Alexis Blin, who also spoke at the press conference on Sunday evening after the match against Udinese, looked back at the Giallorossi season which ended with salvation, achieved thanks to temperament in key moments. The former Amiens player commented as follows in the words taken from TrNews: “It was a difficult season, we experienced some particular moments during the championship but in the end I think this salvation is deserved, because we didn’t make mistakes in the fundamental matches, both at home with Empoli and in Salerno with Salernitana as well as with Sassuolo. We were good at taking the points when they mattered.”
The Frenchman, in examining the defeat against Cannavaro’s team, describes various reasons that give liveliness to the championship finale. After Saturday’s match against Atalanta, Lecce will close at Napoli: “I told the guys let’s do it for our families, because we had our mother’s name on the shirt and I felt the team was very excited at the start of the match. We are professionals and when we spoke to the president in January about the salvation bonus, we planned that it also depends on the place in the league table. And we want to play until the end. For us it’s not the same if we finish in 13th place or lower. That’s why we wanted to get a result yesterday, as well as in the next two games. We are professionals, we cannot afford to lose, then it happened like this and we are sorry”.
The French colony of Lecce will be enriched in the summer by Balthazar Pierret, midfielder who will arrive on a free transfer from Quevilly-Rouen: “I don’t know Pierret personally but I know his characteristics which are similar to mine but he is a leftist. We could play together. Then we’ll see how he works and how he integrates into the team, but if the club has chosen him it means that he has quality, because here they don’t make mistakes about the players.”
At Via del Mare, theAtalanta, in one of the most important moments in its history. After tonight’s Italian Cup final against Juventus, the Dea will face Bayer Leverkusen in the last act of the Europa League. Blin reads it like this: “A tough match to play, I saw the match they played against Marseille, they have a fast, rhythmic game, they apply pressure and come at you, it will be a very difficult match to play, but it will also be a good match against our team public and we also know that by playing duels, man on man, spaces can be opened up.”
