The live words of Sassuolo coach Davide Ballardini in the press conference on the eve of the match against Lazio.
Press conference on the eve of Davide Ballardini, spoke to the microphones of the reporters present to present the challenge Lazio–Sassuolo scheduled for tomorrow afternoon at the “Olimpico” stadium. The neroverdi, now arrhythmically relegated, will visit the biancocelesti who will instead have the objective of certifying qualification for the Europa League.
“This experience leaves me with many good things because, as I have always said, the ownership, the managers, we met serious and capable people. There is pleasure for this but there is equally displeasure for not having achieved a result that you could have achievedon the other hand there is also the fact that it has never happened to us that we get to 12 games from the end, there is very little time, two and a half months, to move around is very little.”
“What was missing? I wasn’t here but many small episodes lead you to say ‘holy shit this is a difficult year’. We arrived two days before Verona, a match that we were in control of and if there was a team that deserved it it was Sassuolo, and in a situation where you could have scored, your most representative player got hurt and there he understands that there were many difficulties. This is so, another thing that you thought of never being involved in such a delicate situation because the environment, the squad, the expectations, you thought you were cheering yourself up because you believed you had superior qualities that allowed you to get out of a complicated situation, which didn’t happen. A bit like the environment where there aren’t so many pressures, that drive, those motivations that certain environments give you and you dragged yourself along, all of this didn’t do anyone any good.”
On Lazio: “First of all, we have a duty and we want to play a dignified match otherwise it is a lack of respect for everyone, starting with us, for the work we do, for the club, so we have a duty, we want to play a good match because that’s right , there are many reasons. At Lazio in that period there was a lot of confusion, 16 players out of the squad, arguments, contracts, it was a very complicated situation to deal with, so much so that after that year 15-16 players changed, I think they left. They have a highly competitive squada team with great physical and technical qualities, they have put more aggression and physicality into their way of playing matches, they always look for one on one, they come to attack you, it has a much more physical impact than before where they were better to cover the field with respect to the ball, in this last period they are good at this but above all they go man against man.”
On the January transfer market: “We believe as a technical staff, yesLet’s see where we could possibly have done better. Time was short, time for summer preparation and then in September you are ready. We know where we could have done a little better than what has been done, it’s clear that we put our all into it, where we wanted to have an impact on the solidity, on the personality, there we wanted to have a greater impact, it happened but it happened little compared to that what we thought.”
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