Venice, Zanetti: “This painful victory is a new beginning”

Venice’s fifth league victory arrives on the Turin field, 83 days after the win at Bologna. Coach Paolo Zanetti commented on the match on Sky Sport: “The truth is that as we expected Torino arrived very aggressive and we weren’t there with the distances, we couldn’t duel with them. So we put ourselves in the mirror, we surprised them about duels. We absolutely had to bring out something more, we came from a period in which we were a bit with water in our throats and in the end these three points arrived ”.

“The ranking? We have never looked at it – explains the green-orange mister -, also because we have one game less. We had to be aware of our means, we faced almost all of the first in the standings and it was foreseeable that we would have difficulties. Today a painful victory arrived, it is a new beginning but above all a temperamental response from the team. Last year we had a very specific soul after the promotion and it was decided to dismantle it. Searching for a soul isn’t easy, we’ve changed 20 players. The common language is that of the field, I have seen good things done, but from a character point of view we lacked something. Even today we risked seeing the old ghosts again. The mental expression is what we still lack more than the technical one. Today we had to change something, Svoboda was very good, he played an important game. He is an absolute duelist and comes out in these games. I don’t want to get the message across that new kids don’t have a soul, but we have made choices to raise the technical rate, perhaps losing something in terms of identity. Ours is a long-term project “. They then ask him as if he is studying English and he replies: “When I got here the main problem was talking to the president, we are gambling our lives and therefore somehow I had to make myself understood”.

Mattia Caldara spoke in the post-match in Dazn: “In the first twenty minutes we didn’t shorten well and we didn’t have the right distances on the pitch. Then we moved on to the three-man defense and we knew then that we had to play man against man. So we managed to overturn the game. It was a great test of character, and that was what we needed. A draw would have been heavy, so today it went well. These are three very important points for us. Now there are 14 games left, and we have to win as many games as possible and hit 40 points. We know what we can do and today we have proved it. I’m happy, I thank Venezia, the coach and the staff because it wasn’t easy after years of continuous injuries. Now I have to help Venice save themselves “.