Ternana, Lucarelli: Genoa are very strong, the quality of their dribbling is impressive. We must be good…

Statements by Cristiano Lucarelli, Ternana’s coach, on the eve of the away match in Genoa:

The situation in the infirmary…
Called Corrado, Donnarumma. Favilli is not. Capuano yes. Hammer yes. 23 called. Giringelli and Defendi – no. All others are available. Obviously, for each of them, this guarantees a certain number of minutes.

The fight between the great strikers on the bench: Gilardino-Lucarelli
He is doing very well. He deserves credit for doing well. I wish him, except tomorrow, continue to do well

How did Genoa change from Gilardino?
Now it’s a chameleon. Sturaro oscillates between midfield and attack. It doesn’t have an exact shape. It changes from game to game depending on the opponent.

Nearly 500 fans in tow…
Proportionately, they are more away than at home. We have fans who follow us everywhere when we’re not around. Also in Palermo on Tuesdays. We can only thank them and try to give them a lot of emotions.

Sturaro…
He is the player that allows you to have two modules in one game. We have Palumbo, who has the same attitude. Genoa has a great midfield, maybe a little less, but in terms of intensity and delivery, he’s one of the best.

Without Koda and Aramu, the danger to society is Gudmundsson and Puskas…
Genoa is a very strong team. Every Sunday there is an embarrassment of choice. There are many players who can also start in Serie A. This is a team, in addition to midfield players, it has many young players with prospects. We watched about ten matches of Genoa. Obviously, there are those who were waiting for them, those who appreciated them, and those who walked somewhere in between. This is the team that impressed me with the quality of their dribbling. Every game, their ball possession fluctuates between 65 and 70 percent. This is the team that hits you with the hammer. We have to be very organized, but also brave. Feelings are positive. We want to use every chance to leave with a positive result. We were very good at winning the championship without spectators. Tomorrow we will have to isolate ourselves very well and not take into account the pressure of the Genoese crowd, which will be very high.

Module replacement?
It continues as it has for the past few weeks. He could change someone’s position as needed. I see a team as bad as I like it and we can do more. We had a good week. There are all conditions to play an important game.

Is there a desire for revenge compared to the first match?
No. Because Genoa played her game. Until 1975, we lived like a fairy tale: every Sunday we had a full stadium, we were the first in the standings and proceeded from five victories. Perhaps we did not survive this defeat well. We didn’t take that knockout emotionally well when we say that in order to fight for certain positions, you need to have certain attitudes. In that game there, we had to take advantage of what was available: play on equal terms with Genoa for 75 minutes. Instead, we gave more importance to the end result and the two points that cost us the game. We had to start with that and we went to Bari to play our best without conceding a single goal and we were one of the few who did.

In the Ferraris bedlam, attention to yellow seconds should be very high …
If the referee was fiscal, we would have been given a penalty and a half. This championship will be remembered for having taught Ternana a whole host of new situations since Var existed. Let’s hope Var stops using Ternana as a guinea pig now. Var is now like a car: everyone drives it as they please. Who goes over the limit, who goes slowly.

The team is back in the tank?
But yes. We’ve been together for two and a half years. They know that for me a match is a war, a sports one, but it is a war. Each can defeat the other. I don’t like nice things. Football is a male sport.

Did you find Bogdan?
He may have suffered because after winning the B championship with Salernitana he gave up A to come to Terni, he was expected to be the owner in his head. The father is a former Serie A player. Perhaps the injury demoralized him. Now he has recovered well from the injury. He is a player who plays very well in B. In our quest to heal as many players as possible from injuries, and not just Luka in these two games, the way he entered the game gave me positive signals. In these ten games, I have to take him into account.

Capuano…
He spent three training sessions with us. This will require patience. But his very presence helps us. We thank the Primavera players who have helped us bring a decent amount of players to these games. Now turning around and looking at Luka or Marco is something else. We thank the Primavera trainer and the head of the youth sector. It was a way to get to know them and understand what was downstairs in case of an emergency. For us, even the very presence of Capuano is important.