Cagliari coach Davide Nicola spoke at a press conference on the eve of the Coppa Italia match against Cremonese. The coach of the rossoblù team began the exchange by talking about the decision taken in concert with the club to go on retreat after the home defeat against Empoli: “The retreat is a decision made in concert with the club, obviously starting with the president and the director. We haven’t had any significant physical problems since the start of the season, but we thought it was right to meet up to work in an even more attentive and focused way, given that it hasn’t always been possible to do it all together between the various commitments in the national team and the fact that some of the boys have recently joined the group”.
On the work that is being carried out these days, this is Nicola’s thought: “When we don’t achieve what we want, we rightly feel busy wanting to improve, we are thinking about possible new solutions and working to do better. There is also the awareness that six games have passed and how the team has shown that beyond the ideas there is the potential to realize them. Obviously during a championship you can make some mistakes in your performance. What interests us now, after six games with a good amount of data available, is to also find new solutions”.
Tomorrow there will be turnover: “At this moment it is normal that someone might need a rest, there are players who have often or always played the full ninety minutes in these first six games. It is important that in a championship like the one Cagliari has to play there are many players available, so in the Coppa Italia – a competition where we want to do well and which interests us – there will be the possibility for some of the players who have been less used up to now to have more minutes. What we want to show is that we are never still and we always have the possibility to propose new solutions”.
Nicola then declared that he still has a lot of faith in his group: “It’s important that the boys listen and perceive the trust that is around them, because it’s just a matter of finding a continuity of results in the face of a continuity of performances that, excluding the last match, has always been there.”