Frank Lampaar: Too timid 🎙️ ‘Your season isn’t defined by a defeat against Arsenal or Manchester City’

Frank, not obviously the result you'd wanted, but you know it's a very difficult place to come. What's your general feeling of the performance tonight? Yeah, I'm calm. I'm calm. It's a difficult place to come. Atmosphere at the start of the game, whoa, it was big. They're celebrating being champions and we probably paid them that little bit of respect, I think, early in the game. And when you pay them a little bit of respect, if you play a little bit sensitive because you may be worried, you worry what they may be able to do to you. And I felt there was a little bit of that in that game. It wasn't there last year, but it's different. It's different when you're winning every week. So it's a good lesson for us in the level of quality. You make a small mistake for the first goal and all of a sudden it's in the back of your neck. Those are the levels. And so for my boys, seven or eight, I think, Premier League debuts in our starting line-up today. That was a good lesson for them. And they need to stay calm and positive after it because we played against a really good team. And the important thing was no heads went down. They still kept going in the second half. There's still that intent to get forward. Obviously, first game of the season. That's really important as well. Yeah, and they will be because they're a very good group. And, you know, I think, as I say, in the first half, I felt like our chest wasn't out as much as it should be. We went along a little bit. Some of it was because of Arsenal's brilliant pressure, but at times it was like, we can do a bit better than that. So I'll give the players that one today because they're such a good team. These are a strong group and we'll need that over the season. You know, we're going to have moments this season because that's such the high level of the league and what we're coming into. We have to keep our eye on where we want to get to. And I have full belief in these boys to do that. Home form, is that going to be the key for survival this season? A bit of everything, but yes, because we have an amazing stadium with an incredible fan base and a really good feeling there from what we've done in the last 18 months. Our home form has been great. And sometimes we can be a different team. We have to get results on the road as well. But for sure, if we can play how we want to play and be more dominant in terms of dominant, have more possession, more effective with our possession, we were not today. And some of that is because of the opposition. Some of that's because of us. But I believe we'll have more of that and our home form is going to be big. And that leads to the next one, Hull City. I mean, already the second game of the season, we're already talking about how big a game it is. Yeah, and I get it. I get it. You look at our start, you say Arsenal away, Hull at home, Manchester City away. In a way, I'm happy because those games for teams that are going to get promoted, your season is not defined on Arsenal away. It's not defined on Manchester City away. You can get something great. But games like Hull, for sure, we have. But it'll be a tough game. It'll be a big challenge because now we'll be expected to win. And the opposite of what tonight was. And that's a different challenge for the players. But we've got a good week going into it and we'll be ready. Wish you all the best, mate. Good to speak to you, mate. Nice to see you. Thank you.