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11.00pm – Bitter night for Parma. Only one point in the last four races, which incredibly complicates the ranking situation for the Ducali. Too many mistakes, paid once again at a very high price. In a few minutes you will speak in the press room at the Tardini mister Fabio Pecchia. Follow his words live thanks to LIVE! Of TMW.
What is your regret today? You struggle to manage certain situations:
“There is regret and disappointment for the effort that the boys made. Given how the inertia of the match was, going out with a defeat hurts a lot. We combined goals, quality play, opportunities. However, we pay for too many inattentions. In the second aside from Marin’s great goal, the team performed very well.”
Too many 12 goals conceded, many in the final:
“Napoli’s two goals affect the numbers and ruin the statistics. Today’s one weighs a lot, we were a solid team. Beyond the quality play of Gaetano and Piccoli, we should have done something better.”
Viola’s position put you in difficulty, did you expect this from Cagliari?
“We expected an aggressive team, with experience, capable of managing. By putting Bernabé at the bottom we found more balance, we reacted and created until the end. The boys have the desire to stay on top of things, we are paying dearly of carelessness. This takes away points and creates a climate around the team that doesn’t do well.”
Are the goals conceded starting to become too many?
“We also create a lot, we score a lot of goals. We definitely have to correct something. I liked the team a lot in the second half. We were behind but we didn’t concede immediately. Then you lose your attention for a moment and the strong players punish you.”
Do you think the midfield solution with the low top could be a way to concede less?
“Playing with the man behind the striker with a midfielder like Hernani is to have balance. Then we can change like today, but it’s a solution that we can adopt during the match, without distorting ourselves. It can absolutely be adopted.”
He chose to field Hainaut:
“We needed more balance, Bernabé had been out for a few days. Sohm had been out for ten days, the only one who could attack space with strength was Hainaut, at the same time he gave balance. He played a great game in all roles, a great response.”
There was a solar penalty, are you having any luck with the referees?
“I don’t know what occasion, I didn’t see it from the bench. Today was a regular game in management, I can say little about the episode.”
Was the defensive phase missing? Has the midfield filtered little?
“They went in on the first goal, more attention was needed there. We need to insist, stay on track, in moments of tension drop we always concede goals. We create a lot, scoring is not easy. I can’t say anything to the team about Marin’s goal, it’s a great goal. But in other moments we had drops. For the rest I liked the team.”
When you talked about a negative environment, were you referring to some booing?
“No. When you play with the right attitude and you lose, it’s disappointing. I tell the team to have faith in themselves and in what they do. At the end of the match they were disheartened, it’s right that it should be like this, but from tomorrow we have to reset.”
Weren’t you equally exuberant on the wing? From there you conceded the third goal:
“In the slide we lost distance and still had to chase. In the second half we started to do what we had to do, even with the substitutions there was the right impact. There is little to say about the last two goals, unlike of the first”.
Have you gone too far?
“On the third goal we were in the middle of the ball. There was the desire to go and score again. We were penalized beyond our faults.”
He spoke of too many defensive inattentions:
“I wasn’t talking about defensive lapses, in the goal there was too much desire to go and look for the third goal, we paid dearly for it.”
On Keita’s exclusion:
“Choice dictated by the moment, not physical.”
11.20pm – The press conference ends.