Niccolo Pascali
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Livorno – Serene face and relaxed look for mister Niccolo Pascali which, by presenting tomorrow’s playoff semi-final against Grosseto, thus illustrates the match which could be worth the pass for the final with the winner between Follonica Gavorrano and Tau Altopascio: “Although it is a match between two great disappointments in the championship, I expect a match between two teams that have the opportunity to bring home something more than what they did up to this moment, due to the fact that doing that little bit more accustoms you to winning over time: for the rest, I expect a very technical and very intense match, against a team that has one of the best offensive departments in the entire Serie D and who has a coach on the bench who knows how to win, who knows how to stimulate and who knows how to prepare these matches well.”
Aware of the fact that the season’s outcome was lower than the expectations of both the club and the fans, the Amaranth coach tries not to dramatize the climate of skepticism and disinterest that reigns around the team: “Unfortunately, things went wrong a certain way and, as I have always said, the fans are right to express their ideas and their thoughts because it is right that they do so: for our part, we prepared the match thinking about winning and, in situations like this, the only possibility we have is to take refuge in work and try to carry forward as much as possible what we can carry forward: I would like to point out, however, that the group of boys I have at my disposal is a group of boys who love each other, who work well and who enjoy spending as much time as possible together; moreover, they are united by the awareness of not having been able to demonstrate how much they cared about this shirt and this place, except when we were one less than one from the top of the standings after Seravezza’s victory. Unfortunately, football brings you up and brings you down suddenly, but my hope is that the boys will be able to show the same enthusiasm with which they trained during the week.”
Over the course of the season, the Amaranths saw the profitability of their away performance drastically decrease, going from 6 wins in the first round to 2 wins in the second round and, moreover, they are fresh from two consecutive away defeats against Figline and Orvietana , but this aspect does not seem to worry the thirty-six year old coach, native of Pistoia, too much: “In my opinion, the away defeats against Figline and Orvietana make little difference in the economy of the championship statistics and, however similar they may appear to each other, a If you look closely they are very different: Figline still had an excellent performance, but the match was ruined by some slightly unusual choices by the referee; in Orvieto, however, the team collapsed after a quarter of an hour, also due to the presence of six new starters compared to the previous match but, if we delve deeper into the progress of the match, it is clear that we lost for a technical error committed by the referee”.
As for the team that will be on the pitch tomorrow, the ideas are sufficiently clear: “We are bringing back Nardi, who had had some discomfort and had been rested for preventive purposes after spending 2959 minutes on the pitch this season alone, and the players warned not to take the field in Orvieto (Duccio Brenna And Felipe Curcio, ed): for the rest, the entire squad is available, with the sole exception of the long-term injured players who, unfortunately, have been out for some time. As for Giulio Giordani, he is a very strong player who always trains well, but he arrived tired at the match seven days ago in Orvieto: this season, he has taken to the field as a midfielder, as an attacking midfielder, as a second striker and even as a first striker ; His use tomorrow in Grosseto is a possibility that we are evaluating carefully.”
“I’m sincere – concluded Niccolò Pascali – I don’t think that the outcome of the playoff can have a particular weight as regards the evaluation of my work by the club: vice versa, I’m the one who wants to leave a city that has given me so much enthusiasm and a great opportunity, with the idea of having done the most of what could be done. When I arrived, doing my best meant reaching the playoffs; now doing the best means winning the playoffs which, although today it may be considered something similar to winning the Grandfather’s Cup, can take on an important value in perspective. For me, what matters is finishing the season, leaving everyone with the idea of having done something more than what I found when I arrived.”
