Vincenzo Italiano in the post match has his say on those who excessively criticize the defensive phase of his Fiorentina
Vincenzo Italiano on Sky Sport, he reads the match against Empoli. This is his analysis:
“For me this is an accident that can happen. We were in seventh heaven after Napoli, I said anything could happen. Today Empoli punished us, both teams created. As usual, we created enough, we were careless in goal situations. Let’s put this disappointment aside and leave again on Thursday. When you lose you make defensive mistakes, and if you’re not concrete you lose matches. I think it was Fiorentina who won the matches by playing like this. Today they were better in the area than us”
On the tips: “At the end of the match I talk to the boys for a minute. A lot of people have passed inside the area, and our leaders have to be smarter and more cunning. Having our strikers at just one goal is a shame. We have to improve quickly on this fundamental. ‘Empoli conceded much more today than us. It seems like we are a team that doesn’t care about the defensive phaseit seems that since they won they are good in the defensive phase, they take care of it and we don’t. We had an avalanche of scoring opportunities, them 3-4. A bad night can happen, today with little attention behind us we lost.”