The house by the sea, the stopwatch as an amulet, Mazzarri tells himself: "I thought it was easier"
However, the coach sees signs of growth and is confident for the rest of the championship. Sunday at San Siro against Inter: "We must go with courage"
In Cagliari everything is fine: "An important and stimulating square, it represents an entire Region, it has won the Scudetto and it is Gigi Riva's team". Sardinia, "Region that has always fascinated me, I love the sea". And Cagliari itself, “an international city that I found has changed a lot compared to how I knew it”.
The only thing wrong is his Cagliari. Walter Mazzarri talks about himself in “Cagliari live”, to Radiolina's microphones, and talks about a very difficult season so far: “This ranking position does not belong to Cagliari”, he says.
The rossoblù coach admits: "I thought it was easier, I was convinced that some games would have been better", and mentions Salernitana and Venezia, two victories fading, and Rome, "a match in which we would have deserved a draw". The only really negative matches for Mazzarri were those against Empoli and Fiorentina.
Difficult moment, but "the team is growing, it is starting to give signals that I like them". The regret is the difficulty in coaching the team: “I always want to start from the beginning, I like to give the team physiognomy and automatisms, when you get to the race it is difficult because there are so many matches one after the other. But now something is being seen, even if there is still a lot to improve. In the defensive phase, when we lower ourselves we concede too much, and there are moments in the matches in which we miss too many passes ”.
For the coach, "the returns of Dalbert and Keita are very important", and then "many other players are growing".
The goal now is “to get the most out of these three games, then in January we hope to recover someone and the club will operate on the market. But I am confident and I also believe in the growth of these players ”.
It starts from San Siro: “Inter are strong, in stratospheric form, but I am confident because if we go on the pitch with the pride of the last few matches and the organization we have assimilated, we can also achieve an important result. These matches are faced with courage, trying to express our game and frighten them, engaging them in their defensive phase ".
Favorite form is 3-4-2-1, and on the possibility of fielding Keita, Pavoletti and Joao Pedro together, Mazzarri explains: "Football is balance, when I put all three together against Salernitana the boys looked at me because in midfield we were lowered, so I had to take one out. At the moment we can't afford it, then sometimes we can try it during the game. With Torino we were putting them on the ropes, I put Pereiro to win and the result is that we created less, they had two scoring. We need to reflect on these things ".
Some curiosities, that stopwatch that he always wears on the bench like an amulet: “I was famous for this, if you remember when I was in other teams we often won in the last minutes, we never gave up. And the stopwatch was a symbol because we always have to try, up to 97 'and beyond. I look at the minutes because as long as there is life there is hope and we must try them all ”. This year is not going very well from this point of view, "it's going the other way around, it's not doing well".
In Cagliari Mazzarri took a house by the sea, at the end of the Poetto: “The sea is my obsession, I have a house with access to the beach. But I am in Asseminello from morning to evening, I hope in March to be in a good ranking situation to have a day to dedicate to a bathroom ".
(Unioneonline / L)
