Heart-pounding victory for the Sassuolo who beat the Cosenza comeback 2-1 with goals from Moro and Lipani, coming off the bench, in the 86th and 90th minutes. Fabio Grossocoach of the neroverdi, commented on the match at the Mapei Stadium as follows: “Twelve goals from the bench? The championship is difficult – he reports SassuoloNews.net – the matches are tough and then sometimes they want to make us believe that this isn’t the case but we have to be good at knowing that we have to put in the effort, that we have to put in full performances like we did today and so congratulations to the boys for this one hard-fought but deserved victory.”
How is Pierini?
“He came back before the start of the match and told me that he felt a bit of discomfort in his flexor and we preferred not to risk it. We didn’t have it for this match and we will have it for the resumption of the championship.”
Is Benevento’s projected record within your reach, can it be a stimulus?
“We have to raise the bar without looking too far ahead, we have to think about the present. Even today we realized that if you then distract yourself by thinking about other different things you lose sight of what you have to do and you can risk not doing it well. We know we know very well the difficulties of this championship and we know very well that we want to try to continue to do well, knowing that every match will be tough, that our opponents want to overtake us, and that we must put the right energy on the pitch as we did today.”
Cozy, snooty team but the changes were decisive…
“I haven’t seen a snooty team otherwise it would be very very serious, we are not and we don’t want to be. Sometimes we play on this fact but it is not part of us to represent ourselves in this way. Today I saw a team that challenged a team that had drawn in Pisa, had won in Brescia, and we have to be good not only at looking at what’s wrong but also at the many things that are right, because if every time we point out what’s wrong it’s as if we wanted to tell ourselves to right that we must do things. We want to continue to do well in a difficult championship.”
Lipani?
“I’m happy for Luca because like his other teammates he’s training well. He’s always trained well like his teammates who are very good at keeping the intensity of training high. Some choices have penalized him but he’s been good at being ready when called into question.”
You always talked about a tough championship, you convinced me. Up until the 86th minute, how much did Pisa’s disappointment weigh psychologically?
“We played the game, for large stretches we had the patience to know how to recognize the right moments to sink, we conceded opportunities and we conceded few, then the small details change the final judgments and moods but we must recognize what good has been done and what to improve, continue to work to keep the level high. A match in which the head and the heart can make the difference and in the end we were good at playing with great clarity but also with a giant heart. which he allowed us to take home an important victory.”
Now there’s the break…
“When you can’t change something it becomes a fact and you use it to recover energy, the guys who are out and we need it, and to present ourselves again with the right way to face the opponents to try from time to time to bring about home of good matches and good results.”
Did Cosenza expect it like this?
“I congratulate Cosenza because I know the coach, their proposal, and they are playing an excellent championship, a difficult championship for everyone. I expected this Cosenza like this, the attacks on the references, sometimes they decided to let us dribble to start again in counterattack but even there we were good at understanding the moments. We were very good at overturning it but the performance would have remained the same even if I know very well that the judgments would have changed later but it’s part of this stop.”