DIFFICULT MATCH AGAINST A PHYSICAL TEAM IN ALL DEPARTMENTS

On the eve of the Cesena - Brescia match, Mister Michele Mignani held his pre-match press conference at Orogel Stadium - Dino Manuzzi. 

"It is clear that all of us work to give continuity of results and we would never want to interrupt them, however, then you have to make many considerations and deepen performance evaluations and, in my opinion, the last two were completely different performances. In Pisa we didn't do the performance we expected, while with Sampdoria there was a performance peppered with mistakes that then sanctioned the final result."

"We must, however, remain lucid and balanced, because this team has embarked on a path that was giving positive signs and to think that now we have entered a difficult situation, after a game and a half done badly, I believe that it does not help us. The league is long and we all know that in the course of a season there can be different moments, to be faced in different ways, but we must never lose the enthusiasm and the awareness that we have performed against anyone and we would miss anything not to arrive hungry to tomorrow's game against Brescia."

"The numbers say that ours is a team that creates and from the waist up, excluding the Pisa game, has always put opponents in trouble. We are the third best attack in the league, so it means we are working well in that aspect, but we need to improve many other things, especially in terms of goals conceded."

"We have to change the attitude and the predisposition not to passively suffer defensive situations, this is the first work on which we tried to get into the players' heads. Then we also worked on different situations to try to be stronger in opposing the opponent." 

"Brescia is a strong team in individuals and collectively with a good and experienced coach. They come from a losing game, but they played against Sassuolo, which is putting everyone under a bit at the moment, so I think that, like us, they will have recharged and will come here to try to play their game. It's a physical team in all departments and it's a difficult match, but so are all of them: we have to start with the assumption of being humble, knowing that on the pitch it takes sacrifice and that we have to keep the matches open until the end, because they can be won even at the last without conceding everything we conceded in the last challenge."

The full conference is available on Cesena FC's YouTube channel :