“We have reached the final act, it is something that we hoped for and we believed we had our chances. A match that has an inexplicable value, we got there with our strength, with our ideas, this is the thing that makes me most proud. Tomorrow we will have to continue to do it with courage, the days of recovery are few, let’s see if there will be some changes initially, if someone needs a rest. But I see my boys focused and can’t wait to play a match like this.” These are the words of the Catanzaro coach, Alberto Aquilani, on the eve of the first leg play-off final scheduled within the friendly walls of the “Ceravolo” against Monza.
The journey and the battle of Palermo
The coach’s analysis starts from the “Barbera” battle against Palermo – where the Giallorossi were defeated 2-0 but capitalized on the clear 3-0 advantage from the first leg – to project onto the immediate match: “I don’t know how many teams after the 1-0 immediately in the cold would not have collapsed, the team had two scoring opportunities after the first half, they conceded almost nothing, then we all had the sensational opportunities to score. All of this in a warm stadium, a truly wonderful match.”
The recipe for the enterprise: courage and the public factor
The recipe for a new business does not exist, you just need to know that you will have to go beyond your limits. “To get through these two matches we have to do something extraordinary and to do it we have to be very concentrated, very attentive, we need to have courage, personality and then tomorrow we have a crowd that will certainly be for us, as it always has been, a twelfth man on the pitch. It’s something that none of us know if it can happen again, then when things happen that you don’t know if they can happen again you have to give everything and when you give everything you never lose.”