First to appear in the press room this afternoon – at Sinigaglia – is young Brescianini, who turned the game around a bit with his “input-onfire.” Two assists to Retegui, two goals and the comeback over Como. Then Coach Gasperini arrives and does not hide the tension he had, on the sidelines, with Fabregas. A few words between them although then everything was resolved. “I saw that Fabreas was on a high…a bit much…However I congratulate Como, it always gives me good feelings.” Then the analysis of the match, He disagrees about the wrong approach to the Como match: “Always positive approach of my team, today they had difficulties to build game. They more energy and liveliness than us, we built little. The thing is they couldn’t get a good push on the flanks and our forwards didn’t get into the game. The changes changed everything, the team was dangerous and Como I don’t think made dangerous situations. In the second half different inertia. Morale always good, we don’t let anything scratch us: now to Barcelona to play with pride, we miss this among the bigs in Europe. I think it is pride for us and for the fans to go and play in Champions by them with qualification already obtained in the playoffs.”
Then Fabregas arrives and immediately clarifies that he – unlike some journalists – saw the match differently: “I don’t know what to say, I saw a different game from you journalists. It depends on what you look at: we also had the injury to Moreno, Perrone very good, I keep the game, the competition, the boys’ desire to do well. I saw that Atalanta struggled a lot, with their strong bench then made the difference. Congratulations to Atalanta…..” And then the tension with bench colleague Gasp…. “Was there tension with him ? A little bit yes, I never talk to the referee, he did and often he also yelled. I think we needed more respect for us, but who am I to say that ? No, no, I don’t say anything about the referee, we could have handled things better and some plays. Nothing to say, they win the game with the strongest player they have. Tough game, it is always difficult here with us. Injuries ? Confidence in all the guys, we work hard to do well, the team is growing and doing many things well. We prepared the game well, it gives me strength as a coach. Proud of them and for what we have done so far.”
And finally Yannik Engelhardt, today deployed by Cesc in a position different from his own. He did well and deserves everyone’s compliments. His words: “You can avoid a defeat like that, we played a good first half. Then resumption of quality of Atalanta. They could have done better yes, they are a team of great quality and they won. Some regret remains. My position ? Never played in this role, I saw it as a challenge and tried to do my best. At the moment I think it was a temporary solution due to injury of one of my teammates. I tried to do my best.” And then a confirmation and an admission from the German boy: “One quality of great teams is not needing so many chances to score: they scored two goals in a few minutes. We two chances and didn’t score. Retegui is a great striker, he doesn’t need big chances to score twice. And on this we have to improve…..”
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