Read every word from the broadcast section of Iraola’s press conference here.
**Jeremy Langdon (Sky Sports News): Are there any fresh injury or illness issues after tomorrow?**
Andoni Iraola: No, I don't think we’ve had any new injuries during the week and the players that were available, past week will be available this week also.
**JL: How good is it to have Zabarnyi back for this game.**
AI: Yeah, really nice for me to have the options.
I think the club, not the team, has done well without him, but it's always an extra to have a player like Zaba and I hope also for him, personally some rest, a player that normally never rests has been good for him.
**JL: Julian Araujo, is he going to be involved in the squad this weekend?**
AI: Yeah, I think Julian, and I would put Marcos almost in the same package if you want, they've been cleared to train with us.
They've gone to Finland with the surgeon. They are doing well and they have started training with us and it's going to be now a matter of the feelings, the shape, when we think they are ready to play with the team.
But yeah, I think both are on the right path.
**JL: So obviously frustration at Tottenham last week, one win now in the last five in the Premier League.**
**Is it time to get the show back on the road?**
AI: Yeah, we want to get a win. Obviously, you always want to win on the weekend, but I think we are playing really well. I'm happy how the team has performed, last two games.
Brighton, Tottenham away, even if we include the cup game against Wolves, we've played well, but now it's a matter of getting the results, finding ways to win.
And I think we are in a place that we are better than we look, if you only look to the results, because the other day against Spurs, I think we played really well and you feel like one point is not what you want.
But I hope we continue with this level of performance and obviously find ways to make it valuable and win the game.
**JL: So you're ninth in the table, there are 10 games left. What do you want from the final 10 games and where do you want to finish?**
AI: We will try to finish as high as we can. I don't know where this will be.
I think we have to continue being competitive and try to get points from every game. Home, away. I think our home games are going to be very important because I think we have six home games, four away games.
So now I think we are playing, also counting the cup, three straight games at home. So I think we have to be strong and especially second parts of the season when you play at home, I think this extra that we need. I hope we can take points
**JL: What about Brentford? They've beaten you already this season.**
**Bournemouth have never beaten Brentford in the Premier League and Brentford have won four straight games on the road. So what kind of problem is this?**
AI: No, they don't look nice stats, to play a game against them.
But I don't trust too much in the previous seasons. Previous year, different teams. We can use probably the reference of the game we lost there, 3-2.
Also another game where I don't think we should finish with zero points. But the truth is we finished with zero points that day.
I think it was a very open game, chances for both teams. I remember even last second the crossbar from Dean, I think.
They are always a threat. They score a lot of goals. It is true that they have conceded also goals.
So very similar to the last games we played, against Brighton, against Spurs. Probably quite an open game, chances for both sides. I hope we can control the game and win it.
**JL: Bill Foley's been talking on the radio this week and says he's going to come and meet you soon to talk about a new contract. What are you going to tell him?**
AI: We'll see when he comes. I think he's going to come, I think in April or something like this.
And it was the last news I had. Like every time he comes, we'll be talking, it's a pleasure for me. And we will talk obviously with him first.
**JL: But he says Thiago Pinto is talking with your agent already. Do you want to stay on longer at Bournemouth?**
AI: For me, you know how I feel about the situations, about the contracts. I'm very calm.
I have a contract next year, for me it's a situation that I'm more used almost to finish the season without a contract and then decide what to do next season. So this season is more like more relaxed in that way than previous season that I've had.
And definitely we will talk with the club like we do because we have good relationships.
**JL: Sure, I understand that. Just finally on Bill Foley though, he was saying, obviously you're moving to a new training ground, he's going to expand the stadium.**
**Do those things make Bournemouth more attractive to you?**
AI: I don't think it's a matter of if it's attractive for me or not. I think it's a matter of progressing as a club. I think it's very good for the club, for the players, for the supporters that the club is taking steps forward.
I think the new training ground, I don't know when we are going to move, it looks like it's quite close and everyone is really asking questions and wants to know and how it feels and I think it's going to be like a spark of energy also when we move there, the players see like I'm sure it's going to be a nice facility and we've been following it during the works and you start imagining how it's going to look and looks really nice.
I think it's going to be good and an extra energy maybe for these last games of the season for the players.
**Paul Belverstone (Premier League Productions): Talking of extra energy, have you seen a spring in the step of Illia now that his time is over this week?**
AI: Zaba is always training well, I think he's always focused. He does what he needs to do. Probably mentally, let's take it in a positive way.
