Before the home match against Milan, coach Leonardo Semplici comments on his team's momentum in the following way: "The match against Cremonese is unprecedented in my 19 years as coach, we always kept the ball of the game in our hands, created a lot of chances and at the final whistle not bringing home points made me angry and reflect a lot. We need to do something different, because what we have done so far has not brought us results and now the speeches stand at zero, we have too much to lose and starting on Saturday we will try to do our best against a very strong team.
In preparation for the match at "Zini" I told the boys to think about the match and not about its importance, about the tasks to be done and not about the pressure, and in these aspects we played with determination, continuity and grit, but the final defeat hurt us, that's why we met immediately the next day to analyze what happened. We want to play for salvation all the way and in the four games left we will have to bring the results home, giving everything we have at our disposal.
The numbers speak for themselves: in eleven games we have scored 8 goals and conceded 17, so despite the many chances created we have scored little and conceded too much. We will need a different focus in both phases, putting nastiness and concreteness to go and get everything we deserve.
Zurkowski is back and is an important return, even if he does not have a high minute count, while Nzola has been training all week with the group and is feeling good. The entire squad has worked with desire and determination to try to turn this season around, as early as Saturday, because regardless of the value of our opponents, we will have to try to leave the field with points in our pockets.
We will need more shrewdness in the defensive phase, and I am referring not only to the defense, but to the whole team, and then be more concrete in front. All of us want to save ourselves, we have always given everything and despite the negative moment none of the boys gave up, but on the contrary they did even more: there is great unity and desire to achieve salvation.
The Ownership is doing everything possible to be close to the team, at the moment even on their part there is all the will to achieve our goal and they are making it felt on every occasion and in every little detail: for us it is a really fundamental signal.
Shomurodov? We are also considering putting him on the field together with Nzola, we will see if in these final games there will be a chance to see them together already in the starting eleven, it is a possible solution that we are taking into account.
On Saturday we will have to start strong right away, limit their main qualities and give continuity to their recent performances, maybe trying not to concede goals at the first opposing offensive sortie but trying to go ahead ourselves."
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