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To the microphones of Dazn it’s the turn of Davide ballardini for a long series of questions and a long series of technical-tactical and management considerations for Genoa since his arrival on the bench: «I am talking about this game because we have already commented on the others. Genoa tonight… we could have been better handling the ball in some moments of the game. It is true that we play against a great team but we know how to handle the ball better. We have already done it many other times. Tonight we weren’t so bright, lucid; we have been against a great team on occasions».
A game against a great team that could certify the results that have been seen here. The question arises spontaneously, or where would Genoa be if it had started with Ballardini? “This does not matter. Genoa is proving to have players – I repeat because it helps to repeat – very serious and aware of being a team. And when you have serious players, who are a team and within the team you have quality players, this is what comes out».
Pandev, at the end of the race, stressed that with the arrival of Ballardini there is “serenity”. Is this what you’ve been focusing on from the beginning? Tonight the maturity due to trust showed. A goal that comes after twenty-one passes in a row: “For me serenity is conquered on a day-to-day basis, you conquer it with great desire, many motivations, a lot of training, many ideas and then you reach the climax, the important moment that maybe you feel strong and also get good results, but yes. you don’t get the results you don’t have serenity».
A very brave team, since Ballardini has been around, with a high defense and above all with a brave Badelj to go and take Demme many meters from his area with Strootman and Zajc who have done an extraordinary job: «I agree because we are very careful in the defensive phase, we are good at covering the field, we are aggressive. We also know how to be better with the ball. Tonight we play against a great team that is close to you. They have leg players, strength players and that is why they put you in great difficulty but we have been very good at putting pressure on who has the ball and who can receive it and at times we could have been much better handling the ball.».
Strootman gave something extra. Toned, intelligent, quality player and immediately part of the project. He looks like a Genoa player from two championships: «I agree but he has an advantage because he is a very intelligent boy, very serious, very humble and we know his qualities. It’s a great buy. First of all, he took a thick and very special man».
The most difficult thing about this “resurrection”. Some characteristics of courage, pressure, compactness, of group unity are evident. This is a completely transformed team for the head even more than for the tactical ideas. What was the key ?: “For me the key is the players, the people you have on the team. We are dealing with serious guys, who care a lot. When you compare yourself with guys who want to give their best, the coach is excited because there is a lot of involvement with his players during the week, there is a lot of attention, there is a lot of intensity, there is the exaltation of individual qualities».
Ballardini found a group that, asked what they asked, followed him, understood him, and perhaps the greatest satisfaction in the tactical aspect. Found that sensation in mind, the empathy of the players who responded well; today a perfect car and today the players followed what he had said before the game: “We did not have a perfect game, but a good game against a team that for me has to fight to win the championship of the squad they have. They have to fight on all fronts because they really are a very well formed team. Genoa played a game of great attention, of great sacrifice, of great pressure. For me, Genoa can be better handling the ball in continuity».
Pandev said that after the Euro Cup he will see what to do: «Meanwhile, Pandev must get it right now. From now until the end of the championship he has to do what he gives us every day. He gives us his intelligence, his sympathy, his good spirit and then his great qualities and his great humility because he is an example in all this. From now until the end of the championship he will have to be what he has always been: an example for the man he is and for the player who continues to be and is an excellent player. And then we will see».
