Mario Melchiot
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No, I never experienced it because, you know, like, but I think, you know, look, the situation for me when I looked at it, when I looked at the game, I think that, I think Robert mentioned that, I think something else must have happened before because they look very heated.
prior to whatever happened in the situation, regardless if you make it because mistakes happen in the game.
But one of the things is, well, like, you know, like, Greg, maybe you don't agree with it, but I don't agree with someone just grabbing me and just shoving me away.
It never happened to me in my career.
So that's why I said it, because I would not allow someone just randomly do that to me.
Yeah, but you know, when you play a team like that, turns up at your ground, you understand, and you have a chance to get fourth, you've got to turn up totally different.
I think the way they played it, I think, OK, they sit down, they defend, they wait, but there were moments even in the second half, there was a moment in the second half, Everton kept passing the ball around, and then winning the second ball again?
I was like, wow, do you want to win the game or you just want to give it up?
And then he tries, you understand, every time his teams get stretched, they get a problem.
Because he knows that in the middle of the park, if they open up and they stretch the team open, the guys in the middle cannot keep up with whatever is facing them.
And that's why I felt like sometimes, you know, Casemiro and Fernandes, because Casemiro wants to, he's more the attacking one of the two.
And then Casemiro, the ground that he has to cover,
is bigger than when he was at the top of his career.
So when that happens to him, they look exposed.
And I think that was definitely, you know, one of the relevant things that was happening.