“Pressure from the fans? The complaint is legitimate. I take the context out of it and hope kids take advantage of it. Palermo has a warm fan base and you feel it a lot when things are going well. We have to accept the situation, now the fans are not happy with the team’s performance but we have to go further and play our game.” The rosanero coach Michele Mignani he spoke like this in the press conference about the protest from the Curva Nord who will be out in the first 15 minutes of the match against Ascoli: If I were to notice that some player had pulled the plug I would leave them at home, but these guys have always trained with intensity and commitment . The withdrawal is simply a signal that the club has given to make us understand that it is not happy with the performance in the last period and I have embraced this choice.”
Then there’s room for Ascoli, a team in full battle to avoid relegation: “It won’t be an inside-out match for us, it doesn’t determine the final outcome, but it’s certainly an important challenge for us and for the league table. – continues Mignani as reported Stadionews.it – We need to regain that confidence that perhaps we lost in the last two games. It’s the best moment of the championship, I prefer to play these matches than the ones at the beginning of the season. Problems? We realize that something is not working for us and we have to show our character to get out of it, I hope that the people of Palermo will give us a hand. Now it’s not the words that count, but the facts. If I believe in the dream? I hoped that more points would be scored in these five races, but the team is struggling to react and it’s a mental problem. But if I didn’t believe it there would be no point in continuing, I would be dishonest not to go home”.
Mignani then talks about the condition of the team: “We have the same players available as the last match, Di Mariano is not ready yet even if he has deducted the points and continues his rehabilitation. Stulac is a player of a certain level, but now we have to give something more, Gomes has given everything so far and he could suffer from tiredness, but I will make the choices that I think are right – continues the coach – Lund? I accept mistakes, I don’t accept putting my head down and not reacting. We have to be hungrier than the others to have supremacy on the pitch, then it could happen that we go under, but I demand the team’s reaction.”
