Jose Mourinho
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and I also like collectively.
We lost because we didn't score and we had great chances to score before them.
They had the lucky of that goal.
We didn't score before them.
Just that a part of that
I cannot demand more from players that don't play one minute of football in the past seven weeks.
I think Jones, Smalling, Mata, they were amazing the way they performed after seven weeks of being out.
The kid, the same.
The kid, the same.
I think he did an amazing job and I think Alexis knows his name because the kid really played very well.
and other players trying to do everything.
Difficult for me to manage the game because in the end the players that I want to replace are the players that in principle start the game on Thursday so difficult to manage it but I think the team was good, was organised, tried to win, played to win, defended well and Arsenal was not better than us in my opinion.
They scored, they won, congratulations.
I fear that they couldn't play for 90 minutes.
And I fear that my changes, instead of being to change Herrera, Mkhitaryan, players that played 90 minutes in Vigo, I fear that I had to change
Players like Matt Jones and Smalling, they were fantastic.
I think this game is a blessing for them.
To play 90 minutes is fantastic because now we have three Premier League matches plus the semi-final.
Let's hope one more game to play.
We need everybody and these 90 minutes are fantastic for them and it's good for the team.