_Ange was asked about the importance of having a semi-final (against Liverpool) to look look forward to..._
Ange: "We're in a semi-final of a cup competition, so I think that's something to reflect this progress for us and we've got an opportunity now, home and away, to get to a final, and we've earned that opportunity. It's one to look forward to, but we've got important games starting this week, Sunday (Liverpool at home in the Premier League), that we've still got to get through and the mentality the boys are showing at the moment, we're going to tackle these games in the same way we've tackled the ones in recent times."
_Is this a reward for their mentality of fighting through this period?_
Ange: "Yeah, absolutely, because you do. I mean, it's one thing to kind of fight and show determination and me praising them, but they need the rewards as well of winning, how that makes you feel, because then you can get them to dip into the well again because they know that good things can happen."
Philosophy
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_It was put to Ange, 'as you've explained before at length that you think playing from the back suits your team and why you should persist with it, what's going through your mind when not just one but two errors like that come up?'_
Ange: "Look, fair to say in 26 years there's been a few of them, but I've always felt the pros well outweigh the cons of those kind of things, and those moments are rare, but when they happen, obviously, you know, they kind of stand out and tonight there were obviously two, and like I said I think the first one sort of affected Fraser for that next period. For us, I don't think we could be the team we are, if we didn't maintain our conviction around our beliefs. I know people will say, 'well, just don't take any risks' and all that sort of stuff, but then we wouldn't be scoring four goals and five goals. I mean, it's the hardest thing in the game to do, score goals, and we're doing it with bare bones of a squad. I think it's a massive credit to this group of players that we're performing at that level."
Timo Werner
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_Ange was asked about Timo Werner's absence from the matchday squad..._
Ange: "He was sick. It's just the way we're going. He woke up this morning with a fever and the doctor went and saw him, he had a high fever and we had to rule him out, unfortunately, so it's just the way things are."
How it's going...
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_It was put to Ange that Timo's illness summed up our current injury situation..._
Ange: "Pretty much, yeah. I don't roll up to game day looking for good news, let me tell you! So, yeah, it's just incredible. Like I said, this is 10 players off a senior list, and it's just ridiculous, and the fact that we're still putting in these levels of performance with guys, Archie, Djed, these kind of guys, I mean, we're getting, I believe, some real enormous growth in this period that maybe won't be evident until down the track, but I just think there's there's so much sort of good stuff in there at the moment, even though it's a tough period still."