“You can’t do too many calculations in these matches.” The Ternana coach Roberto Breda he spoke like this after the 1-1 draw at Bari in the first leg of the Serie B play outs: “After their post at the start there was a clear supremacy on our part with the missed penalty and other things, but then if you concede meters to this team becomes dangerous. We have to stay focused and do things well throughout the match, but today I saw great personality from the team.”
Then there is room for missed opportunities: “This year we have experienced similar matches many times, I think this is the fourth penalty we have missed, but we need to go beyond the negative episode. We have to work three times harder than the others to score this season. Bari is alive and fierce, we can’t concede anything.”
Finally, a look at the team’s attitude and the return match: “My team has always shown great personality and an always positive attitude, but playing in this crowd was a great experience for our young people, to understand what it means to say playing in certain stadiums. Even if we went down we never lost our balance and played our game. The goal came in the least clear occasion of all – concludes Breda – We are still at 50-50 for survival. we won’t play for a draw in the second leg.”
