Genoa. Gilardino confirms his future in the rossoblù even if only the signature is missing in the press conference before Milan-Genoa. “Reached a verbal agreement with the company,” he said.
Gudmundsson with a bit of fever, but the coach hopes to recover him. The other addition, unexpected until a few weeks ago, is Matturro, who rejoined the group this week. “We had the desire to bring him back to the team as quickly as possible and so it was, he has a great desire to return, he must continue his daily training path of strength training, but I hope in the next matches to be able to bring him on the bench and perhaps succeed to use it from here to the end.”
Among tomorrow’s options there could be Vitinha after the good time we played against Cagliari? “Vitor carved out a small space for himself in the previous match and he too is continuing his training course to recover his best form so from now until the end of the championship the desire is to give him a certain continuity in playing time and also from this point of view I will have to make some assessments if Albert is not there or in the event that we manage to recover him. I will then decide tomorrow and what about some players like Thorsby the desire is to go in this direction and to provide continuity and at the same time I reiterate that there is also the desire to see players who perhaps in the last period have played less time than others to make evaluations together with the club and also for the future.”
Regarding the future, Gilardino confirms: “We have found a verbal agreement with the club so we will see each other again in the next few days and I am happy, I am happy. It has always been my desire, my will and I had already spoken about it to the club in the past few weeks and the desire to give continuity to a job together with the staff, together with the team, the possibility of reconfirming itself and therefore now the details are normally missing, missing certain types of situations, but there was a very positive verbal agreement.”
On the However, the construction of the new team is not unbalanced: “The future is called Milan because it is tomorrow’s match, you know how I think and there is the will on my part and I have also transferred this thought to the team and that is what the boys must also have in this championship finale the desire to improve, the desire to amaze, the desire to play on all pitches both at home and away, to play matches on an equal footing with the other teams and trying to put them in difficulty knowing, with respect to tomorrow’s match, that we are going to face a team strong, a talented team, a team coached very well by Mister Pioli and a team that is second in the table and has a points average similar to that of their championship victory and the only thing is that Inter this year is truly competing in a championship of its own, so we are talking about a team of great quality and great talent from all points of view. They are very strong on dead balls and therefore we know which team we are going to face in a prestigious stadium and we want to play a great match.”
On Retegui and the absence of the goal Gilardino advises “to stay focused on what good he is doing at the moment, to stay focused on what good the team needs and then I believe that it is only the episodes that will go towards him and the goal will certainly return.”
Genoa will go to play in a San Siro silent due to the protest of Milan fans: “What environment will we find? We must certainly think about ourselves and try to limit their skill, their strength and try to enhance our qualities when we have the ball and also when we are in the opponent’s half of the pitch.”
At a tactical level the options are different depending on whether Gudmundsson or Vitinha is used. “I like all the solutions that we can adapt in sync with the way the team behaves. Albert is more of an attacking midfielder and attacking midfielder than Vitinha who is a true second striker. They are two different ways of interpreting the match. Now we will evaluate it for the next ones starting tomorrow.”
But Gilardino believed he could score 42 points before May: “It was my dream. Starting in retreat there were some objective difficulties, but during the season I had the feeling and clear picture that the team had great human qualities which allowed us to have this important championship. We have always believed in it, even in snatching the result at any time, this has been the characteristic of the boys and also of my staff.”
Then he returns to the renewal: “My perception of this period has always been Genoa and I believe also in the post-match and pre-match interviews this desire has always been perceived and it is natural that there is this type of attachment to these colours, to this team and whoever gave me the opportunity to follow this path, we must give credit to the club for having believed in me. Together we can continue to do an excellent job. We must continue to dream and improve ourselves with a single and collective input that we must have inside, to score as many points as possible, that must be our will. We know tomorrow’s match will be difficult, but they all are.”
