There Juventus Next Gendespite the technical change on the bench with the farewell of Paolo Montero, they are unable to shake themselves and lose 2 to 1 against Crotone, remaining with 7 points in group C of Serie C, in penultimate place after 16 matchdays.
At the end of the match, the new coach Massimo Brambillaspoke in the press conference: “We ‘wrong’ the first twenty, twenty-five minutes of the match” – he explained – “because we had a bit of a heavy head after this period without victories. In that phase Crotone were good to play the game, demonstrating that they are a group capable of exploiting the less positive moments of their opponents in a match to their advantage.”
In the end Crotone had the upper hand: “Crotone approached the match well, but when we took measures we no longer allowed transitions to our opponents and it wasn’t easy because when you have to get back into the game it’s easy for the other team to try to hit you on the counterattack. There were several encouraging signs, in my opinion. In fact, when we loosened up mentally, we were more relaxed and interpreted the match exactly as we had prepared it, playing on equal terms against each other. them. In in the second half we crushed them in their half of the field and, probably, we would have deserved the second goal. Unfortunately it didn’t arrive and we return home without points, but we are holding on to the performance which was, however, positive. We can certainly do better all the qualities to be able to grow further”.