Tuesday evening Vicenza will be a guest of Taranto in the match of the First National Round of the Play Offs. Here’s what the red and white coach said Stefano Vecchi in the press conference the day before, whose words were reported by the club’s Press Office.
“The fact that we have remained still until today has also allowed us to recover the whole group and it allowed us to recover our energy” – began the coach – “from a mental point of view we must immediately immerse ourselves in the role and return to those of 15 days ago or in any case those who have made an important journey up to 15 days ago, so from this point of view we are ready. Then yes, Taranto has this strength, that of a team of great tenacity, a team that is very organized from a defensive point of view. Certainly in the last 8 matches, it seems to me that they have never conceded a goal at home, so like all the teams that will face each other from now until the final they will be tough matches and teams.”
“Are we aiming for Serie B? I think that’s the goal of everyone in the play-offsotherwise we could have stayed at home” – added the coach – “we have had this objective since we arrived, that of building something important to then get to the play-offs and play in them as protagonists. Tomorrow we start and start to reach the final goal. Stadium with 10,000 seats and a few reserved for the people of Vicenza, first time in a hostile environment? As a man of sport, I wonder how it could be that their guest section is closed and we can play anyway, but I deal with the pitch and not with these aspects honestly. This team has already shown that it knows how to play in hostile environments, even when I arrived, the environment was hostile, with our fans booing and challenging us and despite this the team demonstrated incredible strength in coming out of this situation. Our fans are now on our side and I say that they also, rightly, criticized us because the team then demonstrated that it had values that were sensationally superior to what it was showing on the pitch. So this team has already demonstrated that it knows how to play in a hostile environment.”
