You could forgive him for not doing so at the minute. He faces the very real prospect of going up against the best team in the Premier League right now with arguably his three best players missing. The Spaniard won’t allow himself to get down about it though.
“It gives me zero for the next moment, the next day, the next preparation,” he said in his pre-match press conference. “It just takes things out of me. If it takes things out of me, it takes things out of the staff because they are close to me. If it takes things out of the staff, it’s then the players. Then your belief? Throw it away.”
