4-0 defeat for the Salernitana and negative debut for Stefano Colantuono on the granata bench. The coach spoke after the knockout with the Sassuolo in Reggio Emilia. Here are his words: “We start again from the second half, much better than the first at least until the goal, but paradoxically in the first half where we were most crushed we finished without conceding a goal. In my opinion in the second half we were playing the game, then the episode happens, it’s part of the game, but it cut our legs short. The second goal is also another gift and when you play against Sassuolo who are the best equipped team in the category, a team that is now first, the day before they were second, who has them in B? It has Laurienté and Berardi. It’s a team that’s out of the league, but given the way it was going, especially in the first 20 minutes, we were doing very well, then the episode happened. Now we’re starting again and complicated, it comes into its own after January. Clearly we will have to correct something because we risk having a championship with big penalties and we want to have a different championship.”
The best moment when he switched to 4-3-3…
“I’m not dogmatic. In my opinion the team can play the 3-5-2 because it has central defenders who are more capable, it has full-backs who are perhaps more predisposed to the 3-5-2, but that’s not the gospel. We wanted play this match because we knew how Sassuolo plays, who look for width, we prepared the double on the flanks. In the second half when we returned to the 4-3-3 they did it well, they played, they dribbled developed, there was the idea of having more substance up front, of putting a player close to the attacker because one of the things Salernitana suffered most before today was putting a player close to the attacker who was left too alone ‘we had it in the second half, if that comes in maybe another result will develop, we know that we can do more, the result is even greater than what we saw today keeping in mind that Sassuolo is out of category.’
Who to start from in attack?
“We’ll find out as we go. I chose because I expected a match like this and I wanted him to attack the depth more, Simy prefers to move in the last 20 metres, the other is more suited to counterattacks. The result disturbs us, it bothers us a lot but we must project ourselves onto the next challenge.”