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Van Nistelrooy frustrated after Utd offside winner knocks Leicester out of FA Cup
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07/02/2025
Van Nistelrooy frustrated after Utd offside winner knocks Leicester out of FA Cup
07/02/2025
Old Trafford, manchester, UK
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00:00
Can we start with the last minute, the award of the free-kick and the current wide-feet?
00:18
You've come from an up-side position, how did you feel and what was your view on that?
00:24
Yeah, it's a hard one to take because the game was decided on a mistake, it was clear.
00:34
It's not a matter of VAR, where you have to look millimetres, it was half a metre, it was clear.
00:44
The team didn't deserve to lose the game in this way, because they fought, they played well,
00:53
dominated the game for a long bit, leading 1-0, and that's how you feel after this.
01:03
Did you feel today you had to open it really bad?
01:06
Was that like having the impact you had on the team?
01:09
Yeah, you've seen the game, you've seen the way he played, the way he lifted the team,
01:17
on the ball, off the ball, performance excellent, but also leadership.
01:22
It's not only the captain's armband that he wore, it was also the way he led the team,
01:27
the way he was demanding from his surroundings, coaching, talking, preventing situations to occur.
01:34
So I thought Bouba and Will had a great partnership today on the ball,
01:40
but also off the ball to control the game.
01:43
Are there other big boosts you can take from tonight,
01:47
off the return of Will, the impact he had on Bouba, but are there any other positives?
01:52
For me, the general performance was a big positive.
01:56
Of course, after Spurs there was hope, the hope was back,
02:01
after Everton all the hope was gone.
02:04
We wanted a reaction after that, we did, we did.
02:11
We said we weren't good enough against Everton, we showed that today.
02:16
That was an incident in between two very good performances, Spurs and United,
02:22
and also the belief that we are capable.
02:27
We are capable to compete against the best teams away from home as well,
02:33
and that's the way forward.
02:36
When we are consistent in that, and that's our goal, then we can compete at this level.
02:46
Ruud, I think when you manage a team in this sort of position,
02:52
you need to be in the lead in terms of navigation.
02:56
Sometimes it feels like, oh, the FA Cup is out of the way,
03:00
but how you speak about the FA Cup, you're not going to feel like that,
03:04
it's going to be a group fight for you.
03:07
Do you want me to answer this?
03:11
How do you feel?
03:13
That's not a question for me.
03:19
We live, we want to die on the pitch today,
03:24
so to get to the next round, to be the best we can be,
03:31
we are competitive, we are representing ourselves in the FA Cup at Old Trafford.
03:40
I don't understand the question.
03:53
I thought the team defended as a unit,
03:57
and all the individual parts in how we wanted to press
04:02
and how we wanted to defend certain phases was excellent,
04:06
in teamwork, in intensity, and holding United far from our own box
04:14
for a long period in the game.
04:17
Of course, you know with their quality that they're going to create something,
04:21
but also lower, we defended really well,
04:24
and the back line and the centre-backs were important in that.
04:38
One, you can't turn it back, so we have to live with it.
04:44
Two, we're all humans and make mistakes,
04:48
but at this level it's not good enough.
04:53
That's it, and for me that's enough to be sad about.
05:00
Should the rule of this competition be that if VAR is available,
05:08
come back to the ground and just let's have it,
05:11
rather than not having it at all because some clubs don't have the technology?
05:17
I mean, let the FA decide on that and UEFA and whatever you want to do with VAR.
05:23
Would you prefer that?
05:26
Wow, let me think about that question.
05:34
Ruben Amorim came in earlier and talked about the fact that
05:38
you changed your typical pressure structure,
05:41
which caused some difficulties for your team when you had to coach,
05:44
especially with Rat and Sadd in terms of how you wanted them to jump out and press.
05:48
Is that true, first of all, and secondly, what made you go,
05:53
what did you see that made you want to go with that decision
05:56
to change the pressure structure for United?
06:02
We had some different details in pressing.
06:08
The set-up was slightly different,
06:11
the way we pressed over our right side and over our left side,
06:17
when we forced the ball to the sides and the jumps that were necessary there.
06:23
Slightly different, but that's correct.
06:27
It worked because we got pressure on them, we forced them to the sides,
06:32
in the second half they came, of course, with solutions,
06:36
with Bruno dropping in really deep,
06:38
but for us it's not a problem to leave him out of our block,
06:42
and when the ball was played in we were on players again.
06:47
I think the players handled the different situations really well,
06:51
where they came with variety in movements on the wings and from the tents,
06:56
so the communication was excellent there and we handled that part really well.
07:02
You seem quite grounded about the fact that mistakes happen,
07:05
but a winner, Old Trafford, a cup run could redefine your season.
07:09
Are you having to choose your words and dampen your emotions?
07:13
Because I can't imagine that changing right now.
07:16
Disappointed but angry as well.
07:18
Yeah, we are. We've got it.
07:23
When you prepare the whole week for this game,
07:28
and reacting after the Everton loss,
07:31
and put in a performance like that,
07:34
and it's been decided on a clear and obvious mistake,
07:42
that is unacceptable and unthinkable in this level,
07:47
but it happens to you.
07:50
We have nothing else to do than pick ourselves up, also from this, again.
07:58
That is not what the team deserves.
08:02
Obviously you were working here for six months earlier this season,
08:05
around that time, how much did that play a part in knowing the strengths
08:10
and limitations of the United squad?
08:14
Obviously you study the opponents in how they play under the new manager.
08:24
That's how you make your game plan, on and off the ball and in transitions.
08:30
You're looking at behaviours that are new under the manager that is in charge.
08:39
That's how you plan it and the game, and you train it.
08:44
I know the characteristics of the players,
08:47
but of course in this system it's different than it was,
08:52
and we looked at the recent months under Ruben.
08:58
In spite of the defeat today, does this performance at Old Trafford
09:02
and in the way last week, the fighting spirit, the lead,
09:06
does that form a springboard for you?
09:16
Yes, because when players feel that when they play collectively like they did today,
09:23
and also at Spurs, that is what you feel on the pitch as a player.
09:30
It gives the strength and the belief that we can compete in these levels,
09:37
and that it's a matter of consistency.
09:40
There cannot be a level Spurs-Everton, and now again United.
09:46
If we can get that consistent, then the team showed today
09:52
that they are capable of reaching high levels.
09:56
Sorry, I know your mind is obviously fully focused on yesterday,
10:01
you would have been very disappointed with the loss,
10:04
but coming back to Old Trafford again as a Premier League manager,
10:08
managing in the FA Cup, what were some of the emotions
10:11
in terms of coming back to a place where you had so much success,
10:15
the fans hold you at such high esteem, all that life coming back as a manager?
10:20
I have to say I was so determined and focused to perform here with the team
10:27
that I really blanked everything out.
10:33
Coming in here, driving into Old Trafford and everything around me,
10:40
I just completely blanked it all out.
10:45
I wanted to focus on my team, on the last final preparations,
10:49
before the warm-up, after the warm-up, in half-time, after the game,
10:53
closing the game down with the team, complimenting them with their efforts and performance.
10:59
Of course, now when things sink in, it's always special to come here.
11:05
One, to represent Leicester City in the FA Cup,
11:08
and representing the club is a proud moment,
11:12
and coming back to United and welcomed again, it's a privilege.
11:23
And also by our own fans, the away fans were supporting us in a great way too.
11:30
Now it sinks in a little bit.
11:34
Last one, sorry.
11:42
No, it's been enough.
11:45
It's been OK. Let's go home now. Thanks, guys.
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