Davide Ballardini
SassuoloGabriele Cioffi
Udinese
Meeting Highlights…PREPARATION
In the meantime, we have used them to get to know each other better. You increasingly enter into a relationship which, let's say, consolidates and you are happy to spend a lot of time with these guys because you are dealing with good guys, guys who care, guys with qualities, so it's nice to spend time with guys like that. Then after that there's everything else, in addition to training and before training, preparing for training, because what you do on the pitch is important but it's equally important what you do off the pitch is important, so for us they were very intense and I also think very productive days.
…OPPONENT
Udinese are more or less the team from last year and in my opinion they have little to do with the bottom of the table because they have a strong leg, they have quality in every department and precisely because of their physical structure and technical qualities for you can compare Udinese perhaps not to Atalanta but let's say to Turin, those medium-high ranking teams, so Udinese has a squad that is certainly very competitive. All we need is to play a good game, we need each of us that we give our best, not that we do more than we are capable of: it is important that each of us gives the best we can on Monday afternoon and we are already happy with this.
…ATTACK FOOTBALL
You have to be good in both phases but you have to be so attentive and determined when the others have the ball, you have to be good with the ball, you have to be good at attacking the goal when we attack and above all you have to do it because the others are only they give you nothing, so when you attack you have to attack with more players, always maintaining a balance, even when you are in the offensive phase, balance, compactness is also important, defensive thinking is also important when you attack because you have to think that you can lose the ball and you still have to be in balance. You have to attack the goal, you have to finish the action with another anger, with another determination, with a different fury and desire because we were good but not so decisive in closing in finishing the action. Here in Rome we were good because we were almost always orderly during the match but in the offensive phase we were not very incisive. Why were you not very incisive? Because you don't have that malice, that determination, maybe even that clarity to hurt your opponents, then we all need to be better there.
Davide Ballardini
Manager on Sassuolo…PREPARATION
In the meantime, we have used them to get to know each other better. You increasingly enter into a relationship which, let's say, consolidates and you are happy to spend a lot of time with these guys because you are dealing with good guys, guys who care, guys with qualities, so it's nice to spend time with guys like that. Then after that there's everything else, in addition to training and before training, preparing for training, because what you do on the pitch is important but it's equally important what you do off the pitch is important, so for us they were very intense and I also think very productive days.
…OPPONENT
Udinese are more or less the team from last year and in my opinion they have little to do with the bottom of the table because they have a strong leg, they have quality in every department and precisely because of their physical structure and technical qualities for you can compare Udinese perhaps not to Atalanta but let's say to Turin, those medium-high ranking teams, so Udinese has a squad that is certainly very competitive. All we need is to play a good game, we need each of us that we give our best, not that we do more than we are capable of: it is important that each of us gives the best we can on Monday afternoon and we are already happy with this.
…ATTACK FOOTBALL
You have to be good in both phases but you have to be so attentive and determined when the others have the ball, you have to be good with the ball, you have to be good at attacking the goal when we attack and above all you have to do it because the others are only they give you nothing, so when you attack you have to attack with more players, always maintaining a balance, even when you are in the offensive phase, balance, compactness is also important, defensive thinking is also important when you attack because you have to think that you can lose the ball and you still have to be in balance. You have to attack the goal, you have to finish the action with another anger, with another determination, with a different fury and desire because we were good but not so decisive in closing in finishing the action. Here in Rome we were good because we were almost always orderly during the match but in the offensive phase we were not very incisive. Why were you not very incisive? Because you don't have that malice, that determination, maybe even that clarity to hurt your opponents, then we all need to be better there.
Gabriele Cioffi
Manager on Udinese…INJURY REPORT
I want to thank the national team staff and the coach for their sensitivity. Lorenzo was tired, he trained with reasonable continuity but we will have the last match tomorrow to decide how much to use him on Monday. Zemura and Nehuen Perez come from a good career in the national team, Nehuen practically made his second debut with Argentina. They come from international trips, Jordan also played a game as a midfielder and gives us an interesting idea for the future, yes they are training at full capacity from today. Payero had an ankle problem during the break, he recovered well, he trained, he has exponential room for improvement.
…ABOUT MATCH
The DNA of a team is difficult to change, you can work on the limits and I believe that the team is already working in this direction, the defeat against Torino was not painless after a positive string of results. A very important match awaits us on Monday. This is the first step.
…PREPARATION
We worked without nine players so little with the group, we worked understanding that sometimes you can't come out of difficult moments by being gloomy. There could be surprises in attack.