on going a goal down...
"I feel it's a little bit a repetition of what we have
seen until now. The game cost us a lot of energy and the team gave
us absolutely everything up until the last minute. When you play a
team who defends so well it's very important that we learn some
ingredients that are very important to be successful at the top
level - it's not to give goals away, to be patient and to be
much more rigorous defensively than we were today."
on Henry starting on the bench...
"Well, they didn't ask when we won at Manchester United.
He didn't start because he was tired from the France game. It
was my decision. You cannot play Sunday, Wednesday, Saturday,
Tuesday. It's impossible for one man."
on the injury to Robin van Persie...
"His foot doesn't look good. We have to see what is coming
out on the X-ray. Just now I don't know, but it looks like he
will be out on Tuesday night."
on the title race...
"You cannot drop as many points as we do at home. But I feel
there's a lot of potential in this team and you feel that it
will come out. They have a good spirit, good mentality and they
want really to do well. But we have to learn some important
ingredients in the game that make the team successful at the top,
top level. At the moment we do not master that. You cannot give the
goal away like we do it every time and not be punished. We just
make it difficult for ourselves."
