Slot on his touchline ban and his yellow cards

Slot on his touchline ban and his yellow cards  17/12/2024  AXA training centre, Liverpool, UK

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00:00You yourself have got to serve a slight ban for this game against Southampton,

00:03how do you feel about having to serve that and how will it impact you throughout the game?

00:08Not as much as I thought it should impact me,

00:13because if you are suspended in Holland then you're not allowed to be in and around the dressing room,

00:18you can't do the media as well, so this is a lighter version of suspension.

00:27I would say that I'm used to it, but I've never been used to being suspended,

00:30so it's the first time I am.

00:35So I think I'm still able to do the things I want to do,

00:40the less impact you have on your team is during the 45 minutes

00:46and the most impact you can have is at half-time or before the game,

00:51and those are the things I can do.

00:52But in an ideal situation I would have just been on the sideline,

00:56but I got a yellow, which I probably deserved again as well, and, yeah, it happens.

01:05Do you think you deserved all of them or were you a little bit surprised?

01:08No, one of the three I didn't deserve,

01:10but I told what I said back then, which was for Tony...

01:16OK, that's a word we don't use that much over here.

01:20But that was meant to one of my players, so that one was a misunderstanding,

01:23but the one I got against Chelsea was absolutely deserved.

01:26In this game I could have got five maybe,

01:29so to come out with one was maybe even...

01:34I have to thank the referee for that.