Second stage of the double trip to Lombardy. The Fere start again from the concentration of mental energy provided by the victory in Cremona and the positive sensations generated by the collective performance. At the same time there is an obligation to avoid excesses of enthusiasm and not to underestimate Brescia who are in the running for the playoffs. “Last Saturday’s three points – explains Roberto Breda – allow us for now to be in a position we had never reached. But we are only one point above the playout. Therefore, we need the same attitude as Cremona. It won’t be easy. Brescia has strong players, a different but no less dangerous way of playing. They manage to bring several players into the area and exploit their opponents’ mistakes well. They are a team that has physicality and expresses good dribbling find every type of countermeasure, even with different readings compared to Cremona. We are in a safer scenario than a few weeks ago, but it doesn’t take much to go back to how it was before.” Goalkeeper Vitali, making his debut in Serie B, is the real surprise: “He must take all the good from his performance which confirmed his potential. But he must live this second match as if he had made a mistake in the first. He will have attackers up against him with different characteristics”. Favilli scored and appears to be improving: “He’s freed himself up, but he has to look forward and for him the same thing we said about Vitali is valid. It’s obvious that for an attacker not scoring goals is a burden, not a stone to get out of his stomach” . Breda, when it is pointed out to him that several insiders say that he deserves important projects, blocks the concept immediately: “This doesn’t interest me. I’m the same coach after Lecco and after Modena. For me, only salvation matters of Ternana and the path is not easy, because now it is a question of one point and a point is nothing”. The notable specific weight of the players who entered the race: “Our strength is always the group. Everyone, regardless of their playing time, did very well. There is a need for these collective performances and when the heat returns it will be even more important that everyone is well. The boys are very focused – concludes the rossoverde coach – and we have to make the most of the opportunity that the three points from Cremona give us.”
“Ternana must be respected – explains Rolando Maran, Brescia coach – and we will encounter difficulties. Since they changed coach they would be eighth in the table. They are not the team from the first leg, but it could mean everything or nothing. They are certainly very solid and we have to raise our level of attention. We still have a bit of anger from the match in Venice. Defeat always lights something up inside you and I noticed it in our boys during the week.”
