The coach of Mantua, Davide Possanzini, spoke at a press conference on the eve of the match against Sassuoloscheduled for tomorrow at 5.15pm: “In my opinion we have only one chance, that of playing a match following our way of playing, as we have always prepared matches since the beginning of the year and as we did last year” – his words collected from Sassuolonews.net – “. We have what is perhaps the strongest team in the championship in front of us, or rather we remove the maybe. We have another match in which we can compete against a really strong team, therefore more motivation for sure. We must play trying to make the performance and to understand where we are and where we can get to, both within the match and in the championship.”
On the Sassuolo then he has no doubts: “I carefully watched not only the last match but also all the others, also because despite the fact that I have to play against them, it’s a former team of mine and I always watch it with pleasure, as I said before there are very strong players that I follow and I’m happy that they do well. It’s a strong team, obviously Fabio (Grosso, ed.) will hate me now but I say that in my opinion it’s the strongest team in Serie B. A team that could playing against many teams that play in Serie A. I don’t want to take responsibility away and give it to Fabio, but it’s a fact. Then it’s obvious that matches can go in any direction because football is like that. But on paper, even if on nothing can be done on paper, it’s a really strong team.”
In the end on training: “I will certainly change compared to how we came out of the last match also on a physical level, I will try to evaluate the characteristics of the match, the qualities of the opposing players and I will try to put the best formation in the face of all this. I would like to one day put the shirts in the middle of the locker room and say: ‘you decide the lineup’. From this point of view I see something atypical, a lot of participation from everyone and everyone is clear about what we have to do. Sometimes it works better, sometimes not, however this is a weapon that we have and that we must guard with great, great care.”