Venezia-Fiorentina, Palladino: "First goal to be cancelled. Let's think about doing well in the last two games"

Venice, 12 May 2025 - débâcle in the lagoon against Venezia is preferably used for Fiorentina, which almost definitively says goodbye to the possibility of reaching European competitions next season.

Without Kean and Gudmundsson, Palladino's team also appears tired from a mental point of view after the defeat against Betis in the Conference League. This is the analysis of Raphael Palladino, which starts from an arbitration dispute. “I saw it again, there was a handball on the first goal, it should have been canceled. From the bench our feeling was already this, there is disappointment. Because these episodes also direct the matches, we accept it but it is a fairly serious error that decided a goal. Beyond this however, things are also going badly for us: after the 1-0 we hit the inside of the post and on the same action we conceded the second goal. There is really a lot of disappointment, the boys gave everything and I can't reproach the team for anything. Now there are two games left, we must not give up and play them in the right way".

How much did Thursday's match against Betis weigh tonight? "Playing every three days makes you lose mental energy. In these days I tried to make them recover because Thursday was a beating, and we even succeeded: we played the game, but Venezia was faster than us in transition. My boys gave it their all, the other day I got angry with the substitutes but today they gave it their all. Football is like that, I'm always positive but you also have to accept the verdict and move on".

Now how do you approach the next two games with Bologna and Udinese? You have just renewed your contract... "In the meantime we have to see if we will redo the cups, because there are two games left and there could be other missteps. Everything is still open, I invite everyone to play two games at 100%, then we will see the verdict at the end. My contract? I am not tied to money, I love this job and I do it with love and pride, I have given everything this year and it is not the two years of the contract that leave me calm. It is the job that leaves me calm, I will always give my best and the goal is to get into the cups, but unfortunately you don't always get the things you deserve, sometimes you have to accept different verdicts".

Alessandro Latini