With only one point gained in the first three days and two of the three penalty points still to be paid, the SPAL is preparing to face tomorrow the Six Levantine. A match, the one in Liguria, on which the coach of the Estensi, Andrea Dossena he expressed himself during the usual pre-match press conference:
“Facing a week of work after Sunday’s defeat was not easy… the first to be disappointed were the boys. We analyzed the gross errors made, but also the good things seen because the data tells us that there were those too. We know that we cannot concede three goals per game, but we have to keep our morale high, we have to regroup as soon as possible and continue to work hard as we have been doing for the last two months.
Physically we are arriving, the boys are fine, the injured players are coming back so I would say that from this point of view it was a good week. With Awua we are proceeding calmly to avoid compromising his situation, Karlsson on the other hand is recovering, he will be in the squad and we will also evaluate his commitment based on the progress of the match. All the others are available.
We have thought about changing the module, we could adopt some measures, but to completely change the module it takes weeks of work and at this moment it would not even be right to throw away the work done, surely in some phases of the match we will be able to show up with a different formation based on the needs and situations that we will find ourselves facing during the match.
Mistakes hurt the boys more than me, they were aware of it, they did self-criticism even before we analyzed the game and they are the first ones who can’t wait to redeem themselves. So I repeat: analysis and self-criticism are good, but today what matters is the collective growth of the group for the good of Spal.
We are in touch with the president and with all the other members of the Club, we are all sorry, the situation is frustrating for me too because I have never started a season like this, but we have to keep the course straight and be rational. We are trying to do all this, obviously we can’t wait to bring home a first victory that will give us the go-ahead to start with momentum because I am sure that then we will get some satisfaction”.