On the eve of the match against Napoli, the Cremonese coach Davide Ballardini presented the match in a press conference. Here are his statements reported by Tmw.
Finally a week full of work. How did it go? Who won’t be there?
“It’s true, we finally worked for a whole week. It was a good week of training for those who are well and have had the opportunity to train, while others won’t be available”
How is the team mentally after the defeat against Lecce?
“The feeling is that we are all very disappointed because it was an important match, but the reaction was good because I see the commitment and desire to do better and well. But it is fair to say that Cremonese are the only team that played on Wednesday night Rome and then he played on Saturday at 3 pm, if it happened to a big one, all hell would happen. We take the consequences of not being able to play a game in the best conditions”
Between Naples and Cremonese there is an abyss in the standings
“True, but I also felt that in Rome it would have been better to lose: it’s silly. We would have lost energy anyway, we would have returned at five in the morning anyway. You try to play a good game and then you also hear yourself told that it was better to lose. “Napoli is a team that we met in the Cup, perhaps with several players who are not always regulars, but are part of a very important squad and are players of great depth. Tomorrow we will find a team that is certainly as concentrated as it has been since the beginning of the championship It will be a good test for us, a huge exam and we will try to face it in the best possible way”
How much does the ranking position weigh on a mental level?
“It weighs because dissatisfaction is great, but the only way to change things is this. Commitment, the desire to compete and do better, because it’s the only way. We have a group of guys who commits and wants to do well”
Dessers and Okereke aren’t at their best, which duo should we expect in attack?
“As forwards we have Afena-Gyan, Ciofani and Tsadjout. The coach must make mistakes as little as possible, but perhaps we exaggerate here. In this case, there are no big doubts”
Ciofani spoke of a fragile team, with little confidence. Agree?
“It’s true, but at the same time we spent almost all of our energy in Rome, there was no way to recover and when you go down in a situation like ours in which you have little physical and even less mental energy it can happen, but it doesn’t have to be like this. With Lecce it happened because we didn’t have the energy to play the match we were supposed to play, we needed to be intense and give depth to the game. We really didn’t have the energy, Lecce let you play and you were slow and predictable. even if more or less nothing happened for 60 minutes. If you are physically well and you are focused with your head, this shouldn’t happen.”
Is the Cremonese at ease when she has to manage energy and restart or when intensity is needed?
“To manage the match you need qualities and personalities that don’t have many teams in Serie A. For me, Cremonese is a team that can have the attention, humility and quality of play to do well even against teams of its level For example, I saw the team play on an equal footing with Lecce, with Spezia, with Bologna, with Empoli… I see all these differences between the Cremonese that plays against the medium-small and the one against the big non-l ‘I see, it’s clear that against the latter they have more possession, but the Cremonese keep the field well and when they have the ball, having more space, they try to counter in depth”
Could we see a single point attack?
“I don’t think so, the idea anyway is to have two forwards. Because then they have to be the first defenders, we have some who are very good from this point of view”
