“I’m doing all the necessary therapies after the injury, because I want to be there on Saturday at any cost”. Cesena defender Massimiliano Mangraviti speak like this to Corriere Romagna underlining how much he wants to take the field against his Brescia: “I’m from Brescia, my dad used to take me to see Baggio and Guardiola train, I was born seeing that shirt even if unfortunately I only have blurry memories and I’m sorry I didn’t enjoy Baggio so muchbut I never forgot it. – continues Mangraviti – Then I grew up, my father took me to the bend and my new idol became theHeron Caracciolo, who I was then lucky enough to have as a partner.”
Mangraviti then returns to the match against Sampdoria: “A team that takes the 3-2 and 4-2 in that way, after the mockery of the initial own goal, and then immediately shortens and even finds the 4-4 demonstrates character and we have to start again from there. I’m convinced that if they hadn’t disallowed Cristian’s goal, we would have won the match. – the central continues – However, we are conceding too many goals and this is an aspect that should not be overlooked, which doesn’t let me sleep at night because I have always played in that defense. We need to fix ourselves because then we undermine the good work we do going forward. We can’t just throw it all away.”
Finally, a thought also on the problems with inactive balls: “Those are heavy, but that’s not the only flaw that needs to be corrected. For me it’s a collective problem, sometimes we’re poorly positioned and sometimes we get caught up in the desire to score, leaving too much space for our opponents to counter-attack.”