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After the defeat against Lecce, Marco Baroni spoke at the press conference to explain the problems in the recent performances of the Granata.

Torino, Baroni: “We make mistakes and then we pay for them! We lack focus”

The Granata coach, Marco Baroni, spoke at the press conference after the defeat against Lecce. Here are his words, as reported by tmw:

On the mistakes

“We make mistakes and we pay for them. The team didn’t start as we wanted, with a bit of fear. The first goal could have been avoided, and then you create a situation that becomes difficult. The team reacted, created the conditions for an equalizer that we would have deserved. We need to remedy our fragility, it’s the team’s main problem. We thought we had solved some weaknesses that have resurfaced. The problem is mental; it’s normal to concede goals, but you have to stay in the game. With the substitutions, the team needed to regain attitude and solidity. Falcone made a save on Zapata’s header that was worth a goal, we created a lot. We lack focus in the final meters, both defensively and offensively.”

On Adams

“Zapata was coming off his first start against Como. I was thinking about the duration of the match and didn’t want to risk starting immediately with two strikers and then risk having difficulties later, since we didn’t have other strikers besides them. But the problem isn’t tactical, it’s mental.”

On penalty takers

“There was a ranking of penalty takers, the first was Vlasic and the second was Asllani.”

On fragility

“In the first half I don’t remember any saves by Israel. The opponent scored easily while creating little. It’s a fragility that needs to be fixed, the team has shown it can get out of difficulties, we need to do it quickly.

We threw away the first 25 minutes, I think it’s a matter of fragility that we absolutely need to correct. It’s not acceptable to concede two goals like that, one after the other. We have to work on this aspect.”

On the formation

“We played like this until Simeone’s injury. In this situation, I only had two center-forwards and I was also thinking about the duration of the match. It’s a matter of attitude, we can’t start like this: we waste the work done during the week. I have to take responsibility and remove these fears from the team.”

On Casadei

“Cesare needs to find more quality, he doesn’t have many Serie A matches under his belt and we’re trying to help him. When a match goes badly like this, a player so young suffers even more. There’s work to do and room for improvement, but not just for him: for everyone.”

Raffaele Morra

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇮🇹 here.