Hear the coach respond in the post-match at Mediaset
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Gian Piero Gasperini joined us here to comment on this success, the passage to the quarterfinals with Monica Vanali. Good evening. Good evening. Let’s say that this Atalanta, mister, this evening has put a further piece in this wonderful mosaic that is Atalanta. But can you tell us where you want to take this Atalanta, where do you want to go?
We are undoubtedly in a moment of confidence and this evening’s approach was also very positive, even with some new guys, but also with players who needed to play 90 minutes
[00:37–00:48] or who arrived from a series of matches, for example like in Cagliari, perhaps they had rested. We entered the field very well straight away, we also recovered some injured players like Zappacosta.
We journalists have been waiting for Zaniolo from the first minute and as always she gives us her tactical wisdom, let’s say her piece
[01:01–01:14] Retegui, but why? Can I ask him?
Retegui needed to play and I kept him on the pitch for 90 minutes because he had dropped a bit in condition recently, but then he worked very well, this evening he played one last game, even if he didn’t manage to score, he gave a nice feeling of condition and this was important to me.
Cristian Panucci. Hi Gian Piero. I wanted to ask you something. After the match against Real Madrid you said that we were missing certain details. they are missing in the sense that there is a need for this group to grow or the great champions take care of these details in the sense that some international level champions are needed or in your opinion is this the group that can still grow?
We try to build champions on an international level, we also think that someone like Lookman, for example, has become a top player on an international level, they must not become too much because otherwise they will go away, they want to go away, but this is our story, then we are also convinced of have players who can who have who have the potential then if we met a Real Madrid who in that evening, unlike other matches we have seen previously, made incredibly high values for them, they managed to hold and in some cases to do even more than what we have done. Players like Bellingham, who are great players, also manage to play at these paces, at these levels. It is clear that technical ability also has an impact, but we are talking about absolute excellence so we are always looking for and still have a long way to improve, meanwhile the scale for building talent is now truly black and blue.
Stefano Sorrentino, hello mister everyone gives compliments record after record and everything as I know you well because I was lucky enough to be born like you, no what’s not to like about your Atalanta? Because everyone, only positive things, since I know you and I know that you are nitpicking, what is there that you still have to improve to truly compete, as you just said, with teams like Real Madrid who have unique samples?
Well, I don’t know, there are teams that spend a lifetime even with many resources without being competitive with Real Madrid, it’s not like this can be our goal. In the meantime, we have a great spirit, at this moment we also have a lot of confidence, we have great enthusiasm, we have an extraordinary audience, at the moment we are truly living in a very positive period, as was also seen this evening, in short, a party in the Italian Cup with a second series team, with a full stadium this undoubtedly gives great confidence to the players – The reason we must always look for we always try to improve at this moment on a technical level because on the motivations on the behaviors on the attitudes on the desire to do, in those aspects I would say that we are very far ahead.
Then there is always room for improvement in that too, but we are very far ahead. The technical plan never ends.
Mino Taveri. Apart from the fact that Gasperini will be very angry that he conceded a goal. It’s at the very end. He’s very angry because he conceded that late goal and they shouldn’t concede that late goal. But apart from this, I’ll close with a joke with Giampiero, he’s the first coach who manages to make De Ketelaere smile. He has fun because everyone is having fun and everything gets louder. Where did Giampiero tease this boy to make him so loud?
But I don’t know, I still haven’t understood how you managed to make him sad, because he has always been a really cheerful boy, an intelligent boy, a light-hearted and calm boy for his age, he’s not one of those, but I always see him smiling , always cheerful, even my teammates. Luckily we have never had this type of problem but I think when Milan also bought him they also evaluated him from this aspect so they certainly got not only an excellent player but also a person of value and then the fact that it is clear that it is being removed the great satisfactions from a technical point of view this undoubtedly helps him.
Gasperini, listen, then the sign of the smile, I greet you, I’ll meet you in the Italian Cup quarter-finals, but even before that we will see each other from January 2nd because you will be the first to take to the field against Inter in the match Italian Super Cup.
Good job, thanks. Okay, we’ll see you all in Riyadh then.
