The Pisa coach Alberto Aquilani spoke this morning at a press conference at the Arena Garibaldi in view of the match against Ascoli scheduled for tomorrow at 8.30 pm at the “Del Duca” stadium for the thirty-eighth and final day of the Serie B championship.
“It’s simple to prepare for the match against Ascoli: the motivation is to play a Serie B match, a match worth a day, the chance to score a goal, an assist, improve a statistic. It can be a showcase. I don’t accept the fact that we think that we don’t have motivations. It’s a question I don’t even ask myself in my head. We trained correctly, we prepared for the match as we always do. We will try to honor the championship as best we can and reach as high as possible – Aquilani said -. Caracciolo won’t be there, he had a small muscle injury against Sudtirol. Hermannsson is not there. Veloso returns, Masucci could have a little problem. Esteves won’t be there. When I came here nobody asked me to get to the playoffs. Then it is obvious that we had this in mind. This team had the chance to do something more. We must give value to the fact that the focus has often been shifted to the playouts. We must also be satisfied that we never actually came close to the playouts. When you remove the fear of the playouts you have the hope of achieving something else, but it is part of a complex championship. Yes, this team had the potential to make the playoffs, all it took was one of those five crazy games we had to go differently and we were in the playoffs. Could we get there? Yes, but I don’t throw anything in the bin. A very important job planned. There’s a lot of black, there’s also a little bit of white and a lot. It was a formative season. He gave me everything. It was the first experience, above all accepting to understand what you can bring to a team in terms of methodology and thought. What I want and can do can be done. As we always say, it is a line that must be shared. I found some wonderful footballers, who gave me a hand and believed in it completely. The best thing was the relationship I had with the players and also with you journalists; it was a new thing for me as well as the relationship with the fans, but I didn’t come here to train, but to propose. I tried. I understood what I needed. Future? After the match against Ascoli we will meet with the club and explain our ideas to understand if the conditions are met. They have always made me work in a calm manner, we will discuss”.
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