Bologna, 2 May 2024 – After the arithmetic ofEuropeThe Bologna now he wants it Champions League. The draw withUdinese has given the rossoblù club a European placing again after 22 years, but in Casteldebole there is the awareness of a job that is not yet finished.
Bologna’s Champions League hopes also and above all depend on the away match Turin, scheduled for Friday 3 May at 8.45pm. In recent days Joshua Zirkzee posted a video on social media Kobe Bryant in which he repeats “Job’s not finished”.
Thiago Motta agrees with his attacker: “We are very satisfied with having wrote the story of this club going in Europebut at the same time we have the opportunity to try to go to the Champions League. Not much left: no one expected this placement.”
Thiago doesn’t trust the Turin: he knows the opposing coach well Juricwith whom he played at Genoa. “It’s a team with good players – continues Motta – Ivan is a great coach and great ‘competitor’, he also wants to win in training. Since he arrived he has raised the level.”
Salvation goal
At the beginning of the year no one believed in a European placementnot even there management. Thiago Motta in fact, he explained how the dialogues with the club went summerbefore the start of the championship: “At the beginning of the year the club asked me to arrive as soon as possible at 40 points. Sincerely I didn’t really agreeI wanted to think game by game and always try to win. I think it’s always the best thing and I also thank the management for following this path and not communicating what was said in recent seasons.”
No pressure
The coach was also good at isolating the team from the insistent players market rumors which continue to interest the rossoblù environment even in these hours: “La pressure it’s just about others, we’ve never had an obsession with the Champions, but only to improve ourselves. The unexpected European goal has brought us even more desire, chasing an even greater goal. I’m grateful to my boys for listening to me from day one and especially those who are playing less. It is thanks to their commitment to training despite participating little that the level has risen higher and higher. The test was also yesterday because everyone did a fantastic training, this is also good for the starters who will want to keep their place. We are in one beautiful situationbecause we have the responsibility to enter the history of Bologna. We will try to the end go to the Champions League”.
Saelemaekers and Orsolini
He is certainly among the protagonists of the moment for the rossoblù Alexis Saelemaekersin net for two consecutive games and with an increasingly high level of performance. Motta praises the Belgian’s personality and attitude former Milan: “We strongly believed in him, because he would be useful in our game system and now he is proving it. At the beginning he arrived with great pressure, he wanted to prove at all costs that he was a great player. It took him some time to adapt and find his role within the team”.
Orsolini on the bench againstUdinese? The rossoblù coach also explained his tactical choice in the press conference: “I see Riccardo better when he has space on the pitch, Udinese is a team that closes down a lot. Then Ndoye he came from a great match a Rome. Let’s see tomorrow who will play from the first minute and who will take over.”
Thanks to Fenucci
Finally, the gloss is for the CEO Claudio Fenucciwho had praised Thiago in recent days for his professionalism and dedication to work, as if he already had a contract for the next ten years: “I thank him very much for the kind words, they really make me proud. Receiving praise is always good. Now we must continue to work and try to achieve an extraordinary result, for us, the club and our people”.
