Saturday, February 20, 2010
Zac: "Compactness Is Our Strength»
«We are about to face a team which is fresh from three away matches during which they won against Bari, Fiorentina and Livorno, drew with Chievo and Verona and at home with Milan».
The last results of Bologna, spoken of by Zaccheroni during the press conference, were more then eloquent. The Juventus coach knows he will be meeting a team which is in form and a great deal is owed to his colleague Franco Colomba: «He joined when the season had already begun and was very clever to immediately undertsand the players he has. Without too much pomp he managed to take advantage as best he could of the available players, immediately focusing on the objective and obtaining the disposition of the team and results».
When he made to note the same words can be said about him, Zac shielded himself: «I just arrived and haven’t yet given a culture to this team. It has not yet been made more solid. Colomba had more time at his disposal to give his players equilibrium and work for results. I am still trying to do so».
Against Genoa and Ajax, however, progress could be seen: «The victory against Ajax is linked more to compactness of the team then to tactical chemistry. I work on equilibriums and then the players must interpret the individual moments. Even though I have recently got to know the boys, I believe I can exclude they think they have solved all the problems. The characteristic I liked most of this team is compactness. They hold each otehr’s hands, play like a team and not as single players but we haven’t yet done anything: we have had a breath of fresh air and got back into the group. I will be careful that this concept is clear».
The message is clear, the team must keep their feet on the ground: «I do not dream. I give myself priorities: the first is to have the best Amauri, Del Piero, Trezeguet, Camoranesi, Grygera, etc... managing to bring to the right form all the players I have available to be able to make the best choice. I do not like to field players who are out of form».
The words thens hifted to the conditions of the single players: «Trezeguet is not yet ready for the full 90 minutes but he can play part of the match. Having been at a stop for a long time he has still way to go. Sissoko must recover the best condition: not that his performance is not satisfactory but we are used to getting much more from him. I think this moment is the consequence of various injuries which he had to deal with. Marchisio as winger with a 3-strong defence? He has the characteristics to play in this position but he must think everytime he is about to move because he is not used to playing in that way and I tend to avoid such situations. I am here to facilitate the role of the players and not to complicate it. Melo? He has great qualities and I am working for him to develop them and maintain them not only in one match but in all of them».
With regards to single players, Bologna will be missing Di Vaio: «He is the best striker of the team and therefore with him absent Bologna will be losing out a great deal even though the forward line is probably the best of their departments, in fact they are the team with the highest goal average in comparison to the number of goal opportunities created.».
Picking up on a question about the situation of supporters in Italy, Zaccheroni widened the subject to the whole football culture: «Our problem is the daughter of the result. I do not like to make comparisons but we often see foreign football on television, particularly English and Spanish. In the first they ask for great generosity while in the second they praise the players if they play good football. In our country, if we win 1-0 with one shot on goal and 8 posts hit by the opponents, we are happy. It is our culture, starting from the nurseries and we must live with it».
Finally, as an answer to those who asked him to replicate to Mourinho’s provocation, Zac answered by saying: «First of all I have many problems to solve and cannot afford to be distracted by thinking of something else. Secondly, I am not a commentator and finally the Federation did not give me the role to say what is right and what is not in Italian football».
Juventus.com
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