On Giroud...
"It has been very frustrating for him because he didn't always play and when he played well I didn't always play him in the next game, but I think we have an honest relationship. I have a big respect for him and he knows that.
"He was not always playing and despite that, he kept a strong motivation level. Our job, when you're a football player, you have to be always ready.
"When you're selected, it's fantastic. When you're not selected, you have to be ready, and the players who are always ready when they get their chance, they are there.
"And the players who feel sorry for themselves, they get their chance and they give you one more reason to justify why you didn't select them. The fighters are always ready."
"We are not in an administration here, we are in a competition. You do not have 'your place', like a seat that you buy with a season ticket.
"We are competing and I think if I have only one striker, everybody says 'what are you doing, you have only one striker?'
"So you need two or three strikers and we have Welbeck coming back so most of the time I will have to make the decision considering the opponent we play.
"Like today, I knew it would be deep and that in the air could be a solution. So I have to make the right decisions."
On Chelsea...
"At the moment there is quite a big distance between us and Chelsea and we need a special resilience to come back, but I hope that the other teams will have as well their moments of weakness and we can only take advantage of it if we continue like that."