Spurs 4-0 Copenhagen Xavi Simons Interview UEFA Champions League Tottenham Hotspur v FC Copenhagen

Xabi, player of the match tonight. Congratulations. Did you enjoy it out there? Yeah, we have enjoyed this game together with the fans and the most important thing is three points. Tell me about your performance tonight. It felt like you were at the heart of everything we were doing creatively. Anything different for you in terms of the way that you approached the game or was it just one of those nights where it felt really good? Yeah, at the end, like what I said before, everyone wants to perform and wants to play good but this is life. You have to keep working hard and every day is a new day, new challenge and new opportunity to perform well. We were looking at the team before the game, Xabi, and just we were looking at it on paper and we thought Xabi's in there at number 10, players wide, players supporting him. It just looks made for him tonight and you went out and delivered. Yeah, what I said before, I'm a guy I need to enjoy playing football and that's what I do the most and tonight you could see together with the team was special. What was the feeling? I mean, Brennan took his goal so well from your pass but what was the feeling when Wilson scored the second goal here because that put us 2-0 up. It just felt we needed that second goal. Yeah, I think it was a relief because in the first half I think you could kill the game a little bit with these two actions but at the end, yeah, this is football and luckily Wilson scored the second one and then was the relief for everyone. Xabi, I think it's the first time that we've had you down at Pitchford after a game so I'm really intrigued to know, how have you found it here? Have you enjoyed it so far? Yeah, I've enjoyed it. Obviously, together with the team, we want to perform always but yeah, things went a little bit different but what I said before, I think we are every day on the club working hard to try to do our best and to bring the best performance together. Tell me what you've made in terms of the Premier League here as well. Just in terms of the way that you've fitted in, you can see how hard you're working and you can see how much you're putting in. You're getting into all of the right positions. Just what have you made in terms of the level? Has it lived up to what you expected? Yeah, with no disrespect to other leagues, obviously Premier League is Premier League but the leagues I've played, the teammates I've played with are high quality and what I said, I played as well with a national team, international way and I know what you have to do in this level to bring this and obviously, you want to perform always but in life, not everything goes how you want always. So yeah, this a little bit but I will always keep working hard and try to give my 100% and help the team. Just finally, Xabi, we've seen one of the goals of the season tonight from your international teammate, your teammate here at Tottenham Hotspur. Just tell me what it was like experiencing that as a teammate, watching Micky van der Ven run through, what, 80, 90 yards? No, I'm honest with you. In the dressing room, I told him I would kill you if I was, I don't know who was the right one but if he would miss this one, I would kill him definitely but yeah, obviously, everyone knows how fast this guy is. He doesn't look that fast but on a pitch, when you're next to him, it's just crazy and happy for him that he had this goal and the three points.