Friends of Tuttonapoli, good evening and welcome to the direct text of the press conference of Rino Gattuso at the end of the victorious match against Riejka, valid for the third day of the Europa League grouping.
21.05 – The press conference begins
His opinion on the race. “That’s what we expected, they would have waited for us and then immediately go vertical. For me we also deserved to go down 2-0 in the first 30 minutes, sometimes embarrassing without preventive scoring, lots of improvisations, it seemed that we met this morning and we put on the shirt to play together. We had prepared it well because we knew it could put us in difficulty, I didn’t like the attitude, never a second ball won, never a run away, always two against two in each zone. In the second half we came out, we put them there, better in the preventives, in this moment we have to improve in the continuity of performance for 90 minutes. With AZ and Sassuolo we lost, but not with this effort today, we suffered their characteristics! By reviewing the mentality, we cannot have these ups and downs “.
What do you find positive? “After we did good things, when you find teams that are so closed you have to change something, we are keeping the full backs high, the wide backs inside the field, it was not easy even to dribble in this field where after 10 minutes there were already leaps. I saw the dribble, personality, we always came calmly to their goal. But we have to give continuity to the game times of the second half, if we play like this as a team … but you can’t always dribble and you have to fight, suffer, but I’m happy with the second half but you can’t risk it like that. If you lose a match like that, then cry and go and explain, you have to smell the danger first! The team has quality, but sometimes you have to put it aside! “.
Equal on points with AZ and Real Sociedad, can Rijeka influence by taking some points? “He is difficult to face, he is young and he knows how to play this kind of game if he holds up physically. I said it yesterday, he can throw it long but he also has technique and can beat anyone, in the Europa League there are no easy games and he has a mentality. to make everyone suffer, it made Real Sociedad also suffer and it is not easy. They will not give anything to anyone. “
21.18 – End the press conference
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