Cagliari Spezia on the pitch at 18.30 for the first Monday postponement of the first day of the Serie A 2021-2022 championship
So on the eve
Motta: 'The short squad is not an alibi but we have to start well'
- A match to be faced with courage and confidence, despite a pre-season upset by Covid and a short squad. Thiago Motta, the Spezia coach who faces Cagliari away from home, does not look for excuses. The Ligurian's second consecutive season in Serie A had difficult conditions, but the coach does not want and does not seek justifications. "The sensations are good seeing what we have done this week. It will be a difficult match, but we will face it with confidence and the desire to do well - says Motta -. Cagliari are a good team, last year they saved well," I look forward to attacking and playing to win, we will do the same thing ". The coach could re-propose the 3-4-3 used in the Italian Cup against Pordenone but the form "may change depending on theopponent and based on what we have to do "says Motta, who then has no doubts on the market and on the squad still in need of experience." These will never be excuses for us. We will never look for excuses, today we are these and we will face Cagliari with confidence, trying to make a good result. The heat? It will be like this for everyone, my players are physically fine. "
Simple: 'Nandez summoned while he is here. We want mentality and result "
- Cagliari freezes the market and thinks of La Spezia. With two novelties. The first concerns the clarification between Godin and the company. With the Uruguayan defender who comes out of the negotiations and definitively enters the Cagliari 2021-2022 project. Dialogue also reopened with Nandez: the midfielder could leave at any moment, but, as long as he is in Cagliari, he will be called up. And, if the coach wants it, he will take the field. "Godin is a valuable player and has always been in the group - explained the coach Leonardo Semplici on the eve of the debut in the postponement with Spezia - there was a clarification with the club and by mutual agreement we go on. It was a economic issue, he's always been with us on the pitch. Nandez? He clarified, apologized, he always trained with us: I don't see why I shouldn't use him. "A match in the middle of the transfer market: "It's a situation common to everyone, even to the big players - he explained - the coach and the club want to set up a competitive squad. But the club has spent a lot of money in recent years and the It is a difficult moment. We will make a virtue of necessity but in the incoming and outgoing operations we will keep this objective: to be competitive. For now, however, I think only of Spezia. I want the team to put into play that attacking mentality glimpsed in this pre-season. All this finalized to the achievement of a positive result ". Spezia with a thousand problems, but the coach does not trust: "It could also be - he explained - that difficult situations can also give an extra boost. I only know that tomorrow Cagliari will face a valuable team. And that Thiago Motta,I can say this because I faced him when he was coaching Genoa, he immediately gives his mark to the team's game. "The coach is not unbalanced on the formation. But the ballots are known: the inclusion of Deiola would exclude the use of Pereiro on the three quarters. While Nandez could be used on the right wing instead of Zappa. Among the squads there will also be the newcomer Grassi, but for the possible pass for the starting line-up the midfielder will have to have some more training on his legs. Semplici explained that he had also worked to try to put Pavoletti and Joao Pedro in a position to hit the net: "With Pisa - he explained - we made a lot of crosses, but we need to improve above all in the number of players to be sent into the area".