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🧵 Quotes thread Blank Gameweek 36 [Saturday]

🇦🇷 Leeds

📢 Marcelo Bielsa post-match: "Pablo [Hernandez] had a small knock that is not important. And we didn't want to take the risk, as we play on Tuesday, that he..."

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📢 Bielsa post-match: "...couldn't play then. And [Robin] Koch has a small knock in his hip and he could have played but we preferred not to risk him. The same with Pablo."

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📢 Bielsa asked when he decided that Kalvin Phillips and Raphinha were ready to start vs Burnley: "We constantly evaluate all the training sessions and it's not difficult to perceive a player. Apart from that, they are..."

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📢 Bielsa asked when he decided that Phillips and Raphinha were ready to start vs Burnley: "...players who have played a lot during the campaign and have been regular."

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📢 Bielsa on Rodrigo: "Rodrigo is a player like the one you defined [question about world-class finishing]. He is at a very high level. One of the strikers for the Spanish national team and..."

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📢 Bielsa on Rodrigo: "...the Spanish national team is a powerhouse. He's a player, like I said before, that takes a while to get to his full form. When he finally finds his full form, he's a player that's very unbalancing."

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📢 Bielsa on taking Patrick Bamford off for Rodrigo: "Rodrigo drops deep a bit more than Bamford, in the beginning of the second half we needed to link the defence with the attack more."

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📢 Bielsa on Leeds' physical condition: "You can verify that [we are fit] by looking at the data. I never thought that [we wouldn't be]. It would have worried me if we had finished the season in physical decline."

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🪱 Burnley

📢 Sean Dyche on Nick Pope: "He has a niggly knee, it needs to settle down. He has a maybe chance for Wednesday [against Liverpool] and a better chance for Sunday [vs Sheffield United]."

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📢 Dyche on substituting Chris Wood and Matej Vydra: "Absolutely tactical, they have put so much effort into it lately. We know they've been playing very well. Two of the lads [Jay Rodriguez and Ashley Barnes]..."

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📢 Dyche on substituting Wood and Vydra: "...need game time and we need to keep them [Rodriguez and Barnes] sharp.

"The game, there was a sign we might get something, but it was getting away from us really and..."

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📢 Dyche on substituting Wood and Vydra: "...I have to protect the players, because we can't put them at risk of injury. I think them two [Wood and Vydra], in particular, have put a lot into recent performances."

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📢 Dyche asked if Leeds result will impact Bailey Peacock-Farrell's confidence: "These are the challenges for keepers. He is aware of the challenge of being in the Premier League and that next step for his..."

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📢 Dyche on Peacock-Farrell: "...development. You have to go through the fire and experience these events to learn as a keeper and progress, so it is how he deals with that as well..."

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📢 Dyche on Peacock-Farrell: "...he's developed off the pitch, in the way he has gone about it and physically developed. The challenge [of] game time is the next challenge for the next step, as it is for any..."

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📢 Dyche on Peacock-Farrell: "...player but particularly when you are a keeper, because it is a very individual role. Even the challenge of conceding and learning how to deal with that."

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🇦🇹 Southampton

📢 Ralph Hasenhuttl on taking Danny Ings off: "I only did what my head of physio asked me to do. He said 60 minutes, maximum. And I am a good follower, a good [listener]."

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📢 Hasenhuttl on Nathan Tella: "Sometimes he sprints more in 20 minutes than others in 90 minutes. This is an important season for him. We tried to give him game time. The way we've tried to develop him is a good one..."

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📢 Hasenhuttl on Tella: "...he's the biggest talent we have at the moment. He had a bad injury. I see him performing like he does at the moment, I enjoy watching it. A big praise for the academy."

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📢 Hasenhuttl on Che Adams: "His statistics for the season we have spoken about and he could have much more goals. But he always works hard for the team, the more he scores the more he deserves to play..."

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📢 Hasenhuttl on Adams: "...because he hasn't always had it easy but this year he has had a bit of a breakthrough."

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🔲 Fulham

📢 Scott Parker: "[Southampton's first was a] poor goal to concede. It looked like we missed a header and then there was confusion. The second goal, we defended very poorly and didn't follow runners."

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🔨 West Ham

📢 David Moyes on Declan Rice: "I thought he did OK. Just OK for me because I know the standard he's got and what a good player he is. Very pleased to get him back because we have missed him."

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📢 Moyes on Brighton draw: "We did not do enough in the final third, I thought our decision making in the final third was poor but overall I thought we played very well..."

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📢 Moyes: "...the play in the final third, or the final decision, has not been good enough [in recent games].

"I think our decision making too often [against Brighton] wasn't the right choice, or we did not show enough..."

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📢 Moyes: "...quality in the pass which we had to make, so quite often it was the decision making I felt.

"We didn’t make a good enough final pass or we didn’t make enough contact when we had a chance to score."

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🌉 Chelsea

📢 Thomas Tuchel on playing Reece James in central defence: "Reecey played in the back three and we put Azpi [Cesar Azpilicueta] up higher. They changed position because we know about the..."

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📢 Tuchel on playing James in a back three: "...favourite position of Jamie Vardy in transition and we wanted to have Reecey’s power, Reecey’s acceleration and top speed against him to eliminate this threat..."

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📢 Tuchel on James in back three: "...he did fantastic today. On the same side, we wanted to have Azpi a bit higher because with his experience and character he takes a bit more risk than Reecey in the last line."

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