“I don’t think Siracusa needed a penalty to break the deadlock. I was satisfied after the first half, we held the pitch well.”
This is how Marco Coppa comments on his team’s defeat against Siracusa: a 4-0 score in the second half, after a balanced and goalless first half.
“In the locker room at half-time I told my team that I was happy – began the coach in the press room – we knew we had to suffer and we did it very well for 45 minutes. There is no doubt that there are different qualities among the squads, probably we would have lost anyway but I am convinced that Syracuse didn’t need a penalty to break the deadlock. The penalty is very doubtful, this makes me angry because maybe we would have lost the game for other episodes but who knows, maybe we could have kept the 0. -0”.
The penalty destabilized Akragas psychologically: “The penalty unblocked the match and the boys crumbled from a mental point of view – he specified – but this has often happened this year against the big teams. I can’t blame the team – he concluded – their changes were decisive because they have a well-structured squad.”
