PEDRO – “Pedro can play 90 minutes, he’s fine, his head is centered, he’s convinced, he knows there’s space and trust. When you’re good in football and you train hard there’s no age even if there’s a physiological age. He has always given signals.”
CHALLENGES – “We live on challenges, today I told the boys that the matches are coming, and when these matches arrive it matters a lot how you got there, the path, I asked them to play it with joy and personality, they deserve it for the work they are doing doing today I liked the mentality and understanding the times and moments of the match. It’s a deserved victory.”
CASTELLANOS – “They knew we were attacking from the front, we took advantage of the long trajectory, Taty is very good, he prefers to break away and go get the ball from behind. Dead balls are important especially when there are closed teams, who stay low, he is a resource, we we work but the kids believe in it.”
PELLEGRINI – “”I believed in victory. The ball that Pellegrini kicked while sliding is the emblem of those who come in and can make an important contribution, as can Isaksen. I saw that the boys could score, they believed in it all the way.”
LEG – “Gigot? He was almost angry at the substitution, that makes me happy. He was fine, but I was a little afraid because he was booked and he’s a very temperamental guy. I only took him off because of a possible expulsion, I was afraid of the referee “.
GOAL IN THE FINAL – “We always believe in it, we owe it to ourselves and we owe it to the people. You have to play to win matches, I know very well that difficult moments will come but if you have created a strong identity you will overcome these difficulties. I read that since 2018 City he didn’t lose three consecutive games, it happens to big teams but it depends on the mentality you create. I would hardly bring in a defender to bring home a result, I wouldn’t be consistent with the proposal we present in training and I wouldn’t be credible.”
FIRST MONTHS – “I write something to myself between the first and second half, then I talk to the collaborators and we try to see the things that aren’t working to understand how to improve. I wrote to myself because Nuno was there who is a very sensitive boy, I also feel the conferences because communication is part of our job, both with journalists and with the team. I am in this adventure with everything, it is part of my character. I had the best chance of my life. I slept for two months in Formello , I recently moved home but I often stay in Formello. I want to give my all, when I said that this team doesn’t let me sleep at night because it stimulates me, then I sleep little but I see the participation I asked for, the proposal we have presented from day one talking about the football we wanted to play, the team believes in it and we have to go strong.”
CASTROVILLI – “There is a statement on Castro, we will lose it for a few weeks.”
PATRIC – “I think Patric has an inflammation but I’m very confident about his presence in Monza”.
CHANGING ROOMS – “When I returned to the locker room the first thing I said to the staff who for me is the second team is that we have to work because we have little time to recover everyone, we have to recover from the fatigue and work on recovery. The coach works a lot and rejoices little, we are at the sixth race in nineteen days, I have little time but I’m happy to see the boys rejoice. I let them do it because they are professionals, they know how to behave and they know how to manage themselves. I talk a lot about balance because they bring balance in the locker room it’s my responsibility. I’m happy to see these results, but I have to refocus the team. We didn’t have to wait for this match to understand that we are a great team, the first twenty minutes in Turin against Juve are like a great team “The expulsion changed everything, but I’m convinced that with equal numbers it would have been another match and even in the difficulties we played very well in the match.”
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