So how much was that, again, football today, and how much was that a pure fight out there between the two sides? SIGHS

Yes, I think it's fair to say it was not the nicest piece of football today, but you know, on a warm, nice, sunny Saturday afternoon, everyone can play proper football.

We had a difficult training week, many key players also overnight, also key players out.

Then to play here, a difficult away game at a home ground, who was desperate to get more or less an important win for them.

The weather conditions were horrendous and today it was more like to dig in and grind out a result to show steel because the curves of the balls were difficult to predict.

I think you could see in our possession that we didn't have the easiest training week because many key players were out, some of them not even available for the starting line-up and we had to do many changes I think.

in terms of how we normally create chances, play our processes.

Having said that, you very much stayed in the game and right at the end, you had a couple of openings.

I mean, what's your assessment of the performance overall and the result, ultimately?

It's a bit difficult to describe the emotions.

First of all, congratulations to Arsenal.

It's down to the mentality Mikkel has created here, that even on a tough day they find a way to win the game.

This is what they did today and congratulations to their quality and this mentality as well.

My emotions are mixed of course, I'm heartbroken and gutted for my players because they deserve to travel back with points today and after such a really good away performance to have to travel back without any points is tough and for that of course I'm disappointed especially for them but on the other hand also very proud on what was a top away performance and I think the first half was only On a really good level, we didn't allow any chances, it was more the other way around, we looked more dangerous.

I told them at half-time, listen, if we keep going and have a bit more clarity and belief in our offensive actions, we will win this game.

you would establish yourselves really well in the first half and then towards the end of the half, Al got a yellow card, Ethan got a yellow card, you got a yellow card and went in for afters with the fourth official as well.

What does that look like, the foundations? Is it, is it messaging? Is it, is it tactics? What are you emphasizing in this moment?

All together.

Um, of course, you need, uh, to, to work on your, on your, um, physical endurance, on your strength.

Um, it's a pretty important, um, moment for being physically prepared for a long season.

Uh, also to integrate, uh, especially the new players.

Um, lots of tactical work.

Also, like tactical tweaks and details work because during the season, sometimes you don't have that much time with so many games.

You said his own professional secret to balancing all the instruments was, quote, "He doesn't disturb my musicians while they're playing music." And I'm interested, how do you find the balance between coaching, managing your players, controlling your players, and knowing when to step back just to let them cook?

How proud are you of the fight the team showed tonight?

Yes, very proud because sometimes during a long season there's also a game that you don't just win with your football quality and dominating each and every moment.

Sometimes you have to show steel, especially in a difficult away game.

Tottenham back-to-back wins here, important home game for them with a difficult week.

Important players are out, and, and had to play also today some players out of position.

Then once you go one-nil down, uh, after, after this first half, and then early in the second half can be very difficult, and sometimes you can crumble.

Not us.

How, how difficult, how challenging was it to, to deal with that? 'Cause they had a few opportunities.

Noah Okafor did after five minutes, Jamie, and you have to say at that moment, Manchester United just looked stunned.

They did, and listen, we, we know Leeds came into, to the game, they sort of, you know, last season they played five-four-one, but actually in the buildup, we can see it's almost like a back four in this one.

Players just getting in between positions and lines.

That obviously difficult for Manchester United to pick up, but I just felt some of the football from Leeds in that first half is absolutely outstanding, and I think that would worry the teams near the bottom as much as the result.

That was a confident performance coming to, right now, the most in-form team at home in the Premier League.

And when you were looking at it, in that first half, it felt like Leeds were the team who were in the Champions League positions and Manchester United were the team fighting relegation.

That's how big the contrast was, and it didn't flatter them at all, and that goal just sums up them up, really.

How do you see the way that your team had managed that second half, managed to keep hold of those three very vital points despite what happened?