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13.20 – The eve of the championship at Spezia, where José Mourinho’s Roma will arrive at the Peak tomorrow. In a few minutes, from the Ferdeghini sports center, the coach of the Eagles Luca Gotti he will meet the press for the usual pre-match conference, in which the momentum of the Ligurians and the danger of the match against the Giallorossi will be analysed. Follow his words thanks to the direct written by TMW!
13.38 – The press conference begins.
Kiwior left, Nzola injured today.
“They are things of football, things of the reality of what happens and the ability of the fact to surprise us and to which we have to react.”
A lefty is missing, how to replace Kiwior and Nikolaou?
“It’s not a problem to make up for the absence, the problem is the absence of the two players and Nzola. You have to change things that were working, you found lines and playing times, but changing the players changes the characteristics, and you don’t have much time to prepare the appropriate things for how I see football, compared to a match as important as the one against Roma”.
Do you have three out of three results tomorrow?
“No, we have to go on the pitch to score points as always. Things get complicated, but Spezia are trying to score points and are not satisfied with honorable defeats. We have to make the most of the players’ strengths”.
A few words about the new ones?
“Esposito played an excellent game, considering the general picture. Ninety minutes with Atalanta is a prestigious baptism, with a difficult difficulty coefficient. Zurkowski has a little problem, but unless today’s training tells me something different, I would like him to be available, both to start and to enter the match in progress. We will evaluate his problem after tomorrow’s match. As for the two youngsters, I only saw them on video. Yesterday they did half a workout. I liked them both a lot on video. Cipot has always played, Krollis instead is as if it were in July, he has been out for a month and it is as if he were on the third day of preparation. Even thinking about throwing him in given the situation makes one It’s like it’s July 3 and I don’t know if he’s ready to play tomorrow’s match”.
What offensive approach can you have?
“It’s not easy to answer, both theoretically and practically. I’ll try to think of the best solutions.”
Is Green ready after the match against Atalanta?
“I think it’s the most logical solution, even more so for a home game against this opponent. I didn’t think he would have played ninety minutes in Bergamo, but he has this characteristic that he can recover during the match. He seems to be declining and then recovers, what which he did by satisfying me in Bergamo. I had no intention of letting him start tomorrow and that’s why I kept him on the pitch throughout the match against Atalanta, now let’s review things and try to think about it. An important aspect is that we face an opponent who he has scored more points away than at home and that he has scored more than 50% of his goals from a standstill.They have an important physical structure like Atalanta, and with Atalanta on the first ball into the box we conceded the goal, given that we conceded kilos and centimeters. Roma are very strong in these situations from set pieces. What Green can’t give you in your area, he can give you in the opponent’s box.”
How did the team react after the knockout in view of a match against a big player?
“It’s not a matter of big players, there are 19 teams in Serie A with us, with 38 matches. We are having continuity of results, an important aspect for a team like Spezia. The big players have nothing to do with it, we must continue like this and make the leap in quality. Events that have happened take something away from you, but we must have this goal”.
Roma don’t create much but don’t suffer much. How do you deal with it?
“I can also think about directing the match, but Roma can easily change your match plan. They have very strong players, they are a team that is extremely dangerous from set pieces, when they restart with enormous quality. There is the construction aspect of your game which must include pre-emptive markings. Roma have scored 12 goals in the last half hour, seven in the last minutes, as often happens. Let’s think about our absences, but I also have to think about who ends the game, as well as who begins it”.
Looking at the future, Kiwior is a satisfaction to have sold in the Premier and to have convinced players like Zurkowski and Esposito.
“I am very happy for Kwior and for the opportunity created. At the same time it is the club’s best sale ever and I probably think that the club is also happy, and hopefully it will be at the end of the journey as well. I’m not happy for myself. There they are coaches who ask for reinforcements and signings, constantly complaining. I will never do it, but fate has befallen me in recent years that in every transfer market the club where I am makes large capital gains and market assets. When there is a market surplus it doesn’t mean that you take poor players, but that more ready players leave. Sometimes you take young players who are not necessarily poor, you take experienced players who come from difficult moments. It always takes time and you work and build on it. You try to improve players and team, but in fact you don’t fully enjoy the fruits of your work because every time it’s a restart and a readjustment”.
Compared to the new arrivals, are you satisfied?
“The path will tell us. I don’t do the market, when I’m asked I give my opinion and then there’s talk football, where we can say anything. Then there’s real football and that will give us the answer “.
13.54 – The conference closes.
