“I had to recover to be able to analyze this match properly. There were so many plot twists that it’s almost impossible to say what was or wasn’t deserved. In the end, I have the impression that we deserved to win.”
Slot concluded that it had also become a great football evening in De Kuip thanks to Marseille. “Our home games are always fun to watch and offensive. But to make it a really fun game, you need two teams. And generally at home we meet another team that defends extremely and chooses to play the long ball. Marseille opted extremely for building up, which they are good at in itself. But we are well under pressure again. And in a number of switching moments they were very dangerous again.”
After the semi-finals, the trainer spoke of an “excellent starting position” with which his team will travel to Marseille next week. “We will also try to put pressure on it. But with these fans behind us, it did add a little something extra tonight. The plan will not completely deviate. However, you now also saw in the last twenty minutes that we had to defend and hold back. And we can do that quite nicely. At a detailed level, a number of things need to be improved.”
“The nice thing about the fact that away goals no longer count double is that 3-2 is also a good result. We won. But the opponent has a lot of quality, so we will have to be very good again next week to continue. But that makes sense at this level.”