Cagliari knocked out against Torino, Viola: «We'll get out of this». The goal? «Dedicated to Gigi Riva»

Nicolas Viola tried until the end, but was unable to avoid Cagliari's defeat, 1-2 at home against Torino .

The midfielder celebrated by forming the number 11 with his fingers, a gesture that needs no explanation: «I dedicate the goal to Gigi and the Riva family, even if it came in a defeat I wanted to pay homage to them», he underlines. «It was a very important week, with fluctuating emotions and a magical atmosphere in the stadium and all the people: we understood certain things, sorry for the defeat but the performance was there, his evaluation. We need to improve in some areas: in the first half we went behind, we are used to coming back from almost impossible matches but it can't always go in a certain way. Let's take these mistakes to heart, let's try to make them an extra weapon for next time: we need to grow, but the spirit and desire to win was there."

The goal. Viola reopened the match with a great goal in the 77th minute. «I knew that Rodríguez was man-marking me and by jumping him, perhaps with an oriented stop, I was able to free myself for the shot: the thing was already thought of before the throw-in, then it went well», his story. And he agrees with having started on the bench: «When these important matches are played it is normal for there to be tiredness, I am available to my teammates and Ranieri and when I am called into action I will try to give my best as I always have done» . Now for Viola the objective is to score points away from home, with the next match against Roma: «It hurts to lose at home and in front of our fans, where we had brought great joy the last few times. Salvation is a long discussion, we have to score points away from home. In my opinion we will get out of this very soon, I am convinced: we will work on our mistakes to try to score as many points as possible."