Torino’s next opponent will be Hellas Verona and to get to know this team better we spoke to those who always follow it closely
After having closed the last four matches without any goals scored and having collected just three points in the last five matches, Torino is preparing for the last three matches of the season. The next match will be played on Sunday on the Hellas Verona pitch which is looking for the last points to guarantee its survival. To better understand all the secrets, including the strengths and weaknesses of the yellow-blue team, we asked some questions to those who know the team very well. It’s Matteo Fountainjournalist from Hellas1903 whom we thank for having granted himself exclusively to our microphones.
Good morning Matteo, how does Verona arrive at this match against Torino? The recent victory against Fiorentina suggests a positive state of form.“Verona made a long run for safety, but the league table is still very compressed because there are many teams fighting. However, beating Fiorentina clearly allowed Hellas to make a leap forward and comes to this match against Turin in a good state of confidence and at the same time with the awareness that there is still a long way to go to achieve the great objective”.
In January there was a sort of revolution in the yellow-blue squad, despite this the results are arriving and the team has the fate of salvation in its own hands, what happened?“The team was able to regroup after a transfer market dictated by both corporate and technical needs because something clearly needed to change. Marco Baroni gave great fluidity and motivation to the group, the environment helped because he never contested the team or the coach. In terms of determination and courage, there has never been a lack of anything between both the players and the fans, this has given a lot of cohesion to the whole environment. Getting this far is thanks to the work of the coach, the sporting director and the whole team “.
Juric will most likely leave Torino at the end of the season after three years. Before arriving in the grenade he was in Verona where perhaps he ended the adventure in the same way. Is there some sort of parallelism between these two farewells? “In my opinion it’s a parallel that remains a bit halfway because with Turin he reached the end of his contract while with Verona he still had two more years left on his contract. That was a choice that the public didn’t like very much given that Juric left a mark in Gialloblù’s recent history with many very beautiful pages and it was thought that it could open a cycle, but that didn’t happen, perhaps it needed new stimuli. In Turin it did a good job in my opinion, perhaps there could have been a leap in quality more or less, but there are still three games left this year. Juric is undoubtedly a top-level coach with a top-notch staff and I think the club has done everything it could to satisfy him with the example signing of Ilic and Zapata”.
If Torino wants to win this match, what should they do to hurt the yellow-blue players?“Torino has great quality but they have to show it on the pitch, Verona focuses a lot on the pace and intensity of the game, but these are characteristics that Juric’s teams also don’t lack. Simply put, they have to try to hurt the yellow-blues in attack and returning to scoring goals since he hasn’t been able to score goals for some time. The numbers say this: Toro is a team that concedes little, but has scored even less than Verona.”.
On the other hand, what are the main strengths of Baroni’s team? Who are the best players in recent times?“The great intensity of the game, the competitive fury of Verona and the ability to change the game quickly are good weapons. Then it’s true that the public doesn’t go onto the pitch, but at Bentegodi they have always given a great hand to the team by dragging them along. This Verona will give everything even if he has accumulated some tiredness in this long run. He will try to get a result to reach safety as soon as possible. As individuals, pay attention to Noslin who is a player who continues to grow more and more both in scoring and also in the defensive phase He’s very good and is recovering from an injury. Then the defensive pairing of Magnani and Coppola is growing. Verona is gaining more and more confidence.”.
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