Press conference by Luciano Spalletti pre Napoli Sassuolo. Before the match Naples Sassuolospeaks in Spalletti conference for Napoli football before the away match for the 35th matchday of A league. Su FootballNaples24 Spalletti’s live conference.
Napoli Sassuolo: Spalletti at the press conference. The SSC Napoli coach spoke live before the match. Spalletti speaks for Napoli football in the conference. Here is what was highlighted by CalcioNapoli24:
“The certainties of this week are those traced by the president. He showed great sensitivity, trying to bring all the components together and reinforce that single body that gave us satisfaction during the season. His presence stimulates the players, he talked to all the boys at the tables. She starts from the compact and strong group that wants to reach the Champions League.
Future? We haven’t talked about anything. We want to do well in these four games, we have this at heart and we don’t want to think about anything else. My future is tomorrow’s match. And if you ask me about the future of my profession, it is to have another year of contract plus an option for the club and I want to stay in Naples as a coach. I feel great in this city and role and I don’t see any problems.
Spalletti how are you? I am not happy with the last result and the attitude of the team as no player and no member of the club is happy. But then you have to zoom out, talking about the situation and trying to prevent it from happening again. It is clear that we were good at creating an important opportunity but we weren’t good at exploiting it. In its entirety, looking at the whole season, I’m very happy with this result. We are fighting for the Champions League, it was what we wanted at the beginning.
I expect the team to have a correct reaction to what happened, even if in that result I see many things done well. Then others hurt, but those 10 minutes that cost a lot for technical errors: like that of having been long as a team and led us to undergo restarts. We prepare the clips to show to the team and we study what we must not repeat. Such a sensational result creates a reaction and the wrenches of various quarrels are brought out but none of this has happened.
Ingolosito? I believed in it because, in some moments, the team showed that they were playing fantastic football and was able to react to defeats. In the moment of pushing on the gas, we could have been fighting with those teams in the lead but we didn’t make it. We have happened several times to leave spots on the road that could be taken home. We look at reality and take home what happened. However, we have been fighting for the Champions League from the first game and this is our goal. We managed to get 3-4 teams out of that condominium, and today it looks like they are having a great championship. Let’s reason it correctly. The disappointment of not having fully participated in the fight, we are sorry. Above all, we are sorry for our fans who made us feel important until the end.
Mertens e Osimhen? I rate it in a positive way, they made some good plays. They are two problematic players for opposing defenses but it is clear that then I am a fan of Mertens as a player, but being a coach I also have to think about a team balance. Inside the game, when I said that technically, in the analysis, we were not good at being short and having the departments, even though Mertens also has characteristics as a midfielder, must lead us to have greater balance. Tomorrow they can also play together, they can always do it but against Sassuolo it will be an uncomfortable match. If they keep the ball, it becomes a very difficult match.
Few fans at Maradona? (Nicola Lombardo intervenes: ‘We are over 20 thousand fans at the stadium’) It is difficult not to come to the stadium for the Neapolitans and not to be in love with Napoli. I think that, for what was expressed to me, despite being embittered by fans in love with these colors, they will be able to give us support. I always hope to find myself together with fans like this, who react in this way to difficulties. Nice reactions even if sorry, easy to read: they love Napoli and want to try to achieve more and more results.
Do the other teams run more? It is always part of that technical speech I made before: when you are in the offensive phase and you stay with a footballer or two above the line of the ball and they force you to do 100 meters back, from the eye of the spectator, it appears to you as a difficulty of the physical condition of the team. Not so, it’s a tactical thing, if you don’t have balance, you must immediately attack and win back the ball but if the reaction is wrong, you go into difficulty. I don’t like a kick from the penalty area and waiting for the opponents: I can’t explain it, I can’t. We want to go get the ball and score goals. If we take many restarts and there are moments where we lose balance, we seem out of condition but our data does not give us different results to normal.
Terms of Meret? Meret is like all those who make a mistake. He didn’t make a mistake on his own, I did it too when I ask him to always play the ball and not throw it away as he would like to do sometimes. The goalkeeper, if he is not already, will become an outfield player: the goalkeeper must not only save but build and start the action. These young coaches, even abroad, come on you and make man against man, so it is not easy to start the action and you have to rely on a good goalkeeper with his feet. Everyone is looking for them. In doing this and improving this quality, there is a possibility of being wrong. A mistake like many others, I made the first one to force him to do this. Then some comrades could give him an extra hand. Then there are those who say they had to get the ball first. In short, we are all involved, the player worked in the right way. For tomorrow, I have two strong goalkeepers, we’ll see.
Demme? He is fine, he is called up, he is within the possibilities of being chosen: a footballer who knows how to do more things, an exceptional professional and an intelligent boy. He has qualities that are easy to find, he knows how to turn the ball. A physically strong one despite his physical size. He enters the tackles but you can’t ask him to take the opponents’ referrals. He jumps and puts quality into it, he can play in front of the defense, low midfielder and knows how to adapt in multiple roles. He is one who is very willing to sacrifice.
Di Lorenzo? It has thickness, the right thing, it goes into the super strong, into the extra. He gives everything on the pitch and is looking for new things. You don’t have to find the solution, he does it himself. Taciturn but a leader, having him is different from not having him. We need to evaluate well for tomorrow but Zanoli has done his part, in perspective he is a strong player and has things that resemble Di Lorenzo. He needs more experience. Let’s evaluate today’s reaction, Di Lorenzo did well, but that’s what he chooses.
Set off again next year to win with Mertens and Ospina? One step at a time, we must all now be oriented to rally around our goal. If it used to be everything, now it is much more. We have to qualify for the next Champions League. When we were first, we could also talk about something else, now we have to think about tomorrow’s race which is difficult. Inside there is the possibility to be qualified and get on the bus that leads to the most beautiful tournament in the world. Something beautiful that we must bring to life for our fans. “
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