Spal in Pesaro: Mister Baldini aims to improve the standings and avoid last place

Mister Baldini, on Monday the Spal will try to Pesaro to improve their situation standings in optics play-out and to avoid the last position?

"Yes, considering that in the last few games Spal has collected less than it deserved on the pitch. Let's try to match the performances made in the last few games, improve in front of goal, where you need to be more aggressive, and play to win. This week we unfortunately had some problems, Mignanelli is more serious than we thought and we won't have him available, Arena and Rao will not be there due to suspension and we lost Bassoli due to a muscle injury. In addition, we also had some victims of the virus that is going around".

Will he therefore have to change something in the tactical set-up that will take to the field?

"There can be different solutions to deal with the absences. If we want to maintain what we have seen so far, we need to change something and one solution could be to bring Nador back, or play with four or put Calapai as a wing-back. It's up to me to figure out which is the best choice. In front of the defense, Nador and Awua provided a good filter and certainty in the non-possession phase... I'll have to make some evaluations".

Are you really not making any play-off placement hypotheses or calculations with only two games left in the regular season?

"I could swear, I'm totally focused on the moment, not even on the match, but on every single training session. Two days before the match I then start thinking about dead balls, opponents, I don't want to waste energy making calculations about ourselves or the others. Every Sunday can change a lot in terms of positions".

What kind of race will it be in Pesaro?

"It can be misleading that in terms of results Vis is a bit down compared to the first half of the season, in which they did great things. Stellone