Frank on Brentford’s 2-1 Man Utd loss

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Frank on Brentford’s 2-1 Man Utd loss  19/10/2024  Old Trafford Stadium, Manchester, Uk

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00:00Did you miss the chance to maybe be even further ahead by half-time after 45 minutes when you were ready for the better team?

00:26Yeah, I agree with you. We definitely performed a good first half and also felt that we were the better team.

00:36In that half, definitely opposite second half, Man Utd was clearly the better team second half.

00:46Disappointed from my point of view. Happy with the first half of course, but disappointed in the second half that we were not able to do better.

00:53We knew of course they would come out flying and we were way too passive.

01:00To concede a goal after two minutes, that disappointed me.

01:06OK, that can happen in football, it's the Premier League.

01:10Then the scenes, the momentum just changed. They got on top, their confidence grew.

01:18We lacked, if not confidence, then the quality we had in the first half.

01:24Overall in the second half, too many of my players didn't hit their highest level and we need to hit our highest level.

01:30If you want to beat Man Utd, they have a good team, top players.

01:35A lot of their key players stepped up in the second half. All in all, a fair result.

01:40Did you win the toss? If United had changed hands or if you had chosen to change hands?

01:47I'm fairly sure we chose the end.

01:51Did we?

01:52Yes, they chose to kick off and we chose the end.

01:55They chose to kick off so we chose the end.

01:57Yeah, so they won the toss.

02:00Unfortunately, that's why two games in a row we need to train more that coin toss, we lost it.

02:05No, it's the same thing with them.

02:08Yeah, exactly.

02:13You just said that you knew United would come out flying in the second half,

02:17because obviously they were quite angry with the situation around the goal.

02:21No, it's just that 1-0 down, home to Brentford.

02:25They had to come flying out, of course.

02:32What's your opinion on the situation?

02:34I think it's a good referee, if I'm honest.

02:40I always try to look at it from both sides.

02:43If it was Man Utd at the corner and we took out Nathan Collins,

02:47or the ref decided because he was bleeding,

02:50I'm pretty sure they wanted to be able to take the corner.

02:53It's just bad luck, but I think they did the right thing.

02:56Do you think your players are well-drilled to know second-half situation?

02:59Obviously it was a very good score at the goal, it looked like it was against Dalot,

03:02I'm not sure that would have been the match-up.

03:04I haven't seen what was the scenario on the previous corner,

03:09so I'm not 100 per cent sure.

03:12Maybe we would have scored anyway, who knows.

03:17Ten points dropped now from winning positions,

03:20it's becoming a little bit of a theme here.

03:23How disappointed are you with that reaction?

03:26You spoke about it passing us.

03:30I think it's always...

03:37I think three of the games we know,

03:40it's quite a small sample from the season,

03:43but of course we look at that as well.

03:47We played away to Tottenham, City and Man United today.

03:54Of course I hope for more,

03:56I think this was the game where we had the better opportunities.

04:00When did I score the second goal?

04:02Six days ago.

04:07I'm a little bit disappointed we didn't have a better response,

04:10because I think a lot of my players still worked hard,

04:14but we just lacked that little extra character.

04:17I want the ball, get out of tricky situations,

04:20keep the ball a bit more,

04:22and you need that if you want to win here at Old Trafford.

04:27Can you speak about fine edges,

04:29and they're lacking just a little bit of something,

04:32what was said at full-time, as a lesson from this game?

04:36To the players?

04:38I said that we definitely need to play two halves,

04:41and I also said I thought we started way too passive in the second half.

04:46We know we're very good at pressing high and closing down goal kicks,

04:50and we let them play out and just come at us,

04:55and then we were way too passive on the first goal,

04:57and that was just very disappointing.

04:59What did you make of van den Berge's performance?

05:01Obviously he played right back,

05:03and gone out and had a really good game,

05:05and I think you dealt with him fairly well,

05:07but obviously in the second half United came into the game.

05:09Yeah, I think he did well,

05:11van den Berge against Gannaccio,

05:13I think Gannaccio had a good game,

05:15I think he was doing fairly well against him.

05:20Obviously there's a goal scoring around him,

05:23where I think the big thing,

05:25I need to look at it in more detail to be sure,

05:27I'll just look briefly at it,

05:29is that we need to be more aggressive and stop the cross,

05:32because I think it's Casemiro or someone who's doing quite a good run,

05:35that just make him take a step,

05:37and then he was free in the back post.

05:40And the idea to play him from the start was...

05:43Any what, sorry?

05:44To play him from the start instead of, say,

05:46a natural right-back type of step.

05:47Yeah, but he played that the last four games,

05:49three games, four games,

05:50so I think he's done well.

05:53One down here, four.

05:55Anyone else?

05:57Easy.

05:58Thank you very much everybody.

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