The coach of Sassuolo, Fabio Grossospoke in the press conference at the end of the match drawn by the neroverdi against Spezia (0-0 at the Mapei Stadium). Here are his words, collected by SassuoloNews.net: “I always look at the glass half, like every time. We faced a team that could put you in difficulty at any moment and instead we held up well, we were good defensively. We could have accelerated a little ‘Moreover, it wasn’t easy, we weren’t able to get going again to unleash our runs, we slowed down the pace in search of spaces and instead you have to prepare the spaces, we could have done this better.”
Could something more have been done in attack? Is parity okay with you?
“I always take what comes. Our goal has always been to get full spoils, sometimes you succeed and other times you don’t. The match wasn’t easy, they always ended well. We didn’t get pinched by Spezia in their situations. try attacking and we could have done better, looking for spaces with speed, even putting a few more shovels in space to separate Spezia’s lines. In the second half we had 20 minutes in which we raised the pace a bit, creating the conditions. we arrived with Doig at the edge of the area and there was this contact, a cross from Toljan on the right to Laurienté. We conceded little, we created less but the positive things are there and I try to carry them forward “.
Sassuolo never finished on target in practice. Is there any chance that the team will be a little more daring in the future?
“The team always tries to dare, then sometimes you succeed and sometimes you don’t. In some circumstances we didn’t succeed due to our own demerits and in others we could have accelerated it, then there are always the opponents. I keep the positive things because we showed good solidity, we tamed their counterattacks. We always kept the game in the balance and these are always games in the balance that can be moved by a few episodes. We’ll keep this point and look at the next one.”
Among the positive things, the draw in a direct clash after the 4-1 against Cremonese in the penultimate big match?
“We didn’t do well in the last match at home, today we returned at home after three well played away games. Today there were few spaces, we should have been good at knowing how to create them, sometimes we didn’t recognize the moment to be able to do it “.
How did you see Muharemovic and why was he preferred to Odenthal? Did you think about bringing in another offensive man at the end?
“We have 4 central defenders available and therefore I try to make a targeted choice during the match. He and Cas had done well, then there is Miranda who can give us a hand. I preferred him because he is left-footed and among the options that we tried to prepare and we didn’t make much use of it with the left foot we could go behind the defense on a cross ball but we didn’t succeed but that was also a thought. The two central defenders were very good because they rely a lot on the two points and we took away his space. I had one substitution left, I almost always use the 5 substitutions available because I have a lot of guys behind me, I was tempted to put the attacking player on, I hesitated because I didn’t want to empty the midfield and we were suffering these balls on the left I didn’t want to put one of D’Andrea, Antiste or Moro but the team didn’t give me the feeling of having the solidity to be able to afford the four offensive men.”