On whether he was ‘going for the win’ at 1-1…
We had a lot of attacking players in our line-up at that moment of time, but I don’t think many things happened in the extra time. It was, by the way, the extra time of the extra time when we conceded, which I think was fair because they made a substitution so then you add half a minute extra. I don’t know exactly when they scored but I assume that was between 96 and 96:30. Then we can only blame ourselves by defending it the way we did. One of our players decided to run out because he wanted to play a counter-attack, which was of no use because time was up so it was only about defending. Maybe we were too offensively minded. Not we, one player, was too offensively minded in that moment, which led to them scoring the winner, us losing the game.
On conceding two goals from set-pieces and if it is a concern going forward…
No, against Newcastle we conceded two set-pieces and they were the only two chances they might have had in that game. Today, they had more than only two set-piece goals. They didn’t score more, but they had chances from open play, from transition. So, there were more things not to like today than only defending set-pieces. The good thing was that in the other moments Alisson saved us.
Palace have a few threats. Set-pieces are one of them but counter-attacks and balls in behind are number two and three, and from all these situations they’ve created a lot of chances. What I said, we were able to create quite a lot against a Palace team which hardly ever concedes a chance, but when you look at the first half they totally deserved to win. In the second half I think it was a much better performance from us. If one team deserved to win today, I think it was Palace.
