The coach’s words on the eve of the Bergamo match to the club’s official channels: “With Atalanta a crucial hub, we have to try to win but the championship doesn’t end on Sunday”. And on the elimination from the Europa League: “Players heartbroken but serene and confident for the future: we played on equal terms with one of the strongest teams in the world”
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“CAtalanta is decisive as are all the direct clashes at the end of the championship. Even more so, it takes a different direction for us due to the fact that they have a game in hand and they will make up for it when the minds of the Fiorentina players, who are an excellent team, are probably somewhere else. But it is decisive, we have to go there and try to win this match. If we don’t succeed we have other opportunities because the championship doesn’t end on Sunday but it is certainly a truly crucial point”. As Daniele De Rossion the eve of the championship match on Sunday evening at Bergamo against theAtalanta, to the club’s official channels. “We know how important it is for us and for them, we know that it is a very healthy team but perhaps Atalanta is the only team that has played more games than us. So it will be a match to be spread over ninety minutes, we know that the strength could fail both for us and for them. We prepared it today for what you can prepare for a match only 48 hours after a match as physically and emotionally intense as the one in Leverkusen. We are confident”.
De Rossi and the elimination from the Europa League
“We would have preferred to arrive at this match with the same state of mind as Atalanta, they deserved to reach the finalthey are a very important reality. We didn’t deserve itwe were very good in my opinion, we played two matches that could have gone differently based on the episodes but overall what was seen on the pitch decreed that the best team went to the final. We congratulated Leverkusen and we also congratulate Atalanta because they are a very important reality but this is another match and the waste you bring with you must be good both as a player and as a coach to let it slip away before entering the pitch because it is another competition and we play a lot. I don’t see the boys happy, I see them heartbroken also because at a certain point we were tied and there were only a few minutes left, they played well but we had many episodes, including Spinazzola’s injury, all things that also changed our match plan during the race and the moments in which things were going well. So despite recognizing your opponent’s strength, skill and merits, you have that sense of injustice, of annoyance at the details that are on the wrong side of the field. Even their goal itself was quite fortuitous, but we recognize the merits of our opponents, the boys are calm and they all have a feeling of great confidence towards the future because they realize that we have played on equal terms with perhaps one of the strongest teams in the world at the moment”.
De Rossi and the anti-Atalanta team
“Training and changes? I’m thinking about it, for better or worse I have it in mind, I’m missing two or three doubts, partly due to everyone’s physical condition, partly because players are arriving who are a little tired and have played a lot of gamesbut it is true that it is perhaps the first time that we find ourselves playing on Sunday and knowing that I won’t play for the next 5/6 days, it’s not a bad thing to think about, resting and having a week to recover for the next match is something that makes me think that I can ask for something more from my players”.
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De Rossi: “I spied Gasperini, he inspires many”
“I like many things about Atalanta, the coach is one of the most innovativenow not so much because in this football he was taken as an inspiration by many coaches and many other teams but he is someone who brought something new to football, I think he will be remembered as someone who changed football, If we want. Even bringing football back to something that already existed, the duel, the man marking are children of a football of the past but he gave it a very modern nuance, and also in team building they look for players with certain characteristics who can afford to play in this way. He is a coach who I stopped at the end of the match when I was still playing, I asked him to go and spy on him because I was thinking of doing this job, because I was very curious. I think it’s something uniqueAtalanta and is giving inspiration to many other coaches.”
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