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It was nice to win for all the fans who travelled, I heard one saying they were up at 5am,
manager Dario Vidosic said It always feels good to score and if I score four, it feels much better,
It’s a massive game,
said the Manchester City manager, Nick Cushing We’re defending with everything we can, we’re really tight when defending [apart from] those set-pieces. The first one wasn’t good enough, the second one was good from them, but we need to improve them because set plays can win games for you and we could have won this game,
the Tottenham manager said We talked about the Arsenal way – what it looks like and why it’s important for us,
I think this one will be probably the biggest one [challenge] in my career as a manager.”
We believe that we can expose them but we’re also very aware that there’s a lot of threat in Lyon and what they can create. We’re super humble for the task because they probably have a next level in them but so do we. There’s a balance of us being very humble and very aware of what we’re going to play against but then also a big belief because we think we can do something on Sunday.”
Slegers, who signed an 18-month contract as head coach in January, shares that view Having these players back is very positive for us. They trained today [Friday], the plan for them is to train tomorrow, and then they will be available for Sunday. But everyone still needs to come through training.”
On the duo’s fitness, Slegers said We’ve had a seven-day turnaround, which we barely have, so that’s been good for us. We’ve trained hard and we’ve tried to work on all the details together [and] I think the environment has been very positive and constructive.”
Slegers said of Arsenal’s preparation