Fourth goal of the season for the Scotsman, the most important since he joined Torino: “Scoring today takes a lot of the pressure off us.” Vanoli: “Happy for him, he is understanding Italian football”
Tackle just before midfield won by Walukiewicz against Maleh, the ball reaches a few meters ahead to Vlasic who immediately passes it to Ché Adams: the Scot receives on the halfway line, without even looking at the goal but taking just a second to fix the ball on the right, he launches a ground-to-ground missile towards Vasquez’s goal, already the protagonist of a couple of exploits that had saved Empoli, but not this time, at the edge of the area too far from the goal to reach it. But how could he imagine? Total gem from Adams. Scoring three times in the first six matchdays but having not served for two and a half months now, his fourth goal of the season, his fourth in the grenade, is the best. For the eyes, and because it gets Torino’s ranking back in motion.
Adams’ words
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How such a thing could come to mind, Adams explains very naturally at the end of the match: “Preparing for the match we have the individual clips of the opponents and I knew that the Empoli goalkeeper is normally very far ahead. Remembering this, I tried to pull because I already had it in my head.” Best career goal? Definitely important: “Exactly, everyone knows that we were in a difficult period, scoring today takes the pressure off us a lot and allows us to look at the next matches differently – said the striker into Sky’s microphone -. Particular motivation after starting from the bench ? No, we all wanted to do well.”
vanoli on adams
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“I’m happy for Adams”, Paolo Vanoli’s comment on TV, relieved by Torino’s newfound success. “Attackers suffer when they don’t score: I felt sorry for Sanabria because Vasquez made a great save against him. Adams is understanding Italian football, he understood that he has to study the goalkeepers, the defenders, the opponents, because in Italy I told him that he would have found very tactical and prepared opponents, with very aggressive defensive lines on the man: he listened to me and tonight was a big reward for him.”
speak nonsense
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“When you come from so many negative results you always have to find the key so that the boys believe in what we are doing. I told them that to get a result we had to suffer: on a pitch where we hadn’t won since May 2022 and on which Napoli also came through with great effort. We did well at the start, then we managed to find the right fit and dribble better. I knew we could change the game on the run: congratulations to those who started but also to those who entered, we are a great group.”
vanoli on vlasic
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“When you experience these moments, after three games in which we had performed well without collecting, you start the match trying to be careful not to concede goals and attacks with less free mind. I said at half-time that we could and had to do more because we had the qualities to do it. When I brought in Vlasic I knew he was the player who could break this inertia and he was good at helping us, he is the man who with his qualities can change the face of this team. And I must say that Borna Sosa too he gave a great performance that we’ve been looking for a long time: they were good at coming out, now let’s put our feet on the ground and let’s recharge our batteries.”
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