Is Mazraoui still out, or is he likely to come back?
“No, maybe he is going to return next week, we will see. But he’s near, we are just finishing some drills with him to be sure that he’s not going to have another problem.”
Ruben, you’ve just mentioned that you weren’t prepared to play in Europe. Are you glad that you’ve got a bit more time to work with the team?
“Yeah, I said that last season. We need time to prepare every game. The games are really competitive, and we need time to build a base, and then, in the future, to move forward. And we’ll reach one moment where we need to have Europe for everybody to play games.”
Just a question on Altay Bayindir. I mean in the first half especially today, he was knocked over at least two or three times on corners. Do you think your defenders are doing enough to protect him and his area, to stop that from happening?
“Yeah, we are trying everything. But again, I know that you are focused a lot on the opponent’s corners, but if you remember this game – it was 10, 20 minutes ago – we had our chances. And we scored one goal [from] set pieces, we had a penalty, we had a least one in the end near the post. And you can see every game in the Premier League, tell me one game you didn’t see a big occasion from corners. So, I think that will happen in every game.”
Rasmus Hojlund wasn’t in the squad in this game. Do you consider him available for Tuesday, or, given the speculation, do you consider him not available?
“All the players are available. Then we will make the choice to get the best starting XI to win every game.”