FIRENZE (ITALPRESS) – “We must start from the positive things that we are doing, from compactness, from determination, from the desire to go for a positive result.” Paolo Vanoli faces his absolute debut as a technician in a European competition with the desire to clear the field immediately from emotion (“There is no time to think about certain things”) and to focus on what his Fiorentina will have to do tomorrow against the Aek Athens, in the match valid for the Conference League. The desire is to replicate the good second time made last Saturday against Juventus and to give continuity of performance also in the European field. “We meet a team that I really enjoyed watching it in the videos because it has a coach that is very helpful, they almost always put six men on the defensive line, but at the same time they are very offensive, able to share because they have leg people especially on the outside – Vanoli emphasized. In the championship they are three points from the first in the ranking, in the Greek championship I was lucky to play, I know the hunger and determination they have when they play in the international field, also for the warmth of their typhoon”.
“In the championship they have the best defense, they have done a bit of extra effort in the cup, but surely they know very well, as we know, how much the Conference can turn every pronostico. That’s why I told my players that you have to know how to interpret the difference between championship and cup. This morning I showed the team how many players of the Aek passed into our championship, this for them is an advantage – Vanoli added. Someone knows Florence well (like the former violet Luka Jovic) and might have great stimuli. It is a propositive team, who knows in what context he will play tomorrow, for us it will be a race where we will have to take another small important step”.
Vanoli anticipated that in the Conference will be confirmed holder in door De Gea, that there will be space in attack for Dzeko, while in midfield you play his chance to be sided by the 1′ Hans Nicolussi Caviglia. “The Aek Athens works a lot on intensity but is also a team that plays. The temperamental aspect is what then makes you win the second balls, allows you to keep them and play them, it is too important component within a race. In the last few games we are focusing more on
this aspect,” explained the viola midfielder. “Mister Vanoli is giving us concepts that we are trying to learn as quickly as possible – he adds. Every training is important and valuable because we can put into practice what we see in the video sessions and which broadcasts us in his speeches. In the end it is in the field that you can find automatisms, but beyond this we are trying to start from a concept of compactness, to stay all united, we showed it in the last game where we found more solidity from this point of view”.
Playing against Aek Athens “is absolutely no obstacle, indeed – Vanoli explained –. It’s another game that will allow us to see our improvements, which allows me to see other players at work, and this is important to me. We have to watch the game. Now our thought is at this cup that comes even at the right time. If we want to become great we have to think that it is good to play every three days. Tomorrow I want to see growth not only on the aspect of the heart and sacrifice, I want to put something extra on the level of quality and technical-tactical aspect.” Possible that against the Aek you can see from the 1′, after the initial bench against Juventus, Albert Gudmundsson. “Playing in national gave him motivation, now he has to make a move, understand that whoever wants to become a champion must take the team by hand and drag it. I played with champions, even here in Florence, “and in difficult times they always dragged me, I demand from Albert this because he has the qualities, he is an important player for this team and for this group. I am convinced that in the end he can give us great satisfactions, but he must understand that he must become this, I expect it from him and also from some other player”.
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