“I don’t want to raise an argument,” this is how Gennaro Gattuso began his speech after the Barcelona meeting. A conversation that was controversial, contrary to the opinion of the Napoli coach.
Barcelona beat Napoli, 3-1, to qualify for the Champions League quarter-finals. (See details)
Gattuso did not hide his anger at the loss, Saying: “There is a lot of regret, because we stopped the good performance with which we started the match. We stopped for 30 minutes and scored 3 goals.”
“We conceded three ridiculous goals from huge mistakes. We put Barcelona under pressure and we should have scored twice at the start of the match, but instead we were hit,” he added in his remarks reported by Sky Italia.
“I am very angry at receiving goals from set balls. This drives me crazy.”
“I always say we have some very strong and talented players in our team, but we need to move forward from the winning mentality side. Our mentality is not good enough.”
Gattuso cited the match statistics to demonstrate the superiority of his team, From his point of view, he said: “Look at the match statistics. The domination was ours, not Barcelona. We paid twice their goal, the possession was ours, and we were easily penetrating their defenses. You can see the size of the suffering for Barcelona in the second half.”
He added, “I heard some say that Barcelona played in a reserve formation! I never saw that on the pitch at all. I saw a formation of hundreds of millions and we played as a team, but unfortunately we did not succeed.”
“It has been 7-8 years since the last time a team beat Barcelona at home in doubling the number of shots, and the possession ratio was 57% versus 43% for Barcelona. We did but it really annoys me that we did not benefit from that. When you give Barcelona Only an inch, they will take advantage of the opportunities, and we did not. “
“Barcelona did not leave half of their stadium in the first 10 minutes of the match. I saw better than the good performance of my players. I don’t want to arouse controversy, I am just disappointed,” he noted.
“I am disappointed that we were really able to hurt them. I felt that the Barcelona that we faced was not good at all. We broke through their defenses but we did not succeed in scoring and we did many incorrect passes, and I am very angry about that.”
Relationship with Kiki and private message
Gattuso touched on his relationship with Barcelona coach Quique SetienHe reveals, “Kiki knows that I’ve been following him for years.”
“We communicated together before and we both see sports the same way,” he explained.
“Setien has some very interesting perspectives on football,” he added.
Gattuso’s provocative comments ended, and the smile returned to his destination as soon as a question about Andrea Pirlo was mentioned.
After Gattuso, they laughed at the appointment of Pirlo as technical director of Juventus,: “Well it messed up now. That was my plan for the future.”
“Pirlo is lucky to start his coaching career with Juventus, but that profession is not enough for him to be a great player in the past in order to succeed.”
He explained, “You have to study, work hard and not sleep much. Being a coach is completely different to being a player. It is a completely different profession that we cannot learn from books. You have to break into it and work hard to succeed.”
Barcelona hit a fiery date expected next Friday in front of Bayern Munich in Lisbon in the quarter-finals of the Champions League one-match system.
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