After tonight’s defeat against GenoaClaudio Raniericoach of Cagliarispoke from the Ferraris press room: “I’m sorry, not angry. The boys did the best they could. Genoa were very good and Gilardino too. They were turning the ball over quickly and we weren’t able to do what we’re used to doing, staying tight and compact so we can help each other. This didn’t succeed and they were good. I told the boys not to worry, let’s think about the next match also because we have done well in the last month and a half“.
On training choices: “I was trying to bring in players who could make the team the way it was used to playing. Maybe I should have thought that without certain players it would be better to stay back there and wait for good weather. That wasn’t the case, but the boys gave everything and I can’t blame them. When I go to see the data I’m sure they will have run more than the other games, but when you run like that and you can’t stay together you have to congratulate your opponent“.
In light of this defeat, how do you frame next Sunday’s match against Lecce?
“I hope I can recover several players. With Lecce it is as important as all the games we have played since the start of the championship. Some went badly. Now we were going through a good period of form and we must immediately resume the conversation against a team that is ahead of us and is saving itself. Surely our audience will follow us because we need it. We weren’t phenomena before and we haven’t become terrible today. We played a game, the things we thought should fail didn’t succeed. Congratulations to Genoa and let’s continue with our path. We are there with one game less and all the others haven’t taken us a few too many points, we have to see the glass as half full“.
Could the mental factor have had an impact? Genoa took to the field without any obligation to the result as they were already safe, you needed the points. Could it have had an impact?
“I don’t think it had an impact, both we and they wanted to win. They took the key to the problem and we weren’t able to do what we had to do. It is useless to say mea culpa, we must give to Cesare what is Cesare’s and give to Gilardino the honors of what he created: a team that knows what he has to do. They did it very well because they moved quickly and put the ball inside the penalty area with shots from Thorsby and Retegui. And always Gudmundsson wandering around the pitch trying to get us out of position. Congratulations to them“.
Genoa 3-0 Cagliari, the Grifone walks over the Sardinians. Thorsby also scored
