“Djed and I walked off. We were just frustrated after the game and everything got really exploded by the media. It was nothing big. Everyone thinks it was the gaffer… it was nothing to do with the gaffer.
We were just frustrated because of a bad performance — from myself, as well. We want to play well and I didn’t play well, in my opinion.“
“I think it was a step forward. I liked what I saw from Brennan, it was classic Brennan, running in behind. And I really liked the assist from Xavi. Very good assist from Xavi. So happy that it was a goal from Brennan, assist from Xavi. I liked bits from Wilson [Odobert], and also of course he scored. I think Kolo looked like a handful, in many situations he could easily have scored one or two goals maybe in the end. But I think all of them have much more to come. But it was definitely a step forward.
“I think [Kolo Muani] is just taking steps in the right direction and he’s getting more and more fit. And I will still go as far as I don’t think he’s fully firing yet. But you can see he’s such a handful to play against. The goal is a ball in behind where he just can’t really control it, the defender and he’s practically on the goalkeeper. And then he shows extreme composure to just take the ball down and a nice assist for Wilson.
“And he’s through two or three times and could have scored more. So I think he was a threat. Probably also should have scored on the header.”
“I think I understand why it can be given. But I think it’s a little bit - what I’ve talked before - that still footage, studs on leg, is what the ref sees the first thing. That’s where it looks bad. There was no recklessness in this tackle from Brennan. He goes down into a sliding tackle, you can say ‘why give the opportunity?’ But when he goes down, there’s literally no leg in front of him, so when he slides, then the player steps down, and then it looks bad after that. I think it was a little bit unfortunate, and I think it was harsh.”