“In football, in our case, we don’t talk about ‘we wanted it last year 100% and this year was only 80%’, he continued.
“The boys wanted it 100% but maybe only put in 97%, but not consciously, just in these decisive moments.
“Because things didn’t work out right. Some players had to play too early, some players were new, some players were young and all these kinds of things.
“All of a sudden a well drilled team didn’t work together anymore, but not willingly, just because one was like ‘can I really push up?’ and the other one was already there.
“Pressing doesn’t work like this. You commit to pressing and you do it. You don’t press or you only defensive press around your own box, fine, but you have to commit to a common plan. And it only works if everyone feels the same.
“And that might have been the problem, that we were not all in the same place in that moment, that we all had the same confidence level for doing these things. Because we all had different solutions for the same problem.”