Gilberto: “We’re okay without Henry”
December 9, 2006
Here is what Gilberto has said about Henry today:
“We are doing our best without Thierry.”
Thierry is very important to us because he’s the skipper. But we are doing best and have shown that we can play without him. Against Chelsea he might not play so we need to do our best without him and I hope we do the job well. We won at Old Trafford and, more recently, against Tottenham when he wasn’t there so we can win at Chelsea without him.
Porto was a hard game because before kick-off we knew we just needed a point to go through. If you’re not 100% positive in that kind of game then you can make a mistake and life becomes difficult. They caught us on the break and had two good chances to win. We just tried to stop their attacks.
There has been a lot of pressure on us since we lost to Fulham. I said before the Tottenham game that we had two games to decide our season.We needed to save our season. We beat Tottenham and we qualified for the next round of the Champions League, so we have done that. Now we have another tough match against Chelsea. It won’t be easy to win the game as it’s always difficult to win at Stamford Bridge.