– Do I look tired? I’m a little tired because it’s the first match like this in my career. 120 minutes with such demands, Champions League, departure, a lot of suffering, but huge thanks to the team that suffered, that ran, that fought and we will advance to the semi-finals.
– Did I talk to Kepa and Llopis before the penalties? Did I feel good about Bernardo Silva and Kovacić? Did Rüdiger tell me something? What did these preparations look like? Well, all those left to shoot penalties are getting ready. We had to take a risk with one, we chose one and luckily it worked out well.
– Is this about Bernardo? Yes.
– That one of them will shoot in the middle anyway? Yes, there were three options to stay, but in the end we chose one.
– From the 30th minute it was a real test of survival for us? Well, during the break I said that sometimes there are matches where you have to suffer, you have to overcome. You can’t always play with the ball, you can’t always be the better team on the pitch, but today’s match is, above all, a great experience for me. And the team, as I said earlier, made a huge effort, working like that for 120 minutes. I can’t imagine running like that for even 5 minutes.
– Is everyone having contractions now? Yes, but it’s normal, it’s a great credit to the team.
– Fede named player of the match? Did Rüdgier tell me where Kovačić would shoot, or did I know about it in advance? Well, the man of the match today is the team. As for Kovacić, we talked about all the players. The coach helped me, my friends helped me, everyone helped me and in the end I had to choose.
– And I chose well? Well, we all chose well.
