THE’Hellas Verona responds with determination to the rumors of a possible change on the bench: the team led by Paolo Zanetti is renewed by adopting a three-man defense and, at the Tardini of Parmasurprises Pecchia’s team by exploiting the Ducali’s strong point, the counterattack. After a balanced first half, with both teams scoring from a corner, the Scaligeri conquered all that was at stake thanks to two lightning-fast counterattacks, which once again highlighted the home team’s defensive gaps.
Pecchia: “When you give an advantage like this to your opponent it becomes difficult to recover”
Parma coach Fabio Pecchia spoke like this in the press conference from the Tardini at the end of the disastrous home defeat against Hellas Verona: “It seems quite clear what happened: we created but at the best moment we lost the match. Too much naivety which we paid dearly for. We were always in the match, with desire and final efforts to recover it. But when you give an advantage like this to the opponent, does it become difficult to recover points lost along the way? Venice… It’s a balanced championship. There are two different ones, the upper part and the lower part, but we need to score points. It’s a shame to leave points at home, but the games must all be played, for one hundred minutes, without naivety that compromises the game. We created a lot today, the match must take a different turn. We take note of the final result, we must continue to work and look forward.”
Zanetti: “We need to be worthy of this square. We have reunited”
“We reasoned as a team, without touching on topics that took us out of phase. – said Paolo Zanetti at the end of the race won at the Tardini – In this process the most important thing was sometimes lost, the common thought. The relationship with Sean is deep, frank and honest. He never gives you anything, if he chose to keep me it’s because he believes I can still give something. I’m proud to have responded and to have proven that he was right, but we both have the same feeling. We don’t done nothing, this is our mentality and in the boys go there, they have to put our mentality in. Then you win or you lose, but today in the difficulties we did everything to win, putting our hearts beyond the obstacle. We looked like a different team compared to last week to restore self-esteem after bad performances. The risk when you lose is also to lose self-esteem, everyone says that we are poor but then we play on the pitch. If we have won against this opponent it means that we have something inside us. The reaction has arrived, now we must maintain this mentality.”