Vitor Pereira react's to relegation threatened Wolves' 1-0 loss to 10-man Arsenal

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Vitor Pereira react's to relegation threatened Wolves' 1-0 loss to 10-man Arsenal  25/01/25  Molineux Stadium, Wolverhampton, UK. 25/01/25

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00:00Is there a chance you missed that for your team after that happened?

00:05Sometimes football is very tough, very tough and today what I can say about the match and

00:15about my team, today I see we play with quality, we play in our way, try to play in our way,

00:29with our identity, we create a good chance to score, we defended very well the set pieces,

00:43we defended well as a block and we play with the true spirit, trying to win the game, trying

00:56everything to get points from this game but in the end my frustration is the result, it's about

01:06the result, nothing else. What did you think of the two red cards?

01:16The first one to be honest I didn't see very well, I didn't see very well because I was in

01:22the opposite side, I didn't see very well. About the second yellow card, I believe that because

01:32you know, João is a player, he gives 100% every match for the team, he's a team player, he wants

01:46to help, he wants to help, he's emotional. We spoke in the halftime, I said to him,

01:53João you know you got a yellow card, you must be calm, no, no man, he said to me, okay I will

02:00control, I will control but in the end you know it's a second, in a second you can get another

02:09yellow card and I don't want to speak about if he's, if he's the yellow card. I believe that he

02:22made a foul before and then the second foul, okay he got a yellow card, I must accept, I must accept.

02:31Peter, I think the first yellow card was kicking the ball away, I think he may have misheard the whistle,

02:39but still this season the rules being around not kicking the ball away, was that maybe slightly naive from the player?

02:46The first yellow card, yes, yes I remember, I remember. But you know this is, this is what it is,

02:53we got, I think the moment that he got the the second yellow card was the

03:01was the moment of the game because in that time we created two chance, two clear chance to score

03:06the first goal and after of course Arsenal has quality and was difficult

03:15but we play against Arsenal eyes on eyes, playing our game, we cannot compare this game with the

03:26game against Chelsea because against Chelsea I just see my team reacting and reacting. Today

03:34I see my team playing as a team, confident, of course in the moments that we need to suffer we

03:43suffer together and trying to play and to force our game and creating chance to score

03:54and controlling the best players, controlling the things that we need to control when we face

04:03this kind of team, in the end the result in my opinion, this is my opinion and I respect

04:11all the opinions but in my opinion the result doesn't, this is the kind of game that result

04:18doesn't reflect what happens on the pitch. In that very early stages of the second half,

04:2611 versus 10, Arsenal having a lot of the ball at that moment in time, were you willing your side

04:31on to maybe take a few more risks in that early stage before they did create those chances that

04:35you spoke about? We start the second half with two, three free kicks and you know in the free

04:45kicks they create, they are a danger team and as a big team they try to press us in the first 10

04:57minutes of the second half and we had some difficulties to play but after this we start

05:08to play again, we start to break the first pressure, the first line of pressure and we

05:15start to create problems and after came the second yellow card but in this time, in this period we

05:25had, I remember, two clear chances to score. Do you have any update on Jorgen's injury in the

05:32first half? I hope that the injury, I think it's not a serious injury because this is another

05:47position that we have problems because we have Ishan, he's the only player that can play there

05:56as a striker, maybe Kunja can play there but Kunja is not a striker and we need a midfielder for sure

06:07because we need a midfielder with, I explained before, we have Tommy and we have Belegaard

06:16but they are midfielders, they have quality but they are midfielders, they used to play with three

06:22in the middle, not with two in the middle and this is a different profile of midfielder

06:29and we need, we need for sure, we need another solution for the middle.

06:37I'm waiting, I'm waiting until the club is working, we'll see what happens. Thank you.

06:45Agbedu probably had his best game today, got man of the match from quite a few people,

06:49what will that give him confidence-wise going forward?

06:52I think he's a strong, strong, strong player, strong player and you know, he's with us the last

07:02three weeks or two or three weeks, I don't know, two or three weeks, he's in the process to adapt

07:08to this league but he's very strong, strong in the air, strong in the ground, strong in the duels,

07:19he's playing in the left side and it's difficult for him of course but he's doing, he's doing,

07:29today he was fantastic in my opinion and playing in the middle or playing in the right side,

07:40it will be better for sure.

07:43You said the club are working to bring in the two players you want,

07:46are you confident you will get the two players you want?

07:49I'm very confident, I'm very confident, I'm very, very confident. They will come

07:55and we will stay, we will reach our targets, we will stay next year,

08:02next season we will be on the Premier League, I'm very confident but I feel from inside, I feel from inside.

08:13No Carlos Forbes today, he hasn't played a lot of minutes under you as well.

08:17Injury, injury, injury in the knee, I think in the knee or ankle, but he has injury.

08:27Is it serious?

08:29No, no, no, no, something from the past but was not available for the game.

08:39Thank you very much.

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