Albert Riera: "Ready to challenge Fiorentina with courage and strategy"

Albert Riera believes in it. He swore to make life difficult for Fiorentina since the post-match last Thursday. "When I prepared for this match or the first leg I thought we had nothing to lose, but only to win. It's a bit like when you go for a coffee with the first girl, you have butterflies in your stomach. Now we know each other, before they didn't know our capabilities, it will be a balanced game that we will play face to face, without fear. The game must be played, and the key will be to be perfect when we don't have the ball."

Riera also has clear ideas about Fiorentina. "If we put our plan into action and make them feel uncomfortable with the ball, we can silence the stadium, with personality and possession. The key will be our reaction when we lose the ball, if Fiorentina were to score first we must not be afraid. We must score, that's for sure, but ninety minutes are long and must be played very intelligently. The way you approach the game counts, there are moments when we will suffer and others less so. It doesn't matter if we win or lose, we must play as always, always thinking of being at 0-0".

Together with the coach, the midfielder also presented the match in the press conference Mark Zabukovnik. "If someone had told us in July that we would have reached the quarter-finals Conference, we wouldn't have believed him. We know we have a very difficult match ahead of us but I don't see why we can't win. You can lose against an opponent like Fiorentina, because it's strong, but we already demonstrated our value in the first leg".

Alessandro Latini