YOUNG – “We talked about how to approach young people. We talked about it at the course in Coverciano. Dynamics and new worlds for us, we talk, he did very well in the Primavera, I also coached the Primavera. It’s a particular question, this new generation is a little different. We always continue to talk to discuss and get new ideas.”
A LITTLE TIME – “How are we not used to it? We want to prepare and win the match with the calendar they have given us. We always want to find the solution, I trust everyone: everyone can play or come in. Then maybe there are those who are more ready, with the right characteristics. We have demonstrated this with our abilities, I am convinced that we can do it again on Saturday”.
CHOICES – “There are those who recover better than others. I have to test who is prepared, who isn’t. There are those who have played 3 games and all of them well. I have to trust the players, they have to take the responsibility of giving me what I need. Then there’s the match, each one presents a different context. We’re in a moment of the season where we’re all tired, you’ve played for 8 months and then we’ll play for the Cup by going to Milan. We have to enjoy the moment, but it’s time to pedal.”
ITALIAN CUP – “Missed opportunity? No, honestly not. We prepared the match in one way, we could have done better or worse, after the match we are all phenomena talking. We played a lot against Inter, we know what team they are, that they are waiting for you to press there. We played against Inter in a Cup semi-final after 40 years, we had 3 great opportunities to score, even with Nico Paz and they didn’t reach the goal. Regret? I’d like to know how many times in recent years Inter have scored 0.07 xG. If we had lost our way in the last few minutes and they had scored 0-1, I wouldn’t have slept. But how were Sergi Roberto, Nico Paz, Caqueret… if you’re used to always seeing a team do this with Inter, good for you. Then we didn’t do well with Vojvoda and Valle to score the goal and go 1-0 in the second leg, ok più gol di quello che avevamo fatto in passato. Comunque grande partita della squadra, oggi se giochi anche con la squadra più scarsa del mondo ti fanno due tiri. Abbiamo controllato molto bene l’Inter, sono contento della prestazione, ma se c’è gente molto esigente che la pensa in maniera diversa… io poi sono aperto a tutto. Ma avremmo meritato di vincere 1-0. Dispiacere? Sarebbe più grande se avessimo perso 0-1. Dopo 40 anni andiamo a Milano tra 7 settimane a giocarcela. È impossibile? Niente è impossible. When the time comes we will prepare it with the right awareness.”
KEMPF – “Kempf is fine, he trained today. He didn’t train on Tuesday. But everyone was fine. I’m very happy even if I have 20 players, but the perfect number to prepare for the matches. Let’s create foundations and principles anyway, we’re in a second part where we can start to see how far we can go. But we can discover who we are, let’s go win and push until the end. We must always find solutions, whoever is best prepared at this moment to win will always be my first choice.”
YOUNG – “Every player is a world. If we think that a player is very prepared, he will go to Serie A. But he has to play, that’s the important thing. Do you reply to Catanzaro? For Aquilani and the environment, we have the staff that analyzes the matches. Come in or not come in, no one will tell you that he will play 50 matches, if they have to earn it every day in training. There is also the physical: some are better prepared and others are not. Even on a mental level. It’s a study, you can’t make a mistake in the decision. may be good, but if it goes to the wrong context? Maybe we don’t see it anymore and we’ve lost a talent.
RAMON – “His numbers don’t surprise me. For our game he was perfect. The only doubt we had was about competing in Italian football, how he will adapt, in a football like he plays so much duel. He raised his level a lot, with the ball it doesn’t surprise me, I knew he was this type of player but there are some players who surprise you a little in one context or another. But it’s different, there are some players who are made of another stuff. If he stays the year next? Yes.”
DOUVIKAS – “I like Tasos a lot, it’s true that there is growth. Everywhere he has been, he has scored goals. There are things about posture and attacking depth in which he can improve to become top. But he scores goals from nothing, he fights and he is always there.”
