Marco Baronicoach ofHellas Veronahe commented to the microphones of Sky the 2-1 success achieved over Fiorentina: “The final minutes were tough, difficult. They had put players like Kouamé, who physically dominated Tchatchoua, I told the team to avoid letting the ball reach the penalty area But I must say that they had expended a lot of energy: it’s those minutes that become difficult to manage, but the team was good, remained compact and had the ability to sacrifice itself in the final minutes, not allowing attention and not conceding anything.”
After Fiorentina’s equalizer you did well to react. What does this victory taste like?
“It’s an important victory, the points are fundamental now. We prepared the match well during the week: Fiorentina is a strong team and Italiano did an extraordinary job. If you leave him the dribble and go down, against a team that also has players capable of shooting, risks. We were good at going to take them high, accepting the numerical parity, reducing their offensive potential to a minimum. This was the key to the match, as long as we had the energy to do it They were good and I want to thank the public again today: there is a wonderful transfer of energy from the fans to the players.”
Many of your colleagues say that it takes time to insert players, in just a few hours you managed a team that was revolutionized in January. Shouldn’t we believe other coaches?
“No, it’s clear that it would be nice to have time, I always say that. But we don’t have time and here in Verona, after what happened, we had to move forward. We just needed work and believing in work, we had to I and the staff had to be good at finding solutions, we had to be focused on the immediate. But I have to say that these guys put in a lot, even the new ones who were good at immersing themselves in our reality, football and otherwise we have done nothing, we need this spirit of today: don’t be afraid, in life when you have two paths if you take a step back it becomes difficult”.
