The Atalanta coach, Gian Piero Gasperinispoke at a press conference from the Penzo Stadium in Venice, where the match between the Nerazzurri and Di Francesco’s Orange-Greens recently ended, won by the Nerazzurri 2-0 thanks to goals from Pasalic and Retegui.
The break didn’t affect your growth.
“Instead of recovering players during the break we ended up losing others, today we will also evaluate Hien, after Kolasinac’s flu. Hien no longer felt like playing, he had a case of the flu. It was a match that could have been more at risk, but we scored straight away. Venezia had a little more energy, but we were careful and compact.”
Celtic arrives, then Monza and Verona to try a string.
“Easy with the streaks, we have to play all the matches, no result is a given. With Celtic, well, it’s a different competition, we’re facing a team used to winning championships, a fast team especially in attack. We’ll be careful of Ederson, he had pain in his a tooth, today he played with some pain.”
Lost Scamacca, you have found a champion. How much of Gasperini’s hand is there in this?
“Retegui is showing great value, he is growing and still has margin from the point of view of movements and other aspects. Technically he is doing well. Today he scored a goal of great quality. If I have to make a note, we could have done better up front.”
Did you grow up on set pieces?
“We have the characteristics to be able to do better than what we have done in the past. We have recently scored few goals, we have changed some situations, it is important who kicks, we have also changed who hits. Inactive balls are also an important resource for the great teams.”
Will Zaniolo do like Retegui?
“Retegui arrived very determined. He immediately implemented the few things we asked of him. Zaniolo is having space, he has played practically all the time, even in quite favorable situations, given that we were ahead. He must adapt to the spirit rather than the role Atalanta technique”.
Was Lookman not helping the team enough?
“He was probably tired too, then there are the matches and the needs of the teams. It has already happened to us against Como, we would have risked doing it against Venezia today too.”
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