Cagliari comes out defeated 2-0 from the Olympic Stadium Grande Torino. Davide Nicola: “We didn’t play the game we wanted to do, also thanks to Turin”

In the advance of the Twenty -two day Of Serie A, Turin And Cagliari They faced each other in a challenge that saw the grenade impose itself 2-0. After the clear 4-1 victory against Lecce in the previous day, the Cagliari by Davide Nicola came out defeated by Olympic Stadium Grande Torino. With this result, i grenade lengthen in the standings, reaching 26 points, taking five lengths ahead of the Sardinianwhich remain temporarily in fourteenth place.

Nicola’s words in the post game

In the post-match, Davide Nicola commented on the performance of his team to the microphones of DAZN: “We lost because we were more tired and we did not arrive with the right level of energy “.

A different Cagliari than what we have seen in the last games …

“I agree. Tonight the boys gave everything as usual but objectively we were more tired. We have spent a lot in these last three games, both at the level of mental and physical energy. We are trying to give changes, someone is playing really a lot. The physicality suffered … they were better and they deserved to win “.

Does the quadruple change at the beginning of the second half derives from this tiredness that she perceived in her boys?

“At this moment we have not many alternatives. Luvumbo has been absent for some time now, so on the outsiders with happy and zortea every now and then we have adapted Augello. Objectively, the same hoe, like many others, are playing really too many games And, after spenting so much in these last three, and in the light of the next game, which arrives in 5 days, it is normal not to be able to have the right energy to contrast with a qualitative team such as Turin. Energy to hope to reopen the game. It can stay. “

Cross could be a key, but the team struggled to climb. The difficulty was also not to shorten on the two attackers …

“Yes, we were a middle ground because when we had to raise the pressure we could not manage the numerical equality so to cover the field at speed, and when we were a little lower, it was difficult to start again. evening, the team in general has resentful of the great effort made in the previous three games. match”.

On Gaetano, at the conference on the eve, she said she has to play “with light -heartedness and intensity at the same time”. Did he see him a little undertone today?

“No, I believe that today on the other side there were physical and very aggressive players. It was not easy to be able to collect the ball and get rid of the opponent’s suffocating pressure. When it is so you have to try to keep blow physically and be able to manage more Speed ​​the ball. but this happens when you are in the optimal condition and today, as I said, it was not so. Merit of Turin, a bit for what I said before “.

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