“[It feels like a must-win], but unfortunately, I think the stats is not like there’s 100% sure that we will win the game. That’s the beauty of it. I’m very aware that a top performance and a win will be very, very helpful, but, you know, I go into every game believing we’ll win. I go into every game believing we have prepared well and we will do a top performance.
“So what I can affect is that I need to make sure that we are well prepared, I need to make sure that we pick the best possible team with the best possible opportunity to win the game, and I need to make sure we are in the perfect condition to come back out. And then we need a little bit of margin. That should be enough to win.
“For me, we look forward. We can’t dwell too much on the past. Because if we do that, we are too much sucked into everything. So, for me, it’s still 24 hours from last night. For me, it’s about taking the positive out of the game in PSG. And there was a lot of positives in that game. Learn from the mistakes you made and then bring all that to Saturday’s game against Fulham.”
“[Kolo Muani] would be fit enough to start against Fulham again. I think he performed well. Obviously, his best performance, not only because of the two goals and the assist, but the overall performance, pressing game, the energy and the touches. I liked that from him in the game yesterday.
“And that’s, as you say, the challenge that we are facing, that we are embracing, is that away to Arsenal, three days later away to PSG, three days later home to Fulham, three days later away to Newcastle.
“So how can we find that perfect balance of energy, intensity, freshness and the right structure and relationship on the pitch? So that’s a nice coaching challenge, let me put it that way. But anyway, Kolo has been good.
“I think it was exciting. I think you can just see the three, both the link-up play, the pressure, that was everything last night. I think the exciting thing was around the first goal. The way the header, the vision he had to hit it back towards goal to [Richarlison].
“His goal, how quick he reacted and saw it and his finishing there. And then the third one where he’s got it, got through, showed that little bit of pace. Got the ball with him and just clinical in the finish.
“So now it’s about doing that consistently every game. So that’s the next step. But it was promising.”