Vincenzo italiano, coach of Bologna, on the eve of the match worth the 33rd day of Serie A against Inter at 18:00 at the Renato Dall’Ara stadium, spoke as follows in a press conference.

The coach began by saying, “I would like to hear train for Europe, without always continuing to talk about Champions. The goal is Europe, then we will see which cup, if we should make the Champions fine, masterpiece, but Bologna’s goal is to enter Europe. The false step in Bergamo happens, we file, it happens. These are ranking areas where you have to go at supersonic speed, continuing to play at a certain level, thinking game by game. When you’re in those areas you don’t have to make mistakes, but if it happens you file it away and think about the next one. I don’t like to have this continuous obsession of losing points for Champions, then we’ll see what happens we also have an important Coppa Italia semifinal match. In the second half against Atalanta we reacted, we have to recover some important players, we will fight in this final of the season.”

He then continued: “We have to approach it differently, in Bergamo on the first two goals we had to put a patch on it, approach not up to the situation. But the reaction was there, we stayed in the game, we also tried different solutions with the players who came in, we didn’t find the goal to reopen it, but two and a half months played at a very high level are not destroyed by a performance against a strong team like Atalanta. Difficult and complicated calendar, but we have to change the approach, we did not manage to turn it around in Bergamo, but the confidence is there and must not be lacking.”

“Tomorrow we face one of the strongest teams in the world, performances against Bayern of the highest level. You have to have great application in the 90′, they can always expose the shortcomings of the opponents. They know how to play low and restart. Complete team in every way, has talents in all departments, great skills from the bench. Hopefully they will wake up a little tired from all these games they are facing, but we know what we are up against, they are playing every three days we know everything about what we are going to face: it will be necessary to be ready with our antennae straight from 1′ to the last minute, we must never pull the plug.”

“Thuram?

“Thuram? “For me nothing changes, always a team of the highest level, they play a lot and from memory, they have known each other for many years with the same coach. They are on the field with their eyes closed, they have codified plays quickly, fast, with correct choices, intense, we will have to counter. At home we have always performed at a high level, give our best after a defeat for our ranking. Those who do not suffer from one defeat deserve another, and we have suffered a lot and we will try to put our opponent in difficulty.”

He then concluded, “Odgaard 95% good, Castro 50%. Odgaard different than Castro suffered, Odgaard is in management miss the first two trainings but then when he comes in the last trainings he is better, we did not risk him in Bergamo. Castro still has discomfort in his foot but he is much better, in the coming days this recovery will be faster.”

“Often we worked well, in Bergamo we worked badly on that trajectory of the first goal, the second we have to be more awake, we stopped, we pulled the plug and in these situations you get punished. Casale still has some pain, but from the next one he could be there, or for Udine.” These are the words of Vincenzo Italiano in the press conference.