Palermo is already looking ahead to the championship match against Südtirol.
On Monday 30 September, starting at 7:30 p.m., Palermo will be playing away against the Bolzano team.
We need to work harder to provide continuity and move beyond an episode. We tend to focus more on negative episodes than on positive ones, and we need to move beyond them.
Furthermore, we need to have an impact on events by providing as much continuity as possible, and in this I am liking the team for now.
We are ambitious, and it is right that there are expectations around us. On Monday we will have an important test, you know what the opposing teams bring when they face us.
On the game system against Napoli (3-5-2, ed.)? It was an opportunity, I knew I would rotate to give minutes to those who had found less space.
I also saw some things that could be useful to us in the championship, why not. The thing I liked least in Naples is that we took little responsibility for playing.
I challenge anyone to be two goals down in 12 minutes and then down to 10 men at the start of the second half.
Napoli will fight for the Scudetto, we wanted to honor it, but it was also right to give space to players who could have found it earlier.
Some were influenced by emotion and took longer to get going.
If I only focus on the result, I would be making a mistake.
After the match against Napoli we talked about the match for 10 minutes, and we already focused on Südtirol, then working towards that.
Every match is a test, then we know who we had up front. For me, they are obstacles that we have to overcome, we worked to shake off everything that is post Napoli.
For us, the Coppa Italia was a parenthesis, but we knew that sooner or later we would close it. We are focused on the championship, and we know that there are expectations on us.
We must channel them as positive energy and not as a burden.
On individuals and the injured
Le Douaron is an important player for this team, and we believe in it.
I have no doubts about this, the reason for the 3-5-2 was also to enhance the characteristics of the Frenchman.
I wanted to see positive responses, and I found them in the match. Le Douaron is one of these, but he is not the only one.
Di Francesco is working to be there, I can’t say if he will be there, the evaluations will be made until the last day.
The same goes for Verre and Nedelcearu. This morning they were in the team, at the same time we will not take risks, and it is not appropriate to do so.
Today’s evaluations are quite positive, but tomorrows are needed to understand better.
Ranocchia is a player that I am not discovering and he is still young. He works, and last year he made an impact immediately after his arrival.
We must not put the burden on him, then I understand the expectations. But we must also give him the opportunity to make mistakes, I think he is very good like many others.
He will bring out the best in himself between now and the end of the championship, he also did positive things in Naples. He must put himself in the conditions to develop his qualities to the maximum.
Brunori did very well, he was the most dangerous of the team. He worked really well, also playing together with a partner.
So you have more central density and less width, it can be a solution on the fly or at the moment. We work above all on a game system, but we do not lose the possibility of alternating or changing.
Towards Südtirol
We are taking the match with Napoli as a rule, who are fighting to win and go to the Champions League.
We are in a different category. Furthermore, we have changed the game system, and we have worked on it.
Our goal was to do well against Napoli, but we know we are in Serie B and Napoli has nothing to do with our reality at the moment. It is more correct to talk about Cesena or Südtirol.
The team is working to not concede goals and to be more concrete in the offensive phase.
But no one in the team wins alone, so the team must work better collectively, and they are doing so. In the eleven, Sudtirol will be a more experienced team than us on the pitch, and they play at home with a clear identity.
We are not perfect at the moment, and we are building this identity.
Everyone looks at the standings, unfortunately we started with two defeats and to have continuity you have to lose little.
In the meantime we find continuity, and then we improve along that path. We could certainly have done something more, but let’s not draw lines now.
It wouldn’t help. Our goal is clear in our minds in wanting to improve compared to last season, and everyone has that ambition. We must also take advantage of missteps in the game, like the others did.
We respect Südtirol, they are a tough team and at home they have won the last games by winning in the final minutes.
They never give up, they attack quickly, they have physicality and experience. They create a lot, and they are a team to be respected.
At the same time, if we go in convinced that we can find the right spaces we can create something, we must be good at attacking them at the right moments, concluded Dionisi.
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