The Granata coach examining one of the league leaders: “We want to erase those carelessness, often even individual ones, which have marked some matches”
Starting again after the two setbacks against Como and Lecce, finding the continuity of the previous six matches, in which six useful results arrived in a row and victories like the one against league leaders Napoli. On Monday at the Olimpico Grande Torino another league leader will arrive, AC Milan, and Marco Baroni tries to charge the Granata.
work hard
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Before the coach’s press conference, it was announced that Ivan Ilic, Ardian Ismajli and Giovanni Simeone worked on the pitch with an individual program in the morning training session. “I’ll try to get Ismajli back for the next match against Cremonese – explains Baroni -, this week we weren’t able to have him but there could be a glimmer of opportunity for the next match. Ditto for Simeone: it would have been risky to send him on the pitch 21 days after his injury, so we preferred to bring the possibility of having him to the next match. We have to work hard on the guys we have available.”
toxins
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Baroni explained how the work was carried out during the week, to dispose of the toxins of the last two defeats and prepare for the match against Allegri’s Milan: “We are working on our heads, individually and as a team. We are looking for continuity, we want to remove those inattentions, often individual ones, which have marked some matches. It is only the work that leads us to fill these gaps. Milan are a great team, but the fact that we beat Roma and Napoli has nothing to do with it. I don’t delegate anything to the fact that we showed great results against the big teams. Attention will certainly be needed, but in general a perfect match will be needed.” “We have to improve in the last meters of the game, in defense as in attack – continued the Torino coach -. It’s that meter, that ball that makes the difference. You can’t be careful on 9 balls out of 10, because that one ball you don’t follow is the one you pay for. This is happening to us, we make mistakes that pollute a match which then becomes an uphill battle. Then in Lecce as on other occasions we also demonstrated that we know how to restart matches. There was an error from the spot but the team tried to get it back on its feet. We have to start from here. This is the work we do, we aim to improve in the last meters of the game.”
overall reading
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Baroni also gave an overall interpretation of this first phase of the championship: “We are looking for the consistency and continuity that the team has found in 6 matches even against important opponents. During this period there were moments that put me in difficulty, which forced me to find solutions. With Como we were in the game until the 70th minute, then some passes arrived that the team cannot afford, we are aware of this as a staff and as a team. I look forward, because if you look back you lose time and you lose your way. I look forward with determination and conviction. We are aware of the missteps made in these two matches, they are empty passes that we cannot afford against Milan. We need a hundred minutes of great attention, ball after ball.”
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