Jürgen Klinsmann
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But I think, you know, these cup games, they're very, they're different.
They're different to the normal league games.
And when you have a situation like that, you go into the second leg, you have to go down.
As you guys say, rightfully say, is you need to have urgency from the first minute on and not just maybe the last 15, 20 minutes when you run out of time and you badly need this, desperately need this goal.
And that was lacking throughout the entire game, I think.
I think, you know, when you see certain cup competitions, you know, they played in Germany, they played in Italy now and obviously in England.
Some teams do not recognize the urgency that really cup ties request.
You know, there's no other game behind that after that game.
If you lose that game, you're out, you're out, you're done.
You cannot correct it on an upcoming weekend like in a league game.
And there you see some performances from certain teams all over Europe where this urgency is not there and they then rightfully so leave the competition.
I mean, I've done that quite some time with my teams.
And it's, yeah, it's a bit about confidence.
You know, you want to signal the opponent, hey, you know, whatever you do, you know, you can fill the six yard box now with all the guys you have.
We leave people out there and we're right at you.
And no, it's a little bit of a mental game that you play with each other.