On the eve of the match against Brescia, the eagle coach Luca D’Angelo spoke in the usual pre-match conference: “The boys are all available, obviously Cassata is missing, as well as Mühl, for the rest we just have to evaluate some situations, but the group is well and is ready to take the field.
The team trained well this week so tomorrow we must try to play a good match; up front we have Verde, Falcinelli, Moro, Esposito and Di Serio who can play, then we’ll see whether to have two strikers play immediately or whether to insert them during the match, having them available is important because the substitutions become decisive.
The attackers all train well and give me plenty of playing time, in the sense that no one argues when they don’t play. Daniele Verde is a very important player for us, whether he comes in during the game or plays straight from the start: we all know his value and we will make the best choices to enhance him.
The discussion must also be extended to all midfielders, we have many matches these days, players like Kouda, Reca, Di Serio who are coming off major muscle injuries need very careful evaluations, Jagiello himself wasn’t very well last month and given due to the large number of close matches we must be careful to field the players who are best.
Reca can certainly have playing time because he’s fine now. As for Elia, he played well on both the right and left, so tomorrow we’ll see where to put him. At Rigamonti I expect a difficult match, we face a strong team, which is doing very well, so we will need a top-level Spezia.
Am I close to Brescia at the end of 2023? It seems correct to me to talk about the present. They have hired a very good coach as well as a very good person and I feel good at Spezia: I’m happy to coach him and that’s fine.
From the psychological side, we have to think about our matches and not those of others, we must try to do well in the last matches that are missing before the end of the tournament without being influenced by other results.”
