[Phillips starts, Roberts out]
11.54am: Good morning from Thorp Arch
Marcelo Bielsa will be with us from 12 noon - other than the obvious need to return to winning ways, Tyler Roberts injury latest top of the list.
12.02pm: Here we go - team news first
"Phillips comes back to the team. He's always been an important player but in those three matches he wasn't there we could replace him without feat that he wasn't there. But always counting on him makes our team better."
On Brentford
Brentford are a team with good strikers and attackers, they build from midfield to attack, they have a compact defence where everybody is involved to defend and help each other.
Is this one of those games where big players need to step up?
The players have always been present in the matches. And of course the importance of the game is very clear.
Tyler Roberts out
He is not going to be able to play tomorrow. He took a strong kick. It's incredible with this kick that he continued in the match, he proved that he is really engaged with the team and he was a very brave player to continue playing. It's a kick in the calf but there is no injury, just a big kick.
What methods now
My method is describing the thing as I see the reality. I stay true to the players and I describe all thy have to transform this moment into a good one to get good results. I speak to them individually and collectively.
The message now?
I have explained before what I think about the matches where we lost points. And there is no reason to continue explaining that. But it's not about that, they don't do any more what they did before because the players are doing the same things they used to do when we have been in a good moment. There are good things the players are doing on the pitch and also mistakes, before maybe we didn't pay consequences for the mistakes in the good moments but now we are paying higher consequences. We used to create chances and score those chances in the good moments of the team and now we have those chances and we are not scoring. It's just about scoring the chances, the positive things the team used to do, we used to transform into good things and now we are not doing that. The team is not playing worst than before, the team is not running less, it's running even more and the team keeps the same confidence of before.
How do you stay confident?
They are private matters
Do you believe in not getting too high when winning and not too low when not?
That is not happening to us, when we have been in a good moment we didn't believe we would get something and now how everybody describes the team when we were in a good moment was never described like that for us. And negative evaluation of the team when things go wrong does not describe for us this way that everybody sees the team.
On other teams
Every team plays in the same way against us. We are used to playing the kind of games we have to play.
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Bielsa Press Conference: Pre-Brentford
posted on 10/2/20
Forshaw might be the most frustrating player in the last two decades.
posted on 10/2/20
On Augustin - another long one - basically he has worked very hard after being out and is feeling it, naturally
It was not a quick process because he keeps all the difficulties he has even more, he is increasing but after he completed options and I made the best choice I think. When you have to take the team player for one match or the 11 players that start the match, they are linked with the level of each player but also this decision is linked with the comparison of two players who play the same position. Maybe one player is not in his ideal level but maybe in one moment he is the best option because you compare the best possibilities of two players in one moment and then you compare and make a choice. If one player is not in his best physical performance, if one player is lacking of some stuff needed to compete, I have already explained that, this question I answer for a second time - no problem. But I know that when I give a long answer it bores a little bit. One player has natural physical qualities, but after this player this player has to develop those qualities to a highest point, to a minimum level but the minimum level has to be high to compete. He can get high values but he has to develop this. And of course and this is linked with everything, one example, the way, and everything. About the technical skill he has, Augustin has great skills but those qualities you have to show those in the game but maybe you can know how to do something but that doesn't mean you can do it immediately in the competition. I think you are asking this question and you know this answer because you have listened a lot of times. Players who demand to play a lot of minutes try to get the maximum level. Augustin in the last 7 or 8 months has played 3 matches, the conclusions are obvious, the objective of pre-season is this, you play matches where the match is not important and in those matches the player gets this level. In this moment results are very very important so we need to manage the level of players, giving minutes, trying for him to get more level but also avoiding to harm the team expecting that one player gets his best level. The other day he spent 20 minutes but that creates jokes, clear jokes like because I spent 20 minutes to answer question and now I repeat the same thing I said before so it is very difficult to feel the people who ask because you can listen to the last answer again of 20 minutes again but I didn't want to be rude. How the process is, you have ups and downs and you ask me in this short period if he improves and I say no but the training process is like this. But understand that if I give you answers and explanations then each time and after I listen to a lot of jokes. If I say yes or not, after maybe you don't like this because I answer with just one or two words and after what I say only everybody takes what sounds negative. That happened when one team is in a bad spell so the summary of this question, it's going to be that Augustin is worse now. It is the process of evolution but all the training processes of one player that didn't play for 8 months, he goes down to go up. If I deal with you ignorantly I can say something without a good argument, this is an answer with an argument, when you have to prepare a player who has not played for 8 months, it is totally natural. Everybody makes jokes about the explanations, it's not like I am looking down on people, I am just trying to transmit with humility things I am sure about.
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Anyone able to translate this?
Does it mean he's starting ...
posted on 10/2/20
sorry batty don't have time.
posted on 10/2/20
sigh..
what a set of bottle jobs we are
posted on 10/2/20
Bielsa T-1000
posted on 10/2/20
Good about Roberts.
Cant fault him if he continued playing with a big kick.
It's easy to fault him cause of his injuries but credit to him for playing on.
My translation on bielsa
Kev is not match for due to lack of game time.
If it was pre season I'd give him games in a non competitive situation to help build up his fitness.
Unfortunately I dont have that option and I need to get him fit so rather than through him in and risk an injury or the overall ability of the team to play we will work hard on getting him fot and give him game time to build up his fitness.
Sounds like he thinks he is a good player also
posted on 10/2/20
Cheers Sol..............nice of MB to clear things up for us
posted on 11/2/20
I wish the journos would get their teeth into Bielsa, they just seem to ask the same questions week after week. There must be some kind of protocol about what they can ask, because Bielsa gets off very lightly.
I would love to hear that he asked players how they were doing, what they think we need to do, what would help them to get back into winning ways again.
All he says is that he talked to the players individually after the game. Maybe the translation doesn't help here, but sitting down with Bielsa and a translator while he rattles off a philosophy lesson isn't going to motivate anyone.
posted on 11/2/20
comment by All the Bielsa ringing (U19827)
posted 12 minutes ago
I wish the journos would get their teeth into Bielsa, they just seem to ask the same questions week after week. There must be some kind of protocol about what they can ask, because Bielsa gets off very lightly.
I would love to hear that he asked players how they were doing, what they think we need to do, what would help them to get back into winning ways again.
All he says is that he talked to the players individually after the game. Maybe the translation doesn't help here, but sitting down with Bielsa and a translator while he rattles off a philosophy lesson isn't going to motivate anyone.
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Mooney, the communications officer will not allow the press to speak to certain players nor ask certain questions. No one from local press wants to get banned, but Mooney fawns all over national press, winter in particular.
posted on 11/2/20
I have you down to lose this 2-1
kiss bye bye to automatic promotion if you do...