At the end of the home match against Lecco, Aquilotto coach Luca D'Angelo comments on his team's performance as follows: "In my opinion we did very well until Lecco's equalizer, surely we would have deserved a larger lead, their goalkeeper was very good, then in the second half we struggled mentally. After the expulsion of the Lecco player we tried until the end, putting a lot of balls in the box, but we couldn't score.
My regret, however, is for not having doubled in the first half, when we were hardly risking anything. We also have to think that these games many times are lost, so today I say we earned a point, I want to see it that way. We should have scored more goals in the first half, that's the big disappointment.
Honestly until the equalizing goal, physically we were fine, then the team blamed the equalizing goal; before we were confident, we were playing very well, isolating in one-on-ones Verde and Elia on the outsides. In the second half we were worried, the team developed actions not well, and then in the dying moments of the game we lacked the winning kick to go ahead again.
We knew that by defending in four they would struggle to slide on the outsides and in fact our outsides played a lot of balls. Lecco gave more density centrally, so Falcinelli had more men on them, but we expected this kind of game.
Nikolaou felt an adductor problem during the game, that's why he asked for a change, as did Falcinelli who was not well during the week, but we still wanted to risk him and that's why he didn't finish the game today.
Kouda has been working all week with us, next week he can get more minutes, he has a good leg, he has great freshness and physicality so he will definitely do well.
The guys care a lot about the situation, we are playing a lot, we know that, however I think that being a team with very good play, if we give continuity to the game we had in the first half, we can really do well. The difficulties are there, in soccer as well as in life, but we have to face them with more calm.
In Parma I expect a luckier game than in the first leg, where we played well but ended with an injury that penalized us; the difficulty of the game is high, dictated by the value of the opponent, but I think we will have chances to win it".
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