Sampdoria, Giampaolo: “We will have to play every game as if it were the last”

On the eve of the match against Juventus, an opponent tomorrow, Saturday, at the “Ferraris”, Marco Giampaolo returns to the defeat in Udine and the statements made in the post-match season. «With my answer I didn’t understand where I am, I gave some material to the press and to those who frequent social networks – begins the coach at the conference -. It is clear that I was addressing my players because if I return to Sampdoria, after having been there for three years, I know where I am and I know the Sampdoria reality in every detail. I knew what I was up against: I know that we will have to fight until the end, that we need to raise the level of performance and that we will have to play every match as if it were the last, starting with the one that awaits us with Juventus ».

Level. How do you face an opponent who is hungry and eager to attempt the feat of getting back to the top of the standings? “Juventus is a team that knows how to take the things it has to take within a match, its history and the championship it is leading up to now tell us so – continues the coach -. After such a start, Allegri put it back on the right course and at the moment it is a conscious, strong team but I always appeal to performance and to the collective, as I always tell my boys. We cannot face them on an individual level, nor can we make a performance that is not up to the situation because the level of attention in these matches cannot be lacking ».