SMOOTH – “I don’t remember a match in which he made a mistake, only the penalty he committed at the end against Venezia. Technically? I’ve always said he’s a ‘7’ or an ‘8’, even from outside you say he had a great performance. Sometimes he underestimates himself. He plays against Yildiz, certainly the most dribble-loving player in Serie A, in Como with the yellow card in the 20th-25th minute and he always does well. He gives me an incredible guarantee, as a coach this is gold. Afterwards it could be that he has improved in some choices, it’s true that he’s improving a lot and is raising his level. I’m happy, we signed him for very little, if I tell you what he earns… we need to renew his contract immediately, on merit. When you see the whole context and analyze it you say he’s a phenomenon.”
EUROPE ZONE – “I don’t expect anything at the start of the season. I just want to find the best condition and the right context. In the second step you have to try things, maybe even lose points and make mistakes, things that you will revisit in the future and say ‘remember’. So a coach and a staff can build something important. Da Cunha recovers well for example, with Sergi Roberto I don’t play every 3 days, I don’t want to lose him and he has shown that he has difficulties in terms of injury. For these last 11 championship games I hope to go and fight for the three points.”
WRONG GOAL WALL – “He arrived with a lot of speed, his posture was wrong. It was a goal that you certainly score 9 times out of 10 in training. There is a small deviation from the Inter defender who deflects the ball anyway, but he knew he could have done better. It’s like taking a penalty: there are people who make 10 attempts and 10 goals, but in a match with pressure etc. it’s different. We have to be good at consolidating opportunities, in a normal world it’s a goal.”
INTERNAL TRAINING – “It’s the most difficult context. When you play against teams that play every 3 days it’s complicated, with turnovers and more. We prepare the match for how they normally play, then based on the injuries, what we can hear or read we prepare. What can we do in that case? We have a plan B or C separately, prepared. Then we go to the pitch, among the players they know who will have to play, but it could be that Diouf plays the midfielder and Frattesi doesn’t. But you see him there, you manage him better at the moment, not It’s easy. If you change coach a week before, why did you choose Da Cunha? It was a very good match, playing with Jesus Rodriguez is different.”
TRAINING – “I never think about what the other might think, but what we can do. Maybe in thinking something different. There are 2-3 games a year that can change your characteristics a little, yes, but in general we try to think about how we can hurt the other team. I saw Di Francesco’s press conference in the pre-match, which had a plan A and a plan B. We all always want to find the solution to create the problem for the other team.”
OUTBOUND CAGLIARI – “What can we do to improve? Obviously goals and attacking better. We were on holiday, that match made me think a lot because I said ‘we can’t be so superior and create little’. Sometimes mistakes make you grow, even that match changed the season a bit on a defensive level. With my assistant we look at the best teams how they attack, Bayern Munich and Chelsea, how they do badly in low blocks. We worked on it in 10 days, a lot, and against Torino we scored.”
GOD AND JESUS – “Diao can play with Jesus Rodriguez together. He can also play as a striker, in a context where teams come to attack you high. Can he play from the start? Yes, but not the whole 90 minutes.”
RECOVERY – “Yes, now above all recovery is fundamental. The day before the match we do some mechanisms, we do very short but intense training sessions. Other times we put more load as if it were a match. We do a training session where the physical data say that it is as if we had done it. Physically we are prepared all week to be strong at the weekend, but it depends on the game model and the coach’s mentality. I wanted to continue playing football, but why did I stop? Because then I had to run immediately after 12 kilometres, I was frustrated and I wanted to do the coach. I think short out, a lot of intensity and clear ideas, then rest, video, physiotherapist, gym. We’re here for 7-8 hours together. Others want to stay out for 2 and a half hours and don’t believe in prevention. When you play in Europe there’s a much higher quality, I’ve never won the Champions League, you’re playing at the highest level and anyone can win. Galatasaray. Italian football is not that far behind.”
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