Michael Carrick

Yes, I don't want to get carried away with all that DNA kind of thing.

We wanted to play well today.

We wanted to put things into the game that we felt would help us do that.

We certainly want to be good defensively as a whole team.

We felt that we had a threat when we had the ball on transition at times as well, but actually when we did have the ball, I thought we looked dangerous.

So all round, it's an easy thing to say, we couldn't ask for any more.

The boys give absolutely everything in so many ways.

Three days to prepare, little bits of information here and there.

They took everything on board tactically and then emotionally were able to deal with it exactly like we hoped for, really, and to feel that like we did towards the end.

the whole place I said yesterday it's a magic place and it certainly was today and we all felt that So tactically how did you do it?

Yeah obviously I'm not going to say too much with respect It's done now Michael Yeah but respect it kind of with Pep and he's such an unbelievable incredible coach and he's such a good team that it's not for me to pick them apart kind of publicly but

Yeah, I think we wanted to play to our strengths.

We needed to be compact, we needed distances to be as short as possible between the units and between positions, and we needed to move as a team, and I thought largely we did that.

A few times it got a little bit opened up,

We still looked in just on our front line.

I thought the front four, the two wide lads, Ahmad and Parth, I thought were fantastic both ways.

And then Brian and Bruno and Mateo's coming on making a difference and Mason coming on again and nearly getting the goal.

I just thought in general everything was what we would hope for and hence getting a good result.

you've had football doesn't give you many perfect days was that almost as perfect as you get as close to it yeah I think it's as much as we could have as close as we could have hoped for you know to be honest coming into the game the change is not easy change is not easy for anyone but to then have to perform on the back of it is but I've got I've had a real sense for the last few days and especially before the game how much the players were desperate desperate want to to have that feeling and want to and want to give and

success and a feeling to the supporters.