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DF: Delighted for Teemu. He totally deserves it. His goals, performances have been brilliant. He can handle the praise, he is very humble.

DF: We have a tricky situation against the one of the best teams in the world in terms of injuries. We have to handle it.

DF: We have to control the ball in many periods tomorrow. We can't defend for 90 minutes. We must be disciplined and bring our style onto the game.

DF: I don't want to interpretate much into the fixtures. We know we have played some top teams so far, three of the best teams in the world. In all games so far, we have been competitive and we can take many positives.

DF: Timm Klose doesn't need surgery. It won't reduce his time out. He is out for 9 months but could be 1-2 months less.

DF: Zimmermann is out until January. His ligaments are okay but it's a complicated injury.

DF: Grant Hanley is not available for the starting line-up tomorrow. He is back on the training pitch today and he could play 20/30 minutes tomorrow.

DF: Tom Trybull is out. He damaged his ligaments against West Ham. He won't come back before the next international break.

DF: Patrick Roberts is ineligible. Moritz Leitner is out with his calf. He hasn't trained for 2 weeks.

DF: Mario Vrancic is not available for tomorrow, he has a calf strain. Max Aarons is also out, he could be back after the next international break.

DF: Ben Godfrey came back with a groin strain from international and is a major doubt for tomorrow. It will be a short-term decision.

DF: Tim Krul is a minor doubt for tomorrow. I may have to name three goalkeepers in the squad.

DF: Zimmermann doesn't need surgery but will need to wear a boot for a while. It's a strange injury.

DF: Sometimes when you have many muscle injuries, you have to look at doing something different in training. But these injuries are so unlucky. We cannot complain too much. We won't cry, it's tricky, but we will try to search for some solutions.

DF: We have to be positive. Every lad in this dressing room is needed. There will be a few debuts tomorrow.
I'm thinking Adam Idah could be in the squad tomorrow.

DF: We spoke before the season that we have to climb Mount Everest without tools. This game is one of the toughest challenges you can get. We showed against Liverpool that we could compete. We were close to a good result.

DF: We need the supporters, especially with so many young lads in our sqaud. There will be difficult times. We need to stick together.

DF: We have to be precise in our pressing and gain possession a lot. We need to be good in possession as well.

DF: There are no gifts. We will give chances to young players, Adam Idah could get a chance tomorrow because he deserves it. We won't bring young lads in when they aren't prepared.

DF: Some lads are nervous - you can tell. It's normal and it's up to me to give them some trust and confidence. We should go into the game with nothing to lose. I will back my lads whatever happens tomorrow.

DF: I want them to be brave. They should have no regrets.

DF: I like Pep's playing philosophy. It's perfect and they have world-class players - when that comes together, you will be successful. They are a classy club.

DF: We can play with a back three. I would have liked to have played a back three a bit in pre-season but we couldn't because we had so many injuries.

DF: My prediction will be 3-3, which I feel realistically greedy.

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That's all from the press conference, stay across all our channels for build up to the match.

Posted By: DrDublin on September 13th 2019 at 13:58:45

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