At the end of the match against Atalanta, the Napoli coach Antonio Conte will speak in Maradona’s conference room to answer questions from the press. On Tuttonapoli.net, as usual, the live text of the press conference.
3.02pm – The conference begins.
Worried especially by the second half? “You always have to evaluate the opponent you face. I have little to blame the boys for what they put on the field. It’s okay if a team is stronger, we didn’t lose because the desire and application were lacking. The boys have given everything trying to overcome the obstacle which was very high, today it was very high and we are beaten. Atalanta won the EL against an undefeated opponent like Bayer Leverkusen you can create a reality like them, whether you like it or not, they are a reality like the usual notes. We could have been better on goals but congratulations to them, you just have to pay compliments and not make small talk.”
Ko to get back down to earth? “When I speak I tell the truth and I don’t do it to cry, I hate lies and saying things I don’t mean. Like it or not I always tell the truth. We are here to work and try to reconstruct a situation, the president also said so at the beginning of the year. There has to be work, we need calm and patience. With 11/11 last year with not bad players we finished tenth. There will be difficulties and they must not knock us down today, if you are sporty, you raise your hands and say that you lost against a more structured and stronger team. We will make a progress, we must not see the excesses. Today is the demonstration that Atalanta is stronger than us at the moment, but this It doesn’t mean that at the end of the year we won’t be stronger. We will try to improve and raise the level.”
What adjective do you give to your Napoli? “A generous Napoli, who tried to counter a strong team also from a physical point of view. The difference was in the final part, they were surgical, we lacked the final part and the finishing. In some situations we could have do better, but I don’t feel like saying anything to the boys because I saw that they gave everything.”
Are you afraid of psychological repercussions? “Only those who are outside of reality can fear them, what repercussions should we have on the inside? Defeat is part of the process, it bothers me if it happens against a weaker team, as happened. We make a correct evaluation because we make evaluations all over the world. ‘outside not real and correct. I try to be realistic, Inter is even stronger and on Sunday we know that we have to make a progress, if anyone thinks that we shouldn’t do it and that everything will be in order it comes to me smile. We are not realistic and we don’t understand some things. Before we were not phenomena and today that we have lost we are no less phenomena than before.”
3.15pm – The conference ends.
