RETEGUI – “He certainly won't be there for Arabia, we hope to get him back for Udinese. Then we will always play every three days with Juventus, Napoli and Barcelona in the Champions League”.
JANUARY – “It will be a month of January where there will be fun, it is not always easy to have the right impact in the match. For Lazio it was a very important match to halve that small gap in the last Sundays and they started with an intensity and a commendable strength. We struggled to contain it, we grew as the match went on and in Cagliari it was a similar match with the advantage of not having conceded a goal in Cagliari. We could have won it if we had scored a few minutes earlier, when we face teams so intense and fast we have to do better and hold up more knowing that the matches last 90 minutes. It's a great merit to recover matches like this.”
ZANIOLO – “He is giving better responses from match to match, lately he has been used constantly during matches even if not from the start yet. He is growing, he was decisive with Roma and with Cagliari, even today and his entry is starting to make a difference. He is also growing from an athletic point of view, mentally he has never given me problems because he has always trained with great desire. It has never been a problem, he was physically down and needed time to get back on track condition. He must become an important player.”
LAZIO – “I knew before today that Lazio is a good team, very offensive and technical with important accelerations not only in the attackers. They have strong and capable people, which is why they deserve the ranking they have and it is not a surprise. They can continue for a long time to stay in these positions in the standings, which is why I'm particularly satisfied because it was difficult to overturn a match like this given how it was going against a team that was going at full speed.”
FIRST HALF – “We couldn't contain their great push, with all the players. We struggled to recover the ball. They were more reactive on the goal than us in midfield. It took us a while to find the right measurements. Partly out of demerit Ours and largely thanks to them we suffered for long stretches in the first half, then in the second half we had another game.”
2024 – “2024 was Atalanta's best year in its history, even if we renew this goal every year. We hope to be able to do it in 2025 too, it would mean doing something even superior. What makes us satisfied is being able to straighten out difficult matches like tonight's. When it manages to find its balance, its game, its trajectories, can Atalanta do well and is this a satisfaction? my grade is the highest. 10, 100, 100 cum laude, 110 cum laude since we're talking about university. We've got a degree, now we're also trying to do a master's degree, the courses to further improve ourselves and the number of goals, the number of victories, 41 points in this championship and still one match to go. We have done something formidable, but we will try to make it repeatable.”
REPEATABLE YEAR – “Every year is different. Meanwhile, we could no longer win the Europa League this year (laughs, ed.). In this championship we were first in the standings for a long time, theoretically we still are. We have laid the foundations to grow and improve. This is my ambition: to always do something more.”
SQUARE – “Cuadrado had been going strong for a few weeks, after a period of inactivity. He had a couple of good games. Unfortunately he had a small injury, now he's back, he did well tonight. If he's fine like this, it will be a big boost for us. He could also have scored, he had an opportunity to equalize but everyone who came on did well, even Samardzic.”
BRESCIANINI – “Brescianini came on for a short time but scored a goal. We are not that numerous in attack, even numerically, just look at the bench.”
STRIKER – “I never think about this, we're fine. In January what we couldn't finish in August would be important, otherwise we'll carry on like this. The club knows very well that we wanted to be very competitive this year.”
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