{"id":176737,"date":"2025-10-03T05:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T05:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/176737\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T05:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T05:14:08","slug":"talking-points-nuno-on-settling-in-getting-down-to-work-and-saturdays-arsenal-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/176737\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking Points | Nuno on settling in, getting down to work and Saturday\u2019s Arsenal test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Focused on the fans<\/p>\n<p>We want to bring the fans closer to us. They were there in Liverpool (against Everton on Monday night), and the help they gave us was amazing.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully that happens again on Saturday. We know they\u2019ll be there supporting us, but it\u2019s up to us to give them something back.<\/p>\n<p>The bond between the team and the fans is really important. When they have the help of the fans, the boys feel free and they feel joy, so we want to make sure we are giving something to them.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Eyes on Arsenal<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m thinking only about tomorrow. We still have one session to go [on Friday], so we\u2019re focused on preparing for a tough match.<\/p>\n<p>We go there with a good record, that gives us confidence, but it\u2019s a totally different game now and new things will happen.<\/p>\n<p>We know we are facing a very good opponent, with a good manager, but I think it\u2019s going to be a good test for us.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Stopping set-piece danger<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a problem that we have to solve. We\u2019ve been working on it, and I think we improved in the last game, but it\u2019s definitely something we\u2019re trying to address.<\/p>\n<p>Nowadays, set-pieces have a huge impact on the game. We have good headers of the ball, it\u2019s just about adjusting the flow of the timing and defending.<\/p>\n<p>We know Saturday will be a good test in this area, but we are working on it.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Delighted for Kilman<\/p>\n<p>When you look back, you see how far he has come. It\u2019s 200 [senior club] games already for Max, and I\u2019m delighted for him.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s an important member of our squad. He knows how we approach things, what sort of work ethic we want in training and how we face the competition. He\u2019s been very helpful for us so far, and I\u2019m really pleased for him.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eticketing.co.uk\/whufc\/EDP\/Event\/Index\/1960?utm_source=whufc&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=newcastle_nov25&amp;utm_content=article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Focused on the fans We want to bring the fans closer to us. They were there in Liverpool&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-176737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}