The words of Paolo Zanetti

Paolo Zanetti analyzed the home loss to Monza: “Today è it was a bad night, but not è everything to throw away for what we saw on the field. We conceded the goal right away on an important individual play, but their goalkeeper è was the best on the field and that says a lot. Then we suffered on the spurts of Djuric, with the defense lined up and with the characteristics of their center forward that are known to everyone. Surely there are merits on the part of our opponents, but we were naive and we have to grow up becauseè in Serie A the level è high and they do not forgive you when you make mistakes”

“Sometimes we misread, against a Monza that è put everything behind pushing us to force some plays. We created more than they did, the statistics speak for themselves, the Biancorossi è cynicism was facilitated by a Verona that è complicated life for itself. We have to reason on our faults and shut up because è we lost 3-0 at home and there’è nothing else to say. The championship è long, on the field we gained a good position in the standings and we have to file this night as negative, but important to grow and to recompose ourselves”.

“The substitutes? They did what I asked. Kastanos created, in Serdar they saved a made goal on the line, in Sarr they closed spaces but he helped out. It’s obvious that then they made it 0-2 and that cut us off. The others were more awake than us, when you are well positioned and defend in four and their striker finds himself face to face with our goalkeeper è obvious that there’è to reason”.

“Now it will concernò the game, in our path we have to budget for ups and downs while waiting to find continuityà. We have to look at ourselves by restarting from the good things that go beyond a result that, in our analysis, cannot” erase everything”.

Nesta’s words

Alessandro Nesta spoke to Sky Sport after the 3-0 win in Verona: “We work and live for successes. È it was a long wait, we all wanted it, we had never won”.

” We are very happy. We wanted to attack between full-back and centre-back with Mota, Caprari had to come and link up. We started well, then Djuric for us è a factor, when we are closed and lose playing time, put it on him è so much stuff”, he added.

“Definitely wins unlock everything becauseé losing and drawing hurts, you lose confidence and courage in the game. When you win è it’s another thing, the team è always been on the ball, we had a lot of injuries, but there were good matches even against the bigs. We grit our teeth, we had a practice with 9 Primavera last week, this is not good for us. I congratulated them even when we lost, they don’t deserve certain results”.

Ending on Totti who said he would like to come back and play: “I wish him the best of luck, if he feels up to it. Just thinking about it I could get hurt, I wish him the best of luck”.

Superbike, test

A few hours from the conclusion of the 2024 season, at the Circuito de Jerez – Angel Nieto kicks off with a two-day test the MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship in which we will see for the first time the new Bimota KB998 with which the Italian manufacturer is preparing to return to the World Championship; this will beà also the first time of Garrett Gerloff on a Kawasaki.

The Bimota KB998 will be on its debut in Jerez, entrusted to Alex Lowes and Axel Bassani, who in 2025 will be riders in the Bimota by Kawasaki Racing Team, a new project under the leadership of Provec Racing, with the latter featuring Kawasaki green until 2024.

Garrett Gerloff, after Yamaha and BMW, is about to begin his third experience with a different manufacturer in WorldSBK: the Kawasaki Puccetti Racing team and the ZX-10RR await him. Ryan Vickers in 2025 will race in WorldSBK with Team Motocorsa Racing riding the Panigale V4 R that until recently has been fighting for the podium.

In action in Jerez is the Aruba.it Racing – Ducati team, with Nicolò Bulega and Alvaro Bautista who will try to get off to a good start in 2025. Bulega last weekend in Jerez won two races, a weekend to forget instead for Bautista. Also on track with the Panigale V2 is Philipp Oettl who returns to the WorldSSP together with the world champion team in 2023 and 2024. Team HRC will field Xavi Vierge, also considering that Iker Lecuona è out after crashing in Tissot Superpole Race. The Honda test team and the Honda Racing UK team will also take part in the test.

Absent instead is the newly crowned 2024 world champion Toprak Razgatlioglu (ROKiT BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team) who will be busy in Turkey in the title celebrations, although è BMW is expected to be on track.