After a couple of weeks of adaptation and his first appearances with AS Monaco, the brand new striker of the Principality membership took the time to open up to us to debate with us his first impressions.
He scored a rapid-fire hat trick final week in simply eight minutes. However past his outstanding efficiency, which earned him a 9 within the newspaper L’Équipe, has above all confirmed that he has tailored in a short time to his new atmosphere. So between his arrival, his first steps at AS Monaco and his journey to get there, the 21-year-old Dane agreed to inform his story at size with the humor and naturalness that characterize him.🎙️
All the pieces occurred in a short time actually, from the second I left the Sturm Graz coaching camp to go , till my first coaching session with the staff and my first match. However I feel it’s higher when every little thing occurs fairly rapidly, to get into the swing of issues immediately. The primary two matches weren’t superb, particularly with , particularly since I missed my penalty, which wasn’t ideally suited to begin. However I rapidly turned the web page by scoring 4 objectives within the final three video games, so the report is fairly good for the second.
How is your new life right here?
I’ve all the time lived alone because the starting of my profession, so I got here to Monaco alone. My household simply got here by once I arrived to go to and assist me transfer some issues, however in any other case I dwell alone, and I actually like this place.
Enjoying for Sturm Graz was actually nice. However I feel I gave my all by profitable the league and cup double, enjoying within the Champions League and scoring on this prestigious competitors. So I felt like I had achieved what I needed.
Mika BierethOn his causes for signing for AS Monaco
I inform everybody that I’m impressed by the climate right here. I left the snow in Austria for the south of France the place it’s about twenty levels (smile)! I couldn’t have dreamed of a greater atmosphere, and actually every little thing has been going properly since I arrived.
Which gamers come to thoughts once we discuss AS Monaco?
If we’re speaking about latest historical past we consider who has turn out to be a fantastic participant and performs for Actual Madrid right now. I additionally consider Radamel Falcao and , who’re additionally attackers who’ve made their mark right here. However there are such a lot of nice gamers who’ve performed at AS Monaco! And that’s to not point out clearly, who then shone at Arsenal by changing into the membership’s all-time high scorer.
Why did you select to come back right here?
Enjoying for Sturm Graz was actually nice. However I feel I gave my all by profitable the league and cup double, enjoying within the Champions League and scoring on this prestigious competitors. So I felt like I had achieved what I needed. After which when the chance to signal for AS Monaco introduced itself, with the potential of enjoying in a European Large 5 league, combating for the highest of the desk and experiencing a sport that I like, you don’t give it some thought for lengthy. Particularly once I had the chance to speak to the coach, Adi Hütter, but in addition Thiago Scuro and Carlos Aviña, who made me really feel welcome. Actually, it was an easy resolution to make!
Did you’re feeling such as you had been welcomed like a household?
I’ve to say that it went in a short time for me, I instantly felt snug with my teammates. Clearly it’s going to get higher and higher, however I admit that the primary two or three weeks had been good for me. It’s a fantastic begin!
Superb, but it surely’s sure that enjoying immediately and having the ability to rating rapidly, drastically facilitates the mixing into the staff. I felt plenty of respect and kindness from my teammates, and that helps to hurry up the method.
Mika BierethOn his integration into the squasd
How has your integration gone?
Superb, but it surely’s sure that enjoying immediately and having the ability to rating rapidly, drastically facilitates the mixing into the staff. I felt plenty of respect and kindness from my teammates, and that helps to hurry up the method. My 4 objectives have definitely made my activity simpler, so let’s hope it continues on this route.
Did the primary two video games assist you to adapt to this new staff?
That’s for certain! Once you arrive at a brand new membership, particularly as a younger participant, it’s not all the time straightforward to create a relationship with the others and perceive how everybody likes to play. And naturally it’s not straightforward for 20-25 gamers to understand how you play, so it takes somewhat time to adapt and it’s additionally as much as me to make an effort. However in the long run it solely took us two video games to search out one another, and it confirmed on the pitch within the final two video games (Rennes and Auxerre). So every little thing’s going properly for the second.
How did you’re feeling after your first objective ?
It’s all the time particular to attain your first objective whenever you arrive at a brand new membership! It’s a fantastic feeling, but it surely’s much more so whenever you’re a striker, it’s a type of aid to open your account. I’d even say that it’s crucial factor, to attain the primary objective as rapidly as doable, regardless of how, and in addition to mine wasn’t essentially the most lovely on the earth (laughs)! However it helped us take the three factors, and that’s the primary factor. I actually felt .
It was very straightforward I have to say to play with him. However he isn’t solely a superb particular person on the pitch, but in addition off it, he’s an actual chief! He’s a kind of who’ve accelerated my integration, and instructed me that if I wanted something, I may depend on him. He has been actually nice with me!
Mika BierethOn Breel Embolo
Towards Auxerre this time, you related very properly with within the second half…
He is a superb participant with nice qualities, who might not have been very assured not too long ago, however I truly felt that we had a superb connection. Breel can be a really clever participant, who isn’t egocentric on the pitch and who quite the opposite will get on properly with the striker who’s enjoying subsequent to him. On my third objective, he let me take the ball whereas he was operating and had beaen the goalkeeper. It was very straightforward I have to say to play with him. However he isn’t solely a superb particular person on the pitch, but in addition off it, he’s an actual chief! He’s a kind of who’ve accelerated my integration, and instructed me that if I wanted something, I may depend on him. He has been actually nice with me!
