BETRAYED BY MORATA? – “No, we made a mistake in releasing the ball against Verona. He was unlucky, he felt it and he made a mistake. It’s part of football; where we are, there is something more important than the result. I have to look at many things to see the team’s growth.”
rigorist – “I really like the organization, but I’ve experienced many personal episodes with the penalty taker and I think that whoever feels like it should take the shot. Obviously if Diego Carlos goes I tell him: ‘Hey, stop’ (laughs, ed.). But for the rest, whoever feels like it should take the shot, it had happened to me too during the course of my career.”
GROWTH – “A team that is improving, there is still a lot to do to improve: when you are young there are many ups and downs but they give me a lot. I push because they are open-minded and continue to work harder and harder. For me it’s lucky, we are in a long process.”
COUNT – “He is a very passionate coach, at Chelsea he did very different things: he is a coach who evolves, very ferocious and always wants to grow, in addition to the result for the imprint he gives to his teams.”
PERSONALITY – “I’m happy up to a certain point, when you play like this you have to win but we took another step forward against a very strong team that I really like. I watch a lot of Napoli’s games and I haven’t seen any team press him like that, we had a lot of 20-year-old players and this needs to be highlighted. People like to talk about the 100 million spent, but Jesus Rodriguez didn’t even spend a year as a professional. There aren’t many teams that do that and this is something that gives me great satisfaction. They moved me, this is the road and we must continue like this.”
NUISANCE – “I’m satisfied. I’m leaving with a feeling of annoyance, because when you play like this and don’t win it’s annoying. Compared to last year we deserved more; no team came to press like this here. We’re growing a lot, as a coach, for the first time I didn’t say anything tactically to the boys, I just thanked them. Lots of young people aged 20, 7 players, what can I say? As a coach you can’t ask for more than to put it in and win. We took another step after Parma…”.
MISSING GOAL – “It’s the most difficult thing; you pay the players a lot to make this difference. It’s something that comes slowly, Nico isn’t the same as last year. He grows slowly.”
DIRTIEST TEAM – “Yes, it’s possible; it’s part of growing up. Last year Da Cunha and the others never went to the ground to get fouled. They are so young that they don’t have these things… We need to manage uniformity better at refereeing level. The boys need to learn and see how we can improve with patience.”
DIFFERENCE WITH NAPLES – “Less than two years ago we were seventh in Serie B. We are trying to shorten that; time will tell. We also played with one less day of recovery, the boys gave everything after less than 72 hours and after a problem with the plane last night. I like this hunger; we must continue like this and try to do the same with Juve, Lazio, etc.”.
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