know, it's football, I would say it's not about Inter, or our mid-city, or Madrid, or Barcelona, it's football, football is like that. It happened with Madrid, it happened in Atlético Madrid, it happened against Chelsea, it happened against Inter Milan, Inter Milan against that, or Chelsea against that, so it's football, there you have to accept it, so, but important is, next season I was signed, arriving at the stages in this post-conference, after quarter-final semifinals, for the fact that they're fighting for the title, that means in every game, every game, you have been who you are, and there's no doubts about that. This team is unbelievable in that sense, unbelievable. I just mentioned there about the fine margins, whether it's Lukaku in the final, or on Wednesday night in the penalties, given what happened on Wednesday, do you think that maybe puts into perspective just how impressive it was that you managed to achieve last season? That maybe people now have a better understanding of just how impressive it was? No, I don't think you don't have to... I think everybody knows how difficult it is when we are done in the season, and the same is with the same difficult team being there, to be in close, to be... So maybe we'll go out for the, I would say, the FA Cup, we don't reach the final, but being in semifinal, we were in a lute, in a way, they know how difficult that stadium is, and spurs away, so... And at the end, even Newcastle at home, so we know perfectly we can happen, and being out on the way we do the qualifying in Champions League, El Madrid, it's happened. But, you know, with the group stage, we won all the games, we didn't lose one game. We were at Champions League, we didn't lose one game. So we were there, so it can be better. Yeah, of course, it can be better, even win the trouble, it can be better. But the level of every time, you know, it's there, it's always remarkable, so... I don't have bad feelings or anger, to say something to the team or the club, to... You know, when you see how we behave, it's just, OK, relax, try to forget and prepare the next game. Ask to you guys, Simon and Michael. Pepe, if you could pick a game to play, kind of, days after the disappointment of Wednesday night, would it be another big knockout game, like Chelsea is on Saturday? Well, I don't know. I don't know. Maybe I would pick one week later and have to do it. It's where it is. Yeah, it's the same, like, the same Madrid, you know, before Crystal Palace, Luton, so... It's where it is. I prefer to be in Champions League than Dombie. I prefer to be in semi-finals at the Champions League with a little margin of time. I prefer. So I prefer to play this and stay at home, to think in the next Premier League game, because we are out for the FA Cup. Until we are out, it's better to be here, even the situations, the circumstances that we have. I explained weeks ago, no time, absolutely, we go there and try to compete in our best. I said, I want to feel sorry for ourselves for the fact that we are out and it's the highest level, in the top level, these kind of situations happen. You arrive in the last stages with the best teams in the world, the best teams in the country, and sometimes you lose games. There is no better. I think, in fact, to be a top, top club when you accept that with normality. The problem is when you don't perform or you are not who you are, that was the problem. But when this happens, accept that they can beat you. You know, they have a football, it happens that sometimes you win when you don't deserve it. It happened a few times in our club, I would say, but sometimes happens that you don't win when they were better, you know? But what can I say, accept it, congratulate them and improve for the next time it happens we can do a little bit better to beat them again. It's the only way I know. If you start to complain at this and that, that decision, that decision, we were lucky and lucky. What is that? In 180 minutes, always they are lucky for both sides. There are moments that are lucky for both sides. At the end, it works, it works. Hi, Pep. You've spoken a lot about the response from the squad after that game against Madrid. Do you know with these players who have shown their mentality and their mindset over the last couple of years, do you need to do anything different after such a heavy defeat or do you just know that they will bounce back? It's not the first time we are losing in the quarterfinals or semi-finals at the Champions League in the past. I remember many times we were in the quarterfinals out to have six, seven games left to win the Premier League or to win all the games, we had to respond well and we did it. That means we are going to do it again, I don't know. I don't think I have to say much to them. They know, they are so mature in many aspects. We will remember that, we will remember that still. We had a lot of nice things to fight or to do it. In the start, one by one. In semi-finals the FA Cup is enough, you know. It's important enough to take seriously. And just one last one. Is Manuel Akanji available tomorrow? Yeah. Yeah. No injury? No. They were so tired. Okay, thank you.