A hat-trick in eight minutes, you’ve by no means skilled that?
Actually, on the pitch it didn’t appear that wanting an period of time to me (smile)! However after the match the coach instructed me that I had scored the three in simply over eight minutes, and I’ve to say that I used to be somewhat shocked. However that’s soccer, typically every little thing goes your approach rapidly, like a snap of the fingers.
𝟱𝟳’ ⚽𝟲𝟯’ ⚽𝟲𝟱’ ⚽
Un triplé en 8️⃣ minutes pour Mika Biereth face à Auxerre 🦊🇩🇰
Does this hat-trick offer you much more confidence in your self?
It’s clearly crucial for a participant to attain, however not essentially only for a striker! Even when, on this place specifically, you must construct up as a lot confidence as doable, since you want it to attain once more and easily hold it. So it’s sure that scoring 4 objectives in three matches offers you an additional increase and extra confidence in terms of going through the goalkeeper to shoot.
That’s what you confirmed on this match by scoring three objectives after which trying to get 4…
Actually? Not a nasty ratio (smile)? I do know that my objectives will not be essentially the most lovely on the earth, however I simply attempt to all the time be in a superb place on the pitch, in order that my teammates may give me good balls in the very best circumstances in order that I can thank them afterwards!
Why don’t you may have a celebration by the best way?
(Smile) Even once I was youthful, I simply favored this tremendous cool feeling of celebrating, however with out having one thing in thoughts or something. It’s not in my nature I feel! I simply need to rating objectives, run alongside the touchline and have a good time with my teammates, it has rather more which means to me. I wish to get pleasure from this second with them, even when I typically get slapped on the again of the pinnacle (laughs)! It’s actually particular when everybody involves congratulate you.
After the match towards Auxerre, the coach insisted on not placing an excessive amount of pointless strain on you after this hat-trick. We think about that you just respect the truth that he needs to guard you…
It’s a really smart and logical resolution on the a part of a supervisor, when a 21-year-old participant comes into the staff and makes a debut like me. It’s fully regular for him to care about me. And he is aware of very properly that in return, I may even watch out to not get carried away after this hat-trick, it’s very pure. It’s a good way to handle me, as a result of it is going to be very tough for me to keep up this tempo of three objectives per sport for the remainder of the season (smiles).
Tactically and technically, I’ve by no means performed with such sturdy teammates. And as a striker, it’s so snug to have teammates able to supplying you with the ball in the very best circumstances, no matter your place on the pitch! So I’d say that I actually have an excellent feeling on this league.
Mika BierethOn his first impressions of Ligue 1
I do know very properly that if I miss a giant match, everybody can be tempted to suppose that I’m finally ineffective and that I’m not price as a lot because the membership has invested in me. We all know very properly that soccer is made up of ups and downs, right now I’m slightly on the high, however I’ll particularly give attention to being as constant as doable in my performances.
What’s your first impression concerning the stage of Ligue 1?
It’s an excellent league actually, very totally different from what I skilled in Austria. The bodily stage of the gamers we face is absolutely very excessive. Even tactically and technically, I’ve by no means performed with such sturdy teammates. And as a striker, it’s so snug to have teammates able to supplying you with the ball in the very best circumstances, no matter your place on the pitch! So I’d say that I actually have an excellent feeling on this league.
You had a style of it this season by going through Brest, earlier than going through and scoring towards Lille within the Champions League…
We had already performed LOSC within the spherical of 16 of the Europa Convention League final season with Sturm Graz. We misplaced fairly closely at house (3-0), earlier than drawing within the return leg at their place, and I scored, like this 12 months within the Champions League the place we deserved higher for my part (a 3-2 defeat). In any case, I loved enjoying towards them and particularly scoring!
Trying again a bit, what do you bear in mind out of your youth at Fulham and Arsenal?
It’s arduous to consider one second specifically, however I feel the second season with Fulham’s U18s was the very best for me, scoring 21 objectives in 21 video games. It was undoubtedly the start of what I can provide right now, and it was actually the primary time I began to get good numbers and was so obsessive about scoring on a regular basis. Then, signing for Arsenal was additionally a superb reminiscence. Having the chance to be on the bench for the primary staff on a number of events was nice, even when the actual fact of by no means having had the possibility to come back in was a bit irritating. However that’s a part of soccer, and it nonetheless permits you to achieve expertise, and to be the participant I’m right now.
At Monaco, you’ve reunited with . Do you do not forget that help he gave you towards the Chelsea U23s?
(He seems on the objective) It was a superb move, wasn’t it? Not dangerous. It jogs my memory of the second objective I scored towards Auxerre, from Caio Henrique’s cross, it’s a little bit of the identical type of motion, even when the one with Arsenal is a bit prettier I feel. Folarin is a bit older than me, and it was very nice to play with him. Particularly when your teammate is ready to discover you in a tough place. On the time he gave me a fantastic move and the end wasn’t dangerous both (smiles)! In any case, I’ve seen Folarin rapidly since my arrival, he’s recovering from his harm. I hadn’t seen him for 2-3 years, so we remembered some reminiscences of London, it was good.
