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Philippe Clement has spoken to the media after the Champions League defeat to Dynamo Kyiv. Here is what he had to say.

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Did you get an explanation from the referee?

I tried to because I saw the images after. It is clear. You have in football, and we talked about that, sometimes a grey zone and because of that VAR is there and it makes football more honest. This decision had nothing to do with a grey zone. It is really clear, there is nothing going on. Jefte just jumps higher, he doesn’t move his arm, his arm is beside his body. It is not a foul, it is nothing. To lose a player in that moment and play the game with ten… I tried to understand the decision and to ask but the referee sticks to his opinion about it that it was a clear foul and a second red. I am really confident that his bosses will have another idea.

How frustrating is it to go out on that key point?

I cannot say it kills the dream at that moment because that is a thing to be proud of, that the players kept on going with ten and tried to find the moments to counter-attack. Before that we were dominating the game and were creating the chances after that, not with massive chances because Dynamo is also a good team. We saw they were getting tired and that in the last half hour we would get more spaces to get the chances. The players kept on doing what they had to do, they kept on believing and then get the goal against at the end. Then it is one against one to try and force something and you get the second goal against. It is a very decisive moment. It has killed the dream of the dressing room, killed the dream of more than 50,000 fans and you expect a better level in decision making. This is for me the worst decision I have seen in more than 30 years in football.

Does it surprise you that a decision has gone against you like that at this level?

I have a lot of things in my head but you guys know that every word I say too much I can get a ban also for the next European game. Let’s keep things in my head. I think that is the best way. I need to be good and smart for the club, for the team, and we need to move on. Take lessons out of this game, and there are a lot of positive lessons out of the two games against them. The other things we don’t control.

What impact will this have on your ability to rebuild?

I told you guys this week if you go to Champions League you can do things faster if there is £40million coming into the club. It will take more time to do the things that we want to do or the club wants to do for the future. But it doesn’t mean that the story stops also. You see it already now with young, exciting players coming into the club, making steps, and I don’t need to say all the names all the time, to make value for the future. Out of that you can get two, three other players. We need to have a model as a club to grow.

There was a video of Danilo limping before the game…

In what video? Was it from this week? Or two years ago maybe? Dani always had that kind of walk from the moment he came in to the club here. I have been watching him for a long time. I wanted to get him to Brugge when he was in Ajax and was not playing there. He had that walk also in that moment so nobody needs to worry about that. There is nothing going on with him. Today I wanted to put him in, that was the idea, but the circumstances of the game were not there. People will see him in the next couple of weeks. They don’t need to worry about that. It is seven months out, you need time to gain match fitness and the right moments to get these minutes. It depends also on the scenario of the game.

Are you are far along in terms of the rebuild as you thought you would be?

Nobody knows that. Not one manager at one moment during a transfer window. We need to see September 1 where we are in that situation.

Do you imagine the club will make a protest about the referee?

I don't know. It depends. The club can do if it doesn't have consequences. Then it's also the right way to do it. But if it has consequences for the club, then you cannot do it. So I cannot also say not what I'm thinking. That's the way the game is played. Otherwise it's not good for the club also to get fines or whatever because they said something. Because in the end it will not be that the decision is changed and we're going to replay. It's never going to happen. We will see what happens in the next couple of weeks.

Any regrets about not starting Vaclav Cerny?

No. We have a lot of very qualified people in the building, in the medical staff, in the performance staff to come with the right things. It's also what the club needed after last season with so many injuries. To make that better. To have the right info. To make the right decisions. To make players better. To make them stronger. To give them the right moments, playing minutes. It comes out of four weeks of holidays. I understand that people who have never been a manager or never been a player and don't know what a human body is that they doubt those things then. But that's the reality of every manager. So no. Zero. Because it was clearly a decision for the short term and the long term.

How is Ridvan Yilmaz?

I have no idea for the moment. I hope not too bad.