Gian Piero Gasperini they want the first trophy of the season, the Italian Super Cup after winning the Europa League in the summer. The technician ofAtalanta presents the first semi-final against Inter in a press conference from Riyadh. Live text by TMW.
9.10 – The press conference is scheduled to start at 9.30.
9.30 – The press conference begins.
It’s the first time you’ve played with Inter in normal conditions.
“It’s like this, for us after this run of results in the championship and being at the top is an important match, even if it’s different to those in the championship. It will be different, it’s a match in 90 minutes, where a straight elimination is played and it must be seen from a different perspective.”
How do you explain the difficulties historically had with Inter?
“In the meantime, we need to think about what Inter have done in the last three years, they are the strongest team. The last two games were the most difficult, the others were more balanced and we will have to be careful not to initially suffer as happened in the last two games, staying in the match a little longer, Inter becomes difficult to recover if they take the lead.”
Atalanta among the big teams, the only one of the four to have won in Europe. How much pride is there?
“For a long time, Italian teams in Europe had been absent as victories for a long time. Having done it ourselves, especially for the path taken in the Europa League, with a competitive path, was a source of great pride and also an important point for our path “.
How are you?
“We arrived last night, it’s all a bit new. We saw this hyper-modern city that we didn’t expect, it’s a competition we’ll enter in the next few hours: played like this, far from home and all the fans, it’s a bit ‘ strange. We’ll get into the order of ideas as we get closer, it’s a very important competition but tomorrow is a semi-final: for us it will also be important to get back into the championship when we play Juventus, Udinese and Napoli in a week. Tomorrow we need to catch up The trophy, but also to test how competitive this team is, also from a championship perspective. Then the result will become even more important.”