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Milan, Sergio Conceiçao makes self-criticism

The words of Sergio Conceiçao
Sergio Conceiçao spoke in a press conference on the eve of Feyenoord-Milan, first leg of the Champions League play-offs. “We don’t have so many options,” he began, “There are 15 movement players plus the youngsters, between injuries and those who are not on the Champions list. The coaches have to find solutions. We play in 11, the balance is achieved with the whole team. We want to do well and find balance, not è that if you have a lot of offensive players you score more goals and if you have a lot of defenders you don't concede any. Every game has its moments and we need this balance”.
On Rafael Leao: “È available, as in previous games. È it was my choice not to start him as a starter, but when he è entered he did well as we want him to do. È available, I’m not saying if he plays as a starter”.
Great former of the challenge Santiago Gimenez: “Santi è a player I followed for years. All of us in soccer evolve day by day: he è young, he has a long way to go. È he è already a top player. If he scores goals è credit to the whole team. Like if Mike does not get so many goals, è because of the work of the whole team. He has quality è to finalize the actions that the team creates, he has so much talent. He has to keep working, the team needs him with and without the ball. I am very happy with him and everyone else right now”.
“È a special game for everyone, è important and we are here because of our fault because weé could have been already in the Round of 16. We want to take this responsibility;. The change of technical staff creates different motivation in the group. È a Champions game, on a historically difficult field. I played there three years ago with Porto. È a difficult, tough, hot environment. We also have our problems, with players out. We will make the history of the game, the future depends on what we do. If we go in with the right attitude, putting on the field what we have prepared, then there will be a chance to get a good result”.
“È a matter of results. Coaches always have their bags packed, everything changes quickly in soccer. The important thing is to look at the present, the future depends on what we do today. I am not worried about that, even in Porto they told me that maybe I would stay 3-4 months and instead I stayed 7 years” concluded Conceiçao.
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Verona, Paolo Zanetti regrets the'only mistake
These are the words of Verona coach Paolo Zanetti to Sky Sport after the 1-0 defeat against Roma at the Stadio Olimpico.
“We took the goal on the’only mistake, the only blunder we made in a game, in my opinion, that was important, a game where we were in it against a high level Roma, but today we played a game with courage”.
“We really came here to really try also to play the game for a good part, we also lacked the important kick, normal that when you then leave space in the restart of such players, then afterwards all the quality comes out”.
“With the game we came many times to bring many men in Roma’s half of the field, in the area we made a lot of crosses, we often missed the last pass, we probably lacked a little bit’ of quality, with the understanding that we were also meeting a team that has players of the highest level”.
“So it wasn“t easy, however, I can’t say anything about the commitment and the desire to bring home points, then the details, as we know, make the difference in these matches””
concluded Zanetti.
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Roma, Claudio Ranieri dreams of Champions League and reaffirms his future
These are the words of Roma coach Claudio Ranieri to the microphones of Sky Sport after the 1-0 victory against Verona.
“Champions League? It’s not easy, it’s one thing to say these guys are doing an extraordinary thing, it’s another to say we’re going to Champions.
“There is the dream, then there are the thoughts and then the’action. It is not a walk in the woods. We started the championship badly, but it has to finish possibly well”.
“There’s a good group, that’s why I don’t stay. Then you have to give the new coach time to shape the team, with me it would be a lost year.
“We have a lot to do, right to step aside with a coach who knows what he wants”. On the possibility that Ancelotti might take his place, Ranieri says: “I don”t talk about the new coach anymore.
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Ferrari’s disappointment, Lewis Hamilton demoralized
Here are the words of Ferrari’s team principal Frederic Vasseur and the two Maranello factory drivers Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton, who were fourth and seventh, respectively, at the end of qualifying for the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix at the Jeddah circuit.
“We are three tenths off pole position, it is true, but in the race we have a good pace. Since the beginning of the season we have always gone better in the race than in qualifying, so tomorrow anything is possible. It is true that we struggle a bit’ in Turn 1 but on the rest of the track we are on the times of the others.”
“Hamilton is almost nine tenths off pole and I think that because he still does not have total confidence in the car, he struggles a little bit’on this track so limited by the barriers– continued Vasseur -But in Bahrain Lewis made a good comeback and we think it can happen again tomorrow”.
“The disappointment is high, because it was a track on which we had higher hopes – added Leclerc -. Today is confirmation that we lack potential, although I am happy because I found the right direction in qualifying. It is difficult, but I extracted the maximum in my lap, risking going to the wall two or three times.”
“It was a tricky qualifying as always – says Hamilton -. This weekend I was nowhere to be found, I couldn’t even grow that much from session to session, however, I am grateful to have entered Q3, given the level. The last lap was not spectacular, but improvements we are making.”
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