> “We need to improve. We can’t concede two goals like that. We played a bad game; we were lacking in every aspect. We need to be self-critical and get our act together,” he added.
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> “Flick brought his philosophy with him, and it’s the one we’ve been practicing all these years. From the outside, it might seem risky, but I think both the manager’s idea and ours is to all pull together, following his ideas, because we saw that it worked well for us last season. Yes, sometimes we have to tweak a few things, but that’s normal. I think we’re doing things right, and we have to keep going down this path.
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> “As I said, from the outside it looks like a risk, and if someone isn’t connected it doesn’t work, but in important matches we have to be as involved as possible in the game to try and make things go well because that’s the manager’s philosophy and we’re fully behind him.”