Mazzarri is disappointed: “We shouldn’t have retreated after the goal. We made unforgivable mistakes, dear payers”
CAGLIARI. The stopwatch like a rosary in your hands. Walter Mazzarri will have invoked his patron saint when there was a few minutes to go. But even this time it didn’t help. Bonazzoli’s goal in the 90th minute made him salt in front of the bench. He left the field nervous, with a devil for a hair, aware that Cagliari threw away a victory that he had deserved and that would have given the team a great boost. Instead, now he has to manage not only a very difficult ranking situation but he has to find the words and the way to give strength to a locker room which, it is easy to imagine, has morale under the heels. Yesterday there were even those who questioned his bench, but if President Gulini (yesterday at the end of the match his face was a whole program) did not change his mind within a few days, the coach remains, at least for now, in its place.
The technician waits for a long time at the end of the match. Only he speaks, the players remain silent. The bitterness is palpable, it seems that it does not want to stop raining in the wet. When the coach said yes to Cagliari’s proposal, he did not expect all these problems and not even the gigantic dose of bad luck that is haunting his team. We conceded an avoidable goal, still the result of our inattention. We made a siege before scoring the goal. I counted fifteen against one of them. It is difficult after such a performance as we lost. Perhaps we are afraid, we did everything ourselves ».
Mazzarri tries to give an explanation. «After the goal we stopped, lowered too much. We pay dearly for the distraction. It is true that our attitude in the final, when you unlock it must be more wicked, go to press and not hole up. Today I could have expected everything but not scoring like that. I’ll talk to the guys, I want to understand what’s going on in their head. It is not easy to give an explanation for the peer ».
R.M.