Sergio Conceição does not give up.
“We want to win, win, and win. Due to our own mistakes or those of others that we cannot control (the referees, ed.), we haven’t managed to, but we continue working to achieve results. My goal is to create the right spirit in the locker room: we have won a title, which may be devalued, but it remains a title nonetheless; we are still in the running for the Coppa Italia, and we have twelve league matches to earn as many points as possible. We will give 1,000% in every match, hoping not to concede absurd goals like 80% of those we have let in since Zagreb.”
Conceição spoke with less agitation compared to the night in Bologna when he had said he was ready to pack his bags if the club saw him as a problem rather than a solution.
Yesterday, Ibrahimović and Moncada were on the sidelines to follow training and encourage the team, as they had been on Friday as well. “I am available to work and, if I have time—just joking (smiling, ed.)—starting next week, I will begin studying a new formation (the 3-5-2?, ed.). In Italy, I have won both as a player and as a coach, at a Milan that is a historic club, once used to lifting Champions League trophies. But that was another era, with different players and a different environment… I know that the fans want to win no matter who takes the field, but it’s not always possible. Lazio? They are a strong team, and I have good memories from my time in the Biancocelesti, but I am determined to beat them.”