📍 That move🔥 That end
After Arsenal, you went on three mortgage spells with various outcomes. What did you’re taking away from these experiences at Waalwijk, Motherwell after which Graz?
If I’ve to be trustworthy, I hated my first mortgage within the Netherlands. It didn’t go properly. It was my first expertise overseas and a really difficult first style of the skilled world for me, as a result of I didn’t actually have the chance to indicate my qualities to the coach and the employees. Initially you suppose it’s straightforward and that anybody can do it, however once I was there I realised how tough it was to make your mark. So I’ve to say that my second mortgage in Scotland allowed me to get pleasure from enjoying soccer once more, to have enjoyable with my teammates and to get as a lot enjoying time as doable.
We had been on the finish of our preseason with Sturm Graz, so we had been actually able to face Monaco who had been in full restoration. Regardless of that, we had been in a position to see the distinction between the 2 groups, with actually good technical gamers on the Monaco aspect, even when it was one of many first pleasant matches for them, there was this high quality.
Mika BierethOn scoring within the preseason towards AS Monaco
Then there was my final six-month mortgage to , the place I had the chance to attain a couple of objectives, after which I signed completely and received the primary titles of my profession final season, with this cup and league double in Austria! I actually loved my time there, however I felt this summer season that I needed to transfer on to the subsequent step. All good issues should come to an finish, and I feel I wanted to expertise one thing even larger, and right now I’m very pleased to be right here in Monaco!
Within the meantime, you had the chance to face the Rouge et Blanc in pre-season. You even scored in that match…
It was a penalty, proper? Sure, I bear in mind it properly. We had been on the finish of our preseason with Sturm Graz, so we had been actually able to face Monaco who had been in full restoration. Regardless of that, we had been in a position to see the distinction between the 2 groups, with actually good technical gamers on the Monaco aspect, even when it was one of many first pleasant matches for them, there was this high quality.
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To speak somewhat extra about your profile, you all the time say that you’re an “old-school” striker. What are your inspirations on this similar fashion?
I’ve already mentioned in a number of interviews that I see myself as a “poor man’s Erling Haaland” (smiles). But when I’m going again somewhat additional in my youth, I favored watching “old-school” strikers like Didier Drogba, who actually had unimaginable athletic qualities and a way of objective.
With , you’re near the High 10 of the very best scorers of the Large 5. Is it a objective for you sooner or later, to be among the many finest scorers?
As a striker, my objective is all the time to attain as many objectives as doable! Now I’m not but in a position to evaluate myself to those gamers, and it’s important quite the opposite to proceed by yourself path and never take note of that. Alternatively, in my approach of seeing issues, I begin every match with the need to attain, it’s in my DNA! And on the finish of the day, if I seem in this type of checklist, a lot the higher.
What are the areas wherein you suppose you possibly can enhance?
(He smiles) That’s a tough query, as a result of development in soccer isn’t one thing linear, quite the opposite, within the lifetime of a quantity 9 there are sometimes ups and downs! So I simply need to take the matches one after the opposite, proceed my studying and my development and see the place it takes me.
One like Maghnes did towards Rennes! I feel it’s a superb dream, proper (laughs)? I’d say that one. It was an unimaginable objective, actually particular, and I feel I had the very best view of the stadium to get pleasure from it, as a result of he did it proper subsequent to my head (smiles)
Mika BierethOn his dream objective
What are your objectives this season with AS Monaco?
For the second, I simply need to combine properly and step by step turn out to be an necessary member of this staff. It’s by no means straightforward, as soon as once more, whenever you arrive from one other nation at 21, going from a extra modest league to a Large 5 one, particularly in a staff that’s combating on the high of the desk. I feel I confirmed good issues within the first matches, even when I spotted the extent of problem. So I need to begin by integrating properly.
What objective would you want to attain in your wildest desires?
One like ! I feel it’s a superb dream, proper (laughs)? I’d say that one. It was an unimaginable objective, actually particular, and I feel I had the very best view of the stadium to get pleasure from it, as a result of he did it proper subsequent to my head (smiles). An amazing objective!
Is it additionally a objective so that you can play for the Danish nationwide staff?
It’s true that I’ve been referred to as up a number of instances with the U21s, however I need to focus above all on performing properly at membership stage with AS Monaco. And I feel that by being good and decisive with the staff, the choice will definitely come sooner or later.
Thanks in your help since my arrival! You’ll be a fantastic assist to us on Friday with a full away finish on the Parc des Princes for a fantastic match towards Paris Saint-Germain. We’ll give it our all!
Mika BierethHis messag to the Monégasque supporters
Thanks in your help since my arrival! You’ll be a fantastic assist to us on Friday with a full away finish on the Parc des Princes for a fantastic match towards Paris Saint-Germain. We’ll give it our all! And we may even want you throughout the double-legged towards Benfica. So I stay up for seeing you once more by our aspect.