The words of the Biancoceleste coach, who spoke after the final whistle of the match directly from the press room of the Bentegodi stadium
The third is the good one: after a defeat and a draw comes the first victory of 2025 for the Laziowhich beats the Verona and thus regains fourth place in the standings. At the end of the match, the Biancoceleste coach analyzed the match in a press conference Marco Baroni. These are his words.
How important is this victory?
“I’m proud of this team. There was a difficult moment, also from a numerical and injury point of view. I saw a team that showed me a positive side, that doesn’t give up during difficulties. Few of us trained, players played with only one session on their legs. Now we have recovered some players, some are still missing. Vecino is stratospheric and has always given us a great hand. Today it was attitude that mattered, I told the team not to think it was easy. We also saw it in the final minutes of the first half, when the team felt they were dominating the pitch. As soon as we gave up they created two situations. It was a match that we took on the right path. Today it wasn’t easy to face each other, we did what we have always cultivated. A strong identity that I have always talked about, I’m happy”.
Why did he leave Verona?
“I gave my all here. The company knows it, we had a meeting with the director and they understood that it wasn’t easy. The beauty remains when I return here with the awareness of having given everything in a complicated year”.
Is Verona in third last place?
“Zanetti is doing a good job, the team has the resources to make the championship. You know it’s difficult, these are championships in which you have to fight to the end but it’s part of the path that the club knows”.
Are you looking up or down in the rankings?
“I look forward in work, in growth. We need it, it’s no coincidence that we faced this long week well given the much work we put into it. We have recovered important players. Now we have to recover, on Thursday there is an important and fundamental match for us. We will play it at home against a very high level opponent, they are strong and we will be counted behind because we only have four defenders due to the two suspensions. But I want the team to recover energy because on Thursday there is a new important match for us to make”.
“Lots of names going around. Director Fabiani spoke about the transfer market, we have to know how to manage this transfer window but the attention goes to the guys I have, to making this team grow. It is not easy to improve these players, we must not take for the sake of taking. My focus is just there”.
Why hasn’t he deployed the Dia-Castellanos tandem recently?
“We really had numerical difficulties. We lost Pedro in Lecce, I brought Noslin on the bench in two games but he wasn’t presentable, he’s still not very well. He’s on the road to recovery anyway. We had other problems, players who didn’t train well. You know about Dia, clearly if I have them I’ll put them on the field. But sometimes it is not easy to manage from the point of view of the energy spent. This is why I’m talking about Vecino: I can’t wait to have him back because with Dele he offers us alternatives to be able to change the system and not lose anything. I want this team to attack, the team must play this football. He plays with joy and I’m pleased, with the enthusiasm necessary to play this type of football”.
Where does Ibrahimovic plan to use it?
“He is a young man, he has important qualities and is interesting. I’ve seen him in many roles, I want to center him in one role. For me, more than on the outside, he must be inside the pitch as an attacking midfielder or as a quality midfielder. We talked about what he’s missing but I made him tell me, I expect him at work. If you put these things in, you can help us out”.
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