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The Venice regains victory against Udinese and now prepares for the complicated trip to San Siro where they will face Inter on Sunday evening.
The lagoon technician, Eusebio Di Francescowill shortly speak at a press conference to present the match. Follow here TuttoMercatoWeb the direct verbatim of his words.
The press conference begins at 1.25pm
On paper, Inter are the favourites. What can Venezia do?
“Believe in it. As we did in the last few games. Let’s call it a prohibitive match, as some may define it, but our job is to believe in it. Knowing that we are against the Italian Champions. We will have to be good at exploiting the chances.”
Who’s coming back?
“We have everyone available except Bjarkason. This time I think he should return at the break. I don’t have clear ideas about the lineup, I will evaluate the condition of the boys in the next few days. Udinese? Our false start was also determined by their freshness, they were better ball”.
What are you most satisfied with as a coach?
“I’m talking about us and not about myself, but about the ability to stay in the game. Of having the clarity that we had unlike in Monza, capitalizing on numerical superiority, for example. I see team and individual growth, for example from players who take over and determine.”
Haps great match.
“I had already done it in Monza, much better in this match, he is gaining confidence with this role. It also depends on the characteristics of the opponents, I also did it with Candela. I also wanted to have a better dribble. It allowed us to have more solutions , at one stage of the match we also had a sort of 4-2-4.”
Will there be any surprises with Inter?
“Eh, you always have to create something. I like having dynamism from the team, the strategies are different. Strategy today is more important than tactics.”
Oristanio: it has had incredible growth, right?
“We have two in that role. Yeboah has yet to fully enter the new reality, but he has an impressive dry dribbling and will give us a great hand. Oristanio is having great growth in general, in staying inside the game, in entering the way right. At the same time he lacks that continuity that would allow him to take a further step.”
Is there too much distance between the lines? Do you sometimes lack balance?
“The concept of balance is very subtle, the risk of stretching exists, there can also be spaces between the lines due to the physical characteristics of the players. We need to improve our balance as you say.”
Inter’s strength is in the collective way they play.
“I think there isn’t a module because it’s dynamic. Instead of wing players you find midfielders. They have great intelligence, but also quality, which makes them a bit unpredictable.”
He has the entire defense at his disposal.
“Actually yes, Sverko still has to get to 100%, he needs training, but he allows me to choose. However, it’s welcome to have a whole assortment of players.”
Another player who has settled in is Ellertsson.
“I changed his position and now I have an additional solution, he has speed, running.”
How much closer is this team to the identity it wants, compared to the first time it played at San Siro against Milan? That identity that was seen against Udinese for example.
“I think we had an identity on several other occasions, not just against Udinese. Clearly against Milan was the match where we had the least of it. Certain stadiums also intimidate you if you’re not used to it and maybe this time our legs will shake less.”
Against Udinese and Atalanta there was a certain difficulty in certain phases in coming out cleanly with the ball due to the opponent’s pressing. Will this aspect be important against Inter?
“Especially in the first half hour we had it. Normal, there are also the characteristics of the opponents, but it didn’t derive from the pressing, they left us a certain superiority in a certain sense. Maybe the less freshness of them leads us to think that they are pressing more than they do, then Stankovic was very good at keeping us alive with an important save at 2-0.”
We saw her call Stankovic back against Udinese. What did you want to improve?
“Something needed to be changed about the construction, in the first step we were sometimes hasty. But he is a boy who wants to learn and listens.”
The press conference ends at 1.49pm.