BIRMINGHAM (ENGLAND) (ITALPRESS) – Bologna arrived in Birmingham 45 minutes late and therefore Vincenzo Italiano’s press meeting on the eve of the Champions League match at home to Aston Villa also slipped from the schedule. “It’s clearly an important match, it’s another mini championship and we have to try to score points,” said the Rossoblu coach, “First of all we need the performance because if not it’s difficult. In the other two previous matches from this point of view we did it, now we have to try to put a little more guile and fury to try to get a result.” On the qualities of Emery Italiano’s team, he has clear ideas: “They have great speed when they restart, great compactness without the ball, players of the highest level and then at this moment they are in great confidence: they come from so many games unbeaten, they won the last one away from home, in Champions League they won the first two, it will be up to us to put them in trouble. As we did in Liverpool, with a great personality, with a great performance from the point of view of dribbling, of chances created, trying to suffer as little as possible and when we suffer, do it as a team.” The coach of the Felsini also dwelt on Ndoye and the choice between Castro and Dallinga going forward: “Ndoye is recovered, he is fine today and I am happy about that because not having him in Genoa was an important sacrifice. Better to skip a game than to have a longer period of inactivity. Tomorrow we’ll see who will start up front: we’ve had a day to prepare for it, we need fresh players and a big hand from the subs. For the forwards now with these close games like this you don’t train anymore. You have to think about recovery, what the guys’ conditions are, try in a training session to concentrate all that can be the strategy. Someone is recovered but not 100 percent, tomorrow we will see. We are also trying something alternative, see the double point: in Genoa Odgaard we had tried him for 15 days in this three-quarter position, we want to try something different because under goal we need to score a few more goals. Let’s see tomorrow what we can do.” Finally, a thought to the city of Bologna, which was badly affected by the weekend’s floods: “The thought goes to these people, there are still those who shovel mud and the thought goes to them. Sorry for what happened, we too encountered difficulties on our return from Genoa: the sports center flooded, we had to move training. Sorry for those people who lost so much, tomorrow we will try to give something in terms of extra sweat for these people, because they will be there to cheer for us – concluded Italiano – and we will go stronger for them too.”- Photo Ipa Agency -(ITALPRESS).
