Guendalina Galdi
January 2, 2025 (changed at 11:06 pm) – MILANO
“The initial choices? I didn't want to prove anything, we have quite a few players, we had a very demanding run of games in the league before playing here and it was the right time to check on some players who haven't played much.” Gian Piero Gasperini, post-match in Riyadh, immediately begins to explain his lineup choices which were surprising before the kick-off of the Super Cup semi-final against Inter. “We had some difficulties in the clearances, we lost heavy balls especially in the first half but in the second we created many scoring situations. Then there were some unlucky episodes… Inter's first goal for example is absurd: there were it's a corner that doesn't exist, there is De Vrij's position in front of Sommer and there is a clear foul on Scalvini who fails to jump”, continued the Dea coach.
-“we didn't snub the super cup”
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“We didn't snub anything, we tried to win the match but we faced a very strong team. We should have made fewer mistakes, there were a few too many errors. We still managed to create several situations, especially with Scalvini heading in the first half” . Then Gasp returns to the starting eleven: “It's not like De Ketelaere and Lookman can play 56 games for 90 minutes each time. I fielded the Atalanta squad. All the players played but some only rarely from the start, Zaniolo and Samardzic are among them. Then I had some important changes, this was the strategy. We didn't demerit Scalvini who came back from a very long injury and for me he was a solution too good and it's something we can repeat. It was an excellent test for me.”
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