“Regardless of the fact that we need two goals and we have 90 minutes to recover, the team needs balance and I have to understand how the players are doing. We can try to have more offensive strength, we can do everything. But we have to manage the first one well part of the match. With Samp it was dry, we were coming off a week of work, with Venezia it will be different”: as we read above mediagol.it, on the eve of the return playoff semi-final, which will be played against Veneziahe thus spoke Palermo coach Michele Mignani.
Who then continued starting from the first leg match: “We used more of our guts than our heads, sometimes it fits, and we also risked conceding the second goal which would have killed us. Now we will try to do this small feat, aware that Venezia is the favourite: however, we must believe in it and have the patience to do it all the way. The pressure is on the shoulders of the lagoon people. Everything we do must have a logic, and in any case even if the result of the first leg didn’t reward us, we did something good.”
The discussion then moves on to the training: “To completely overturn the team at this moment would not be right, when changes are made they are made with logic and with an idea, trying to improve and do something new. Desplanches and Lund? We have no certainties, they have to do some tests. It’s difficult to recover in a short time when it comes to muscular problems. The goalkeeper? I think there could be a change between the posts. They are two guys with different characteristics and both can play for Palermo and in this category I have full faith in both of them.
On the match that could instead be: “Venice will play a match very similar to the one they played on Monday. They are a strong team that knows how to defend in an orderly manner and restart in an orderly manner. It won’t be important to score a goal straight away, the sooner you do it the sooner the opponent to recover. It will be necessary to have balance and strength to hurt the opponent but with conscience and without going into danger. It will be necessary to prepare the match in an orderly manner. It will be very difficult, we have to win. There’s no point in hiding. But we have the desire to believe it, we go there and play it. Anything can happen in football.”
He concludes by answering a specific question: “Last match on the Palermo bench? We are professionals, I’m not sure what my future will be. But right now it’s not right to think about this, we need to focus on the match. There’s no point in talking about the future. This is a society of a certain type, strong, organized. One way or another Palermo will arrive in Serie A, I don’t know when. Whoever coaches Palermo will be privileged.”
