Ascoli, Viali sul Lecco: “It’s never nice to play with someone who changes coaches: you have few recommendations”

“We took advantage of the day off to work, took care of some details, the team worked very well, we came to this match ready. We are aware that to achieve a good result in Lecco we will have to play a difficult, decisive and bad match from a sporting point of view. In the last away matches we tried to win everywhere, even in Cremona and Brescia, I expect that the team will go to Lecco with the same determination as in the last two away matches”: as you can read on the official channels of the club, he begins like this, at the pre-match press conference, Ascoli coach William Viali.

He then continues on the eve of the match with Lecco: “Objectively, there is a numerical problem in defense, but I don’t like to approach matches with a negative mindset, we tried alternative solutions, so, in addition to conceding, the team is ready and we will go to Lecco to play a great match. In the middle of the field I have more repetitions, the average level of the team is increasing, I have some assessments in attack, Rodriguez has some muscle discomfort and will return to the group today. I have two more training sessions and then I will make the appropriate assessments. Caligara spent two weeks at a very high level, from a physical and psychological point of view, he did not allow himself to be soiled by the Negative episode against Sampdoria. Bogdan? “The minor operation to clean up his knee went very well, better than expected, and we’ll see him back on the field next week to see how he’s doing physically.”

I’m going to my opponent:”It’s never nice to play against teams that have changed coaches because you don’t have enough references., but lately this happens often. Lecco have always struggled in the matches they have played, with the exception of the match against Cosenza, they are a team that has never been tamed; in that stadium, which I know well, I expect a strong match from the opponent, difficult from the point of view of the purity of the game, it will also be a dirty match, but at such moments we will have to be able to hold on to it, we will have to play many different matches in one race. Is Novakovic the most dangerous? He is a very important player, but he is not the only one, they have three or four interesting young players, we will have to stay awake and limit mistakes because any little incident can change the game from one side to the other. We will have to give a very crisp and clean performance, we will have to be as precise as possible.”

And he concludes: “The turning point match in Lecco? Don’t think that the turning point has to come in Lecco.I don’t want my players to think that way because we have to realize that we have to play great to win. The team has been looking for an away win for a long time. He played great games, especially in the last two away games, but the results were achieved because the boys played well, not because of the opponents’ mistakes. Regardless of the opponent’s name, we had the strength, as well as the disadvantage, to influence the match on our own and I expect my team to go to Lecco with the same mentality, ready to fight for 95 minutes.”