The coach doesn’t make any dramas after the defeat: “The stronger team won, while we always tried to fight, demonstrating and wanting to grow. I say well done to my team, I’m satisfied”
Too Naples for the Cremonese which fails in the last race of the 2025. At the Zini stadium they win by 2-0 the Campanians, carried away by the brace of a wild player Hojlund. The grey-reds for their part offer a courageous performance, but are almost nowhere to be found in the offensive phase they never manage to engage Milinkovic-Savic.
Salvation for Cremonese, however, remains absolutely within reach, given the benefits nine points ahead of third-last place (even if the Verona has one less race). And the Lombard coach, Davide Nicolapromotes his boys: “I’m not sorry, we played the game we had to play. The strongest team won, while we always tried to fight, demonstrating and wanting to grow. I say well done to mine, I’m satisfiedor“.
Nicola heartens his Cremonese team: “The gap with the big teams has narrowed. The desire to produce has not been lacking”
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Nicola then went into detail about the match, promoting the performance: “We created interesting situations but were unable to materialize. We have never given up on buildingdespite knowing they have very little space on their side. For this reason we wanted to fill the area more. It’s sad to have finished 2-0 down in the first half, perhaps if it had been 1-0 we would have found more strength to recover. Napoli has a very high level but for me the gap with the big teams has narrowed. Against theInter we had done much worse“.
Today the grey-reds were especially lacking in the number of shots and opportunities created, but the coach doesn’t cause drama: “We had several situations with interesting passes towards the attack. Like one with Fats in the first half, where he could kick straight away. We could have been more qualitative, but being qualitative also depends on the skill of the opponent. We faced a strong team that was also very tactically organised. The desire to produce was not lackingwe also accepted several one-on-one situationsor”.
“Now we continue to work. Johnsen and Moumbagna can be useful in many phases of the game”
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The defeat against a stronger opponent does not change the mood and goals of the coach and the entire environment: “Now we continue to work to improve and to be ready against Fiorentina next Sunday. It’s not easy to keep a certain balance by always inserting different interpreters. The choices today were courageous, but necessary to change some characteristics. I liked the team, I mention Baschirotto for the mental growth he has had. He played really well against a phenomenal striker. The first goal was “strange”, something more could have been done on the second. Then it is clear that the differences derive from the different objectives between us and them“.
In the last two matches they had more space Johnsen and Moumbagna that in 2026 they could be important pawns for the Lombards. And Nicola comments like this: “You need to have a long team to keep up with certain teams like Napoli. The point is to understand when to do one thing or when to do the other, paying attention to the balance to avoid having to restart. Game strategies are constantly changing. Johnsen can play short and longwas in the tactical strategy conceived in the beginning. We wanted to try to attack the space more. Moumbagna attacks space well, he must have more minutes to be even more decisive. He needs to put fuel in his legs”.
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