Pioli: "Positive performance, it wasn't easy"
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00:00 I have discovered in my players a willingness and a skill, also from a tactical point of view, that allows me to make the choices I want but also to space.
00:10 The departure of Pobega forced us to change some positions, then we changed them again.
00:16 But when there is this attention, this determination, this absolute desire to win the game, then I don't think it's a problem.
00:26 We have to play better, better in and out, lower and higher.
00:30 We did well, we did it as a team, against a team that plays good football.
00:35 We suffered when we had to, we were dangerous when we had to.
00:42 So it was a positive day.
00:45 I am collecting the work done by the club, by the youth.
00:53 There are two important characteristics, talent and attitude, great attention to work, great application.
01:03 We have to congratulate the people working under us, the boys, but at the same time not to overburden them with expectations.
01:13 They are young boys, we have to give them time to make mistakes, to grow, but they have to keep going.
01:18 Camarda, Bartesaghi, Simic, with these attitudes, they are incredible workers, they are already well in the group.
01:25 And this is the most important aspect, they are already very respected by their teammates.
01:30 We have to keep going like this, but I am happy for them, because they are important satisfactions.
01:37 I have no doubt about the potential of the team.
01:39 I have no doubt.
01:40 I keep telling my players that we have to focus on ourselves.
01:46 Only we can determine our future, our present and our results.
01:52 The team has potential, the club has worked well.
01:57 Unfortunately we had some difficulties, some of them because of our own fault, some of them because of the injuries.
02:04 Because football is like this, it is difficult to keep a certain level, it is difficult to confirm yourself in the league.
02:12 We knew the difficulties of a difficult game in the Champions League.
02:16 We were very close to doing something important, but we didn't succeed.
02:21 But this doesn't make us lose confidence, our quality, and keep working as we are doing.
02:29 And think that there is only the next game, not that there will be others.
02:35 If you think that the next game is the last game you can play, you have to face it with determination.
02:42 You have to show your will to win, to show your highest quality.
02:47 We have to keep thinking like this.
02:49 This team has always shown that when you can play with fun, or play without thinking, you can do better.
02:58 We live with great intensity the positive and negative moments.
03:05 There were moments where it is difficult to be light, where it is difficult to be heavy.
03:11 We have high expectations for our work, for our results.
03:16 But we have to keep going like this.
03:19 I liked everything about the team today.
03:21 We played well in the game, we suffered when we had to suffer together.
03:24 We worked with compactness, we were dangerous.
03:27 We changed positions a lot, we never lost our balance, we never lost our distance.
03:34 It was a positive performance, not easy, after the fatigue of Wednesday.
03:39 We have an opponent that knows how to play football well.
03:41 Today all the indications are positive.
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