Cioffi after the defeat against Napoli: “Many things worked, let’s start from there”

The coach tries to explain the start of the recovery: «Management attitude». In the final, even the penalty denied to Soppy: “It could have been, let’s move on”

UDINE. “Many things worked, let’s start from there.” Gabriele Cioffi from the belly of the Diego Armando Maradona stadium tries to push the button of optimism in front of Dazn’s cameras, ultimately he spent an afternoon of apprehension at Napoli, the championship super-Napoli who had made four of them in the first leg (to zero ) to Friuli. Then, however, the technician opens a window to criticism, or rather, to self-criticism. «Yes, we had several scoring in the first half, but that’s not the regret. During the week I will talk about it with the boys, in the second half a management attitude emerged ».

Even in the press room Cioffi puts that “worm” on the table. “Maybe we needed more courage,” he replies to those who ask him what has changed in the interval, when his colleague Spalletti shuffled the cards from his deck by inserting Mertens. “We had to respond with more anger to their reaction in the second half: from a tactical point of view we were not wrong and the substitutions of the opponents did not disorient us, it was a question of attitude that then affected the two episodes capitalized by Napoli, episodes that they decided the game ».

Alongside these words, those of appreciation for football that Udinese showed yesterday. Especially in the first half, when the restarts scared Napoli. «We have players of leg and depth. I think they should be exploited like this. But we can do it thanks to an iron attitude in defense, even today the strikers did an impressive job ».

From this consideration to the names to be “polished” it is a short step. «Deulofeu’s sacrifice and Pussetto in the last part of the race should be underlined, because dirty work allows us to make ourselves dangerous. We did it until the last minute, even outnumbered ». Words to honey also for Beto, despite a couple of serious aiming errors for a center forward: “I think he will become a champion, I don’t think I’m exaggerating in saying that he will become at the level of Osimhen”, he says in the umpteenth day as protagonist of the Nigerian of the Naples.

Also on Saturday, after the controversy that broke out with the penalty against Roma, there were “out of tune” whistles for Udinese. The possible foul on Beto who initiated the action of the 2-1 blue, the “red” to Marì. And that penalty not granted to Soppy after an intervention by Mario Rui. «It could have been there», Cioffi points out who then, in the second place, adds: «Maybe there was, maybe not, let’s go on».