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13.50 – Torino returns to the field after the 0-0 draw against Lecce, the Granata are looking for an away win against Hellas Verona to go alone at the top for one night. Shortly, from the conference room of the Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino, the coach Paul Vanoli will present the race scheduled for tomorrow at 20.45. Follow the live text on Tuttomercatoweb.comthe conference is scheduled to start at 2pm
2.02pm – Vanoli’s press conference begins
It’s Verona: what emotions will he feel tomorrow?
“It’s a special feeling. I decided that my family would live there, it’s a wonderful city and in football I won a Serie B championship. Coming back to Bentegodi is a feeling”
What kind of game will it be tomorrow?
“It will be complicated, like all the others. Verona lost to Lazio but stayed in the game until the end, they got results at home and they are a fast team, dangerous on the counterattack”
Can Vlasic be a starter?
“No. It’s simple: long-term patients have a program, he is important and a relapse would be too dangerous, I want to complete the process. He has done some finishing and he did well, he has to do some metabolic work and from the next one he will be in the group. He will not be called up”
Will Coco be called up?
“Yes. Then we’ll see how he is tomorrow morning…We were lucky, he and Vojvoda don’t have any major injuries. Coco was more of a cramp, tomorrow we’ll do the last test and I’ll decide. Vojvoda continues his recovery journey”
So the defense will change: will the team structure change too? Will it go to four?
“I have to study the characteristics. When you start a process, you give stability. Then during the match you can change: it’s a hypothesis to switch to four or continue as we are doing. We are in modern football, we have to do both phases. It takes time to complete the process, perfection is difficult”
What are your thoughts post Lecce?
“I showed the boys the whole game, sometimes watching it again you understand where you can improve. Many transitions came from technical errors, a team like ours should make much fewer mistakes”
How did he see Maripan?
“He is a player with experience and personality, even if he is not in optimal condition. It is normal for those who have arrived at the end of the market, but they are all ready to play. Maripan, as it happens with Pedersen and Sosa, needs time to get to the mechanisms. But at the same time you think about the results: Maripan, if he starts, has the experience to make a contribution”
How long does it take to understand what kind of championship Toro can play?
“There is no time. We have to work and think game by game: a new process has begun, after you come from a three-year methodology it takes time. And sometimes a coach has little time, you saw it: I try to make things fit together, I don’t get excited after Atalanta and I don’t get down after Lecce. It’s part of the process, a bit like what happens with workloads, and there are ups and downs”
Vanja talked about Europe: as a team, are you in the top seven in the standings?
“I’m happy to hear one of my players taking on these responsibilities. A coach says that we need to prove it on the pitch: we are in a phase of growth as a player and as men, we are recovering and we need to bring in the new ones. There will be a lot of work”
How is Sanabria?
“He must learn to become an important player. I said it and I repeat it, I asked this club for four important strikers because for me it was fundamental: with Karamoh, the quartet will play its weapons. Tomorrow I will choose, everyone must be ready because everyone is needed”
Are you more cautious in declaring your objectives? There was a perception that there was a greater openness to Europe…
“I’ve always been cautious… I waited for the market to close to understand the characteristics of the new players, the market makes the difference. I’m happy with those who have arrived, but they are players who need to be inserted into a context: I said I dream, I came for a goal but from chatter we move on to the pitch. That’s why I don’t like to say them, but to do them. I talk about dreams, when I work I dream together with the team, the club and the club. But it happens through work. Today I’m not pessimistic or optimistic, the goal is to grow”
It’s hard to dribble: how do you get around this problem?
“I don’t use his site, I use others… He talks about successful dribbles, he’s right. The last is Inter… He gave himself an answer. So hurray (laughs, ed.). We are fourth for attempted and successful dribbles, you can do a few and succeed. And then you have to consider the game system: Inter also has a choral game and not an individual one. If I’m not mistaken, the first is Juve, they have signed players who are good in one-on-one. The module leads to a certain calibre”
What do we need to work on the most in the defensive phase?
“On the collective. When you defend, you have to do it as a team. Sometimes we lack synchrony in understanding when to attack high up, or wait, because it’s a different defensive phase than in other years. A lot of work is needed from the defensive line, we’ve changed a lot of players back there”
If you win, you’re first for a night: how important can that be?
“We thought about it just as we thought about what Lecce could give us. But I wouldn’t want it to distract us from our path: to reach important goals you have to grow, that’s what will bring results. Winning and playing badly means that when you lose you won’t have the foundations to start again. After the game against us, Gotti said that they played a great game against the top team: that must be a pleasant statement, but you also have to understand that others see you in a certain way. And we all have to do more. It’s difficult to stay at the top, this is another big step to face. Let’s look at our performance, trying to do better”