It's been good for him to, a little bit, take some days with less pressure, more relaxed and then try to finish the season, these 10 games, plus the cup, plus the national team because he plays every time with all the teams and probably we would definitely have preferred to have him past games, but in a positive way also, probably it was a good break for him.
**PB: Have you seen any change in him? He's a young man. He was obviously disappointed with the red card and then to train without a chance of playing. I imagine it can affect a young man.**
AI: No, he trains very well. I think he's very used every day to do whatever is needed. Probably has trained a little bit more relaxed.
But sometimes you train relaxed and you train better because you are less worried. And they were joking with him he has scored more goals than Eva \[Evanilson\] probably these past weeks because probably you train without the pressure of having to perform next day.
But I hope he gives the level that he normally gives. That is very high.
**PB: In terms of players who could do with a rest. You told us last week about Ryan Christie. I wonder your thoughts on him being called up for Scotland.**
AI: Ryan Christie is very honest. He's very honest and he wants to play every time, every minute. He wants to go with the national team and it's not going to be a matter of him choosing when to play or I think if he can play, he will go with the national team.
If he can play with us, he will play with us. If he cannot play with us, he will not play with us. If he cannot play with the national team, he will not play with the national team.
But he will try because he's so honest. Sometimes I tell even in the pitch they make nasty fouls to him and a little bit of pain and probably other players, they will be complaining much more and he just wants to play. And if he can and even if he suffers, he will try to go with the national team, I have no doubt.
**PB: Is that not a headache for you? Do you not want to lean on him and say, just have a week off?**
AI: I understand him. Probably there are interests from our side as a club but I think it’s the player the one who has to decide. He has, we know, a chronic issue. He's dealing, I think, really well.
I think he played really well the other day against Spurs and I hope he can continue to manage it the same way. I'm sure if you ask him, he wants to go with the national team and he has a chance and they call him, he will be ready for them. Because also I know that he values a lot the national team. He has been there for a lot of years and it's too honest the player to think in other things.
**PB: Jeremy mentioned Brentford's recent away form. When you played them at home, they had an almost immaculate home record and were pretty terrible away.**
**Now they've flipped it. So, you know, more unfortunate luck, I suppose. But also when you've been watching them, what have they changed to flip that record? Or is it just standard and type of opposition?**
AI: There is a big part that is the schedule.
I think they were facing the big teams away in the first part of the season. So it's difficult to get wins from those big teams away, now probably it has changed the schedule.
Now they have to play opposite and I think the schedule still in the Premier League is very important because it's always difficult, the games, but especially when you face the top teams, it's even more difficult. But it's true that it's a dangerous team. It's a dangerous team.
They have a team that works together because they've been with the same coach for a lot of seasons. So they have all the small things already in their heads and they take advantage of every small thing that you don't do properly. And we have to be very focused.
They manage very well, the rhythm of the game. Sometimes they stop the game, sometimes they want to play more, these things, small things that at the end are efficient. I think they do it smartly.
**PB: Thomas Frank picked out the Kerkez Mbeumo battle as something that he's looking forward to seeing, that's key. Do you agree with that?**
AI: It's going to be a nice battle.
Yes, it's going to be nice. Definitely two very good players that are performing very well this season with a lot of energy quality. Yes, I think it's going to be a nice battle.
I hope Milos is good enough because it's going to be very demanding because Mbeumo is a top player for me. But I also trust Milos. I think he's in a good moment and it's going to be a nice battle.
I agree. There are going to be other battles also nice and difficult for us, but I hope it's the same for them also
**PB: And in the game at their place, you scored with a wonderful corner routine.**
**How long does it take to put one of those together? Is it a case of sort of 20 minutes? Is it a full training session? Is it weeks? What is it? And have you got another one lined up?**
AI: Yeah. Every team prepares routines, but especially we are not the tallest in the Premier League. We are quite a short team, I would say. We don't have so many players as threats, especially in offensive corners.
So we have to prepare for better scenarios for us. Brentford are also a very good team in set plays and we have to be ready defensively. They scored a throw in there, I remember.
And they've scored, I think three of these kinds of goals that probably against other opposition is not as important, but against Brentford it's always small details. Even kickoffs, they've scored some goals from kickoffs. So set plays, definitely, is always important against Brentford and for the players, it doesn't take a lot of time.
It's more for the staff to analyse every opposition, the setup where we can find the weaknesses after the players are the ones who execute well, don't execute well. I think takers are the key normally in the set plays. But it's definitely a part that is very important against Brentford because they prepare it very well and I hope we also do it.