Second round of the playoffs for Rimini, who after having conquered Gubbio return to Umbria on Saturday to face Perugia. This is the fourth match of the season between the two teams: two draws in the championship, victory for the Romagna team in the Italian Cup. For Perugia, who finished fourth in group B, it is their debut in the playoffs. “We know the complexity of tomorrow’s race – Mister Troise begins on the eve -. There are many similarities compared to the match in Gubbio, but with substantial differences because they clearly didn’t play. They have a staff that has some different solutions, with some different characteristics from a physical point of view. It is a team that plays with a different structure, as far as the last match is concerned it must certainly be an encouragement, but we must be able to rebalance what was an evening full of emotions, which created expectations, and in these emotions we must find the right balance to clearly face a match, I repeat, which is similar in some ways but different in many others.”
As in Gubbio, Rimini is forced to win in the 90 minutes to access the national playoff phase (round of 16).: another company is needed. “We need to bring to the field a certain mentality of wanting to achieve the result all together, because the percentages to do so are there, we will have our opportunities. It means playing in 90 minutes for everything because then we know that after this match the playoffs change. And this alone says a lot about what must be the unity of intent of those who will play, of those who will enter, of those who will only be able to support, a match where on every ball, on every game situation, bringing this thought could give us that strength of spirit, it could help us make the effort we need tomorrow in front of an important team” declares Troise.
The use of Gigli remains to be evaluated, while the usual Rosini, Iacoponi, and Pietrangeli will not be there. Perugia doesn’t have a great attack (44 goals scored) but instead boasts an excellent defense (35 conceded). A statistic that does not worry the red and white coach: “The numbers are indicative, but they are not everything in an inside or outside match. As regards our approach only from this morning, but we will also do training tomorrow, I presented to the boys what it may be a different match to the one in Gubbio in terms of some performers rather than some attitude, because it’s not a given to relive the same match as Gubbio, so we have to prepare on other fronts. However, it remains a match in which you will have to have the ability , as you did in Gubbio, to read moments and situations and then interpret them in the best possible way.”
