Every word Patrick Vieira said on FA Cup, Stoke City, Kepa Arrizabalaga, Ukraine and more

Joel Ward started training on the field but he didn’t do any kind of team training so he won’t be involved tomorrow.

It’s a competition we want to do well and go as far as we can. We have a home tie and it's an advantage we have to use. We want to go to the next round and I will try to put on the field the best XI that will allow us to go to the next round.

There’s still a long way but the tie is at home and that is massively important. Regarding the team (opposition) being in the Premier League or Championship, the difficulty is going to be there and the challenge is still there. There is no easy game in the cup and we need to be ready mentally and approach it with the same intensity and competitiveness that we approached the last game with in the Premier League. There are no differences in how we will prepare the game and how we will approach the game or in the starting XI that I will put on the field.

It’s really difficult because you wake up with the news and go to bed with that news and it’s really difficult to understand what's going on around the world, especially in Ukraine. Our prayers and thoughts are with the Ukraine population. Football or no football, I hope it will end very soon.

It’s sport in general. Football is not different from other sports. If we can use the sport and use the authority of sport to influence peace around the world, we should do it. Sport, football in particular, is really popular worldwide and football is really important. If we can use that importance to bring peace between those two countries, then we have to do it.

Football is a really funny sport because when Thomas Tuchel made it work last time everyone praised his decision and today everyone questions it because it didn't work.