On Thursday's media conference call, the gaffer dished on the Derby, Poku-to-Miami, and his special relationship with The Zlatan.
"For us, it will be really important," Patrick Vieira said of Sunday's Hudson River Derby, "to control our emotion, and just try to concentrate on the way we want to play."
"I think in the first game we play against them, our emotions take over the game."
But despite the stinking specter of 7-0 hanging dreadfully low over the proceedings, the gaffer remained his typically calm, composed self on Thursday afternoon's media conference call.
"What I'm really pleased about where we are at the moment is that we're playing some really good football, and we concede less chances," he said of his NYCFC squad, winners of two games on the hop.