Leeds United vs Nottingham Forest: Live Javi Gracia press conference ahead of crucial week at Elland Road

I had to keep an eye on the next games and the games my players played before with the national teams. I had to think about many things to take decisions in that game. The line-up I chose was thinking that players, that formation was the best to play against Arsenal in that moment and I will do the same in the next game. We play again on Sunday and a busy month of April.

I try to enjoy everyday, not just football but life. When you feel the responsibility of people around you, all of them trust your job, trust we’ll get the target at the end, you feel that responsibility. Until you don’t get it, you don’t stop.

I expect a more offensive game for us than the last one. When we play against Arsenal, at the end it was 33 per cent possession for us. Of course we have to know the way to manage that percentage of possession, to try to be offensive, to be brave. I think we did that, five shots on target, Arsenal had six. We competed well. It’s true we are playing against the top team but we competed well. Now playing at home I expect a different game, a more offensive game with more possession and most important: a better result

Now, they have different options. If we speak about players, because they signed new players. You can see their last line-up and you compare with the game before, they do many changes, many shapes. In the last game, I think they played well, they have in my opinion quality players and it’s a team that defeated us a short time ago. We have to be aware of that. We have to do something different and something better to try to beat them.

You see all the games and you want to know everything about other teams but I try to be honest with you: we don’t waste our time thinking about other teams, situations. We have our situation, we are living our days in this moment, suffering a difficult situation, but at the same time with the confidence we’re doing many things very well.

We are playing at home and we know how important it is to play with the support of our fans, to give an extra effort. It’s a chance to take a big amount of points.

About injured players I prefer not say anything. You know our situation is not good with injured players, all the medical staff are working really hard to recover as soon as possible. In two, three days, things don’t change a lot. Maybe we have some different options tomorrow but we have to prepare the game with the players we have.

When the game finished all of us were disappointed with the result. I think we did many things well, much better in the first half when the game was more equal and we had some chances to score, we didn’t suffer a lot, we defended well. We found a balance against these teams. After conceding the penalty and early goal in the second half, the game changed and was more difficult for us. The players kept going and doing the right things until the end. I was happy with the attitude of all my players