Spalletti: “Fagioli is not Paolo Rossi, mine is a technical choice”
The coach: "Scamacca has grown. He has size and creativity... sometimes he's a bit lazy"
ROMA – “Fagioli is a technical choice, then for the rest they are two slightly different stories compared to Paolo Rossi”. Luciano Spalletti inaugurates the retreat press conferences by talking about who is there and who isn’t, amidst more or less creeping controversies. Beans, for starters. Straight from the disqualification for betting on the blue. “Fagioli has that quality, that flair… – says the coach – He lacks the body, the physical clash, but I called him to have more things available that make you manage the match, the attempt to find more things to have the ball. Then the field will evaluate whether we made the right choice or the wrong one, the boy said some wonderful things in the last interview he gave on the day of the Italian Cup final in Rome. I was lucky that Juventus was there so we could talk to them and it made an excellent impression on me. I think he also deserves a bit of understanding, he didn’t bet on his things but because he was in the throes of a moment of difficulty and couldn’t handle it. he did to defend himself from this temptation. It was purely a technical choice.”
Spalletti confirms Donnarumma as captain. And then he talks about schemes: “First of all we would like to set up a game that is not rigid, but rather free. As everyone would like. The more unpredictability there is, the more we will be a surprise for our opponents. Four or three? We would like to know how to everything. The game systems are no longer so rigid, they teach us this right here in Coverciano. Many of the opponents play 4231 or 433, so we will defend with four, but we could build with three a bit defensive”.
Scamacca? “I want to see sacrifice, our values; we Italians are people who work to build work, I also start from these same concepts. And in some ways I didn’t like Scamacca, and in fact I left him out. I have plenty at my disposal many and, if someone doesn’t give more than his best, it becomes difficult. Lately Scamacca has shown great growth, performances, goals, continuity. He has size and creativity… sometimes he’s a bit lazy let him lose a bit of laziness, maybe he has lost it…”