The president of Trapani, Valerio Antoninihe comments on the knockout against the Follonica Gavorrano:
“A very disappointing match, especially in the attitudes seen on the pitch. Until the 70th minute the team almost never had a shot on target and woke up at the end, when they remembered the level of the players on the pitch, coming close to scoring on several occasions. The result is objectively not the right one, but we were unlucky. Sometimes determination and the desire to do make the difference. This year we played an almost perfect championship, never losing, drawing only four games. And suddenly the light went out. It is the second consecutive defeat at home, an important wake-up call for the future. The players don’t think about these things, but I am the president and in addition to being an entrepreneur I look at the interests of my club. All these negative attitudes seen in these last matches will be subject to evaluation on the merits of who should or should not stay in Trapani. I invite the players not to feel like they are on holiday as they seem to be lately, to concentrate because the Italian Cup is an important objective and because I believe that the championship-Cup combination has never been won. So I’m very disappointed, especially by the attitude seen up until the 70th minute, an attitude of someone who seemed to be on the beach instead of on a football pitch.”
“Arbitrage? I’m not talking about referees, because when we talk about them it means that we are losers. The referee probably made some mistakes, we saw that maybe there was a penalty, but we didn’t lose because of the referee. If we start thinking like this, we have lost. Referees are human, if we appeal to them we are in a bad situation. We lost because they played more orderly and didn’t give us anything. We made mistakes like on the occasion of the goal, where Sabatino jumped as if he were in the swimming pool and unfortunately when you make these mistakes at certain levels you pay for them. We lost due to an individual error, Sergio had an extraordinary championship, he can make mistakes too.”
“The team was out with concentration. When you’re not concentrated at certain levels you go off the rails, it doesn’t take much for others to contain you. A wake-up call because if we play like this again we will lose the return leg and also the championship semi-final. The team must bring out what it can and knows how to do. If he does, then the return match ends 3-0, that’s the difference in quality between the two teams. The way they are playing today, the fear that it won’t happen is high.”
