On the pitch Torino-Cagliari 0-0 DIRECT, postponement of the first day of Serie A football.
Ranieri: ‘Exciting debut, strong grenade but we can play our chances’
Ranieri ready to return to Serie A with his Cagliari. It is the second time after thirty-three years. In ’90 it was Inter, on Monday it will be Turin.
“I’ll be excited but I’ll keep it inside, I’ll see my team fight and I’ll do it with great desire, we have to look forward and not to the past, which is beautiful but now a new story has begun”.
Immediately a very difficult game. “Il Torto has a good coach and it’s a team that last season reached mid-table and that travels on consolidated mechanisms – explains the Rossoblu coach in the press conference to present the match – We’re going to play for it. We know we have to fight, respect , but then we play. Just as they will try to put us in difficulty, we will try to do it.
A team that we know well, maybe they don’t know us well, this too could be a small advantage. We’re eleven against eleven and so we’ll see if we can take our chances.”
Second official match after Palermo. “Those 130 minutes – recalls Ranieri – allowed us to speed up the journey towards better condition. We are not at 100 per cent, like everyone else”. Two defenders and an attacker will arrive, the coach guarantees. “I’m fully satisfied – he comments – We’re working well, all the goals we set for ourselves have arrived or will arrive. The two defenders and also the striker we need will arrive. The transfer market is difficult, it’s made up of ideas and luckily we have people We coaches would like to have the team already made, but it’s not our club’s fault, the best thing would be to have shortened dates for the transfer market, so as to start the season with full squads, so in the end the movements are made anyway in the last days”.
Meadows? “He has an excellent vision of the game – underlines the coach – he was one of the first we had put on the notebook, I liked him immediately when we played against Spal. I also called De Rossi to find out better who he was.
It’s a type of player that we didn’t have in the squad: he works hard, he’s diligent, in addition to the technical qualities that everyone recognizes in him.”
And then Jankto. “He was already back in the group last week, in this one he did everything the others did so he’s going towards 100% condition,” he clarifies. As for Sulemana it was love at first sight. “He stole my eyes as soon as I saw him – Ranieri confesses – when the president and the sports director told me that there was an opportunity to have him with us, I immediately answered yes. He plays simple, upright, great recovery of balls. We needed a player like that.” Shomurodov? “He’s fine, he’s available, then – specifies the coach – it’s up to me to decide how to use him during the match but he gives me guarantees”.
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2023-08-21 17:35:07
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