The Albania defender spoke at a press conference today Mario Mitaj he spoke in view of the next match against Croatia: “Who can be the hero against Croatia? I believe that in general we can all fight to play at our best with the national team. We have players like Broja with his qualities and Asani with his shots. Let’s play as best we can and bring the national team as high as possible. We have forgotten the match against Italy. Now we prepare as best we can, we analyze the opponent and we will enter the field with the same personality.
The future in Serie A? At the moment I’m not thinking about the future, I’m only thinking about the national team and the two games that are missing. The match with Italy? Everyone was surprised that the goal was scored very quickly and we got a little emotional and went back on defense. Normally, when you play against an opponent like Italy, you find spaces and score goals.
The coach spoke to us little, he told us that we had a good performance. What we need to improve are the set pieces even if we worked a lot. Qualification opportunities? We are preparing and have analyzed Croatia well. We want to get on the pitch and play our football. Now we are only interested in Croatia and if we get the best results we will see the match against Spain.
Fan criticism? It’s not nice to criticize a player who has given so much for the national team. Hysaj gave his soul for the national team, it’s not such a good thing. Everyone criticizes him. The atmosphere in the team? The atmosphere in the team doesn’t change, it’s very good. We are a very close-knit team, all of Albania has seen it, we will continue like this. We are in Europe and after all we have to enjoy it.”