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Matt Phillips

Matt Phillips

Footballer

Nov 1, 2026

MartinHOST
4:21
So, Matt, when you say town could have been out of sight on another day, how much? How much of it is Town not being ruthless enough or not creating enough? And how much of it is just football decisions not falling their way when they perhaps should?
4:33
I think for this game, I think probably footballing decisions.
4:37
And you can go into the second half for the trip of Mendy on Emerson in the box, which should have been a pen as well.
4:44
Absolutely.
4:44
Because that's exactly the same kind of challenge Tino did down their end for the free kick that puts them in the lead.
4:51
I think we were very hard done by on the O'Shea shirt pull.
4:53
He's manhandled Matt.

22 MINS LATER

MartinHOST
27:06
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MartinHOST
6:53
And are we seeing something approaching a blueprint? Matt, when you look at the Gary O'Neill preseason, what sort of characteristics are you seeing from us when we have the ball, when we don't have the ball? What does a Gary O'Neill team look like to you so far?
7:05
Certainly, when we've got the ball, we are getting it up top in great numbers.
7:10
You're seeing the attacking midfielder, whether that's Tino or Nunes, dropping between the two centre-backs to get the ball rolling.
7:19
That's new.
7:19
We've not seen that previously with McKenna.
7:21
I mean, it sounds weird, doesn't it? The attacking midfielder dropping deep in order to get the attack rolling.
7:28
But you saw that quite nicely with Nunes yesterday.

17 MINS LATER

MartinHOST
24:40
The player I think we've signed, I'm not quite sure on, but come November, I'll be saying, yeah, I get it now.

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