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The need to rotate, the threat of Ipswich and Tyler Adams: Every word

He spoke about the possibility of rotating his side, the threats the Tractor Boys pose and the role Tyler Adams has played in recent weeks.

Here’s every word from the boss before Ipswich.

**Mark McAdam (Sky Sports News): Andoni, Ipswich up next in the Premier League, a team that's only won once so far this season in all competitions. But they have drawn recently with Man United and only lost by the odd goal.**

**When you've looked at your analysis, what type of a side are they, how different a proposition will they be to Spurs?**

Andoni Iraola: I think they come from good games.

Recently they also beat Spurs away. They are winning, tying, losing, normally by one goal, small details.

So we expect a game where, like today, the small details will be key. It's a tricky one for us because we have just a little bit more than 48 hours to recover. We have to travel.

They played Tuesday, two extra days. They played both games at home. So for them it's kind of perfect conditions.

And we have to now just use these two days to recover, see who is ready to go again, who can help us but maybe for some minutes and what positions we will have to change because I don't know but I suppose that everyone is not going to be ready to start again.

**MM: Obviously Liam Delap is probably their biggest threat, someone that's scored goals in the Premier League, young player that nearly joined Bournemouth a number of years ago. What type of different threat will he pose to your defence which as you said is a little bit patched up?**

AI: I think he's a player that is very complete because obviously he's a tall player, they can use him in their direct play. He's very good linking up play but he’s also quite dynamic and he attacks very well the spaces, asks for the balls in behind, very good also creating fouls, set play situations for them.

In the Premier League it's always like this. You come from a very difficult forward, you go to another one.

They have also different kind of players behind him, Hutchinson, Szmodics also that are big goal threats, very good full backs, putting crosses from outside.

It's going to be tight because all the games that they are playing are being very, very tight. I hope mentally, physically we can start the game at our 100 per cent because I think we will need it because it's the probably the most difficult one in the way that we had a good amount of days between Wolves and Spurs, but this one is a difficult one.

**MM: You seem to know quite a lot about Ipswich even though you've just literally finished Spurs a few moments ago. Is that because you've already started doing preparation or you just consume so many Premier League matches, you're just aware of the players that you will face?**

AI: No, we already started because tomorrow morning we already have the video with the players.

We have to analyse and show them what we think about Ipswich and in this short turnarounds, especially with the analysts we go overlapping, almost, teams and preparations. Because we have two days, just tomorrow, next day in the morning to put some videos, recover. We will not almost be able to do nothing outside and it's the base of our preparation and we have to go ahead, you have to start, you cannot wait until we finish one. And especially some part of the staff has already done a good job with them.

**Paul Belverstone (Premier League Productions): Andoni, you mentioned how much you've had to run today, how much you've had to work. How worried are you about this short turnaround and how tired the players will be mentally and physically?**

AI: Playing against Spurs is not the kind of game you want in midweek because it's a team that they run a lot.

They have athletes in the middle, forward and to match them you have to be at your best. And today no one saved anything. Sometimes we push a lot to increase the rhythm to open the games. Today we didn't want to do this because they are probably the very best in these situations.

And I felt like today the players finished tired, apart from the defenders. As a defender, you can save a little bit and decide, the fullbacks, when to push, when to save.

The other six that started, I think they finished very tired.

**PB: You mentioned Tyler \[Adams\] earlier. He's had to wait, or you've had to wait a long time to be able to use him.**

**He's now played back-to-back, 90 minutes. How is he doing in the bigger scheme?**

AI: It was not the idea probably at the beginning of the game today, but also we had a situation with Lew \[Lewis Cook\] that we didn't want to rush him, you have to value where is the risk?

But I was seeing Tyler with such an energy that I decided, also considering we were winning 1-0 and three points were kind of close, to I don't know, I don't want to say risk, but not to do the previous plan because I think today's finish of the game was very important.

But I don't know how Lew will come in two days. How Tyler will be in two days, how the ones, especially the ones who started both games and played a lot of minutes will be in two days.

Probably we'll have to make some subs.

**PB: How about in general terms with Tyler? You always said that sort of position is vital for reading the game and instructing on the pitch.**

**How has he settled into that role?**

AI: I think the way he plays naturally, it fits very well to the things we do. And he's very aggressive without the ball. He's very good reading situations.

Sometimes we have to put the brakes a little bit on him because sometimes he wants to go to everywhere, right, left. And sometimes you have to be, instead of pushing him to go, you have to just tell him, don't lose the position sometimes because he wants to go do everything.

I think also he's improving in these things. Yes.

**PB: This is the first time this season you've put together back to back wins in the Premier League. Are these all little milestones that are building at the right time?**

AI: I don't know.

I think it's important always a win. It doesn't matter if it comes after a win, a draw. To win one game in the Premier League is very difficult and it's very valuable.

Whoever you play, wherever you play. And we have to try to continue this has almost not started, but still we have most of the way to go.

We have 21 points. That is good in this moment, but we need more. We need more.

**Alexander Smith (Bournemouth Echo): Obviously Ipswich, one of the three clubs to come up. They're in the bottom three, but they seem to be playing well despite that. How impressed have you been with them in their start, even though they haven't got points that they perhaps might have deserved?**

AI: I think they've been very competitive in every game and this is the most difficult thing in the Premier League.

You know, they haven't gone anywhere and they've lost very, very easy. No, no, I think the games they haven't won or they've lost, they have been by very small margins.

And this means that they have obviously after the time with the manager, with a lot of the same players, a clear idea, clear identity, different options depending on the players they choose. Also like us, they can move a little bit, the players, especially the ones behind Delap and tactically be a different team.

And it looks, I haven't played against them, they have a spirit.

This type of teams that they continue and the next one and the next one. And I think it's going to be a difficult challenge for us.

**AS: And on that challenge, what sort of tactical challenge are you expecting from them? Is it going to be particularly challenging with the short turnaround?**

AI: Yes, I think it's not a team that has only one kind of threat. They can use the forwards attacking the spaces.

They are good also combining inside. Sometimes they put more players inside. They have full backs who provide, especially Leif Davis, a big threat from the left.

So we will have to be aware of a lot of things like today and also trust our offensive players to hurt them because it's the key at the end.

**Jack Tanner (FC BCP): Last season there was a period where your away form was a lot stronger than your home form.**

**But throughout this campaign it's been fairly consistent. Does that give you confidence that you can win no matter where you're playing?**

AI: I think we've been very good at home considering the opposition we've had. We played a lot of top teams at home, difficult games.

And I think the amount of points we've got has been very, very good. But this is not a guarantee of anything. You have to try to compete wherever we play, whoever we play against.

And I think we are being competitive. I'm not confident, but I'm pleased because even if in the last losses, Brentford, Brighton, we've been good, we've been playing well.

We've been having more chances than them. So this gives me hope that we can keep this level more time.

**JT: Enes Unal missed pre-season with surgery. He's looked rusty in his minutes. Is it a case of that he needs a run of games, like starting games to get those minutes to look sharp coming off the bench?**

AI: All the players that are not playing, the best thing for them is to play a lot of games in a row starting.

But I don't have the luxury to do this. I have to choose, I only have 11 places.

And I think Enes has given us today a lot. Even if on the ball has lost the two balls at the end. I think he has given us breadth on the ball and also in the press because last minute, not only Enes, Philip, Dango, Brooks, especially the ones up front, Lewis Cook.

We finished against Spurs the last 10, 15 minutes, playing a lot of the time in their half. And this without the absolute honesty and work rate of the players up front is impossible. And I think they've all given me a lot.

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