Fulham manager Marco Silva reflects on their 2-1 loss away at Arsenal.

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00:00Good evening everybody, can we have the first question please, Mark, Tom, on your left.

00:29Good evening, not the best performance from us definitely, first half was not at the level

00:39that it should be, on the ball not aggressive enough, most of the times that we, and even

00:47if you started well, I think you started well the game trying to keep them a little bit

00:52more calm, we knew that they are going to try to press us higher on the pitch like normally

00:56they do, you were able to calm down a little bit again, but of course we missed that next

01:01step to try to punish, to try to create dangerous moments, I think most of the times we try

01:06to keep the ball on ourselves, not with the aim really to try to create the moments and

01:11the dangerous moments around their box, even so I think we kept them quiet, lowered our

01:17block than I would like to see, they pushed us a little bit more back, they have this

01:20capacity to do it, but they were not finding the moments to create the chances that is

01:26the reality, and we knew as the game was going it was going to be a little bit more

01:32open the game and we were going to have our chances too, but of course in this type of

01:35games if you consider goals the way we considered, two very soft goals, the first one we cannot

01:42consider, we can talk about the deflection, a little bit of luck in that shot, but before

01:47that we should have done much better in our left-hand side, the way we defended that space

01:50between central defender and left-wing back, and the second goal again the same story,

01:56a little bit soft the way we considered, but the biggest difference between both halves

02:01that second half we were much more aggressive in our attack, and that was the reason why

02:06we created four chances to score, and first half I think we didn't create even one chance

02:12because second half we had the chance of Adam, Raul and two from Rodrigo, showed that we

02:17were much more aggressive, the moves came much more, and more players involved in our

02:22attacking moments as well, because that we created, but I think what decided the game

02:26we believe was the way we considered, two soft goals.

02:29Did it ultimately get you anything out of the match, the goal that began 5-0 for you,

02:34did you feel that he missed a sitter or a header just a few moments before, or was it

02:38pleasing that he was able to get on the score sheet?

02:41I think mental point of view is good for him at least, but Rodrigo of course he understands

02:48really what is a striker life right now, he cannot be so down when he, ok we all understand

02:54that was one of the easiest goals of his career so far, but sometimes the life of a striker

03:00is like that, the reality that you cannot be so down when something happens, and I saw

03:04him fighting until the end to try to get something from the game, and he scored one and even

03:10after that he was there on the game, and that is the main thing for me, Rodrigo is already

03:15more mature and he understands really well what is his job in our team, what it means

03:20to be a striker at this level, and sometimes you have to score that type of goal, but sometimes

03:25can happen this type of situation, the reality that he was able to score one goal and to

03:30be on the game is what I demand from him.

03:32Monaco, you've had such a good season this season, do you think tonight you were a little

03:37bit flat after Saturday or can you not look to that as an excuse?

03:42Cannot be an excuse and I will not go in that direction that we were flat because of Saturday,

03:49yes we were not at the level, first half clear not at the level that we should, but cannot

03:54be an excuse what happened last Saturday, cannot be now keep complaining about what

03:59happened last Saturday, what happened last Saturday we already analysed, we know why

04:03and it was our fault why we are going to keep being flat, will not be an excuse, I

04:09will not go in this direction because we have the obligation to keep fighting and trying

04:13to play at our best level, first half clear, I agree with you we were really flat, we were

04:17not really there to try to punish them, second half was different, showed that the team was

04:24able to do it, unfortunately for us we didn't during the first half.

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