Fragments of Childhood: “When I was a kid, I watched the Champions Cup on TV and dreamed of playing in it one day. Today I even won my first match.”
Fragments of a won match: “We took no risks against a very strong team like Dortmund and in the second half two players came on (the reference is to Odgaard and Dallinga, ed.) who turned the game on its head. It’s a great sign for the whole group.”
Vincenzo Italiano he’s enjoying it. At the final whistle, the rossoblù coach celebrated like a happy child, clenching his fists and jumping like a crazy cricket. He did so by giving a symbolic bow to all sectors of a Dall’Ara inebriated with joy.
It’s the perfect night: the one that Vincenzo and his boys had dreamed of, but above all had prepared for in a big way.
“We studied Borussia on video in fact with just one training session – says the coach – and this says a lot about the application that the boys I train have”.
From the Sky studio Capello praises him and even starts the applause. “Guys, you give me the shivers like this,” the pilot of a Bologna who despite the victory leaves the scene from this Champions.
“It’s a shame to have to leave the scene,” the coach admitted. “But tonight I’m happy and excited as if we had won a quarter-final or a semi-final. Also because seeing the joy in the eyes of my boys and the whole stadium at the end was beautiful.”
He pauses and in that pause he seems to want to pinch himself invisibly: “Today I achieved my first victory in the Champions League, for me it’s a dream come true.”
But the dream rests on solid foundations: those of a daily hammering work on minds and muscles. Without neglecting tactics. “We studied their way of defending very high – reveals Italiano – and we knew that if we had attacked them in the right way we could have reached the goal. That’s what we did in the second half, thanks to the entry of two who split the game”.
Our thoughts turn to Odgaard and Dallinga, the red and blue heroes of the night in extended company. And we turn to a championship that now remains an obligatory front, together with the Italian Cup, to remain in the Europe that counts.
“It’s our president’s dream,” he added, “and it has become our goal, but without making it a reason for pressure. We want to stay in Europe because it is by playing consistently, over the years, against opponents of this level that you train the habit of facing this type of match.”
Games where the slightest thing is enough to derail. “The penalty taken in that way at the beginning could have compromised the game plan but Holm did well not to make any more mistakes despite the warning”, the coach underlines.
And now focus on Saturday’s trip to Empoli. “Another battle awaits us,” the coach concludes, “but it’s nice this way.” No, it’s beautiful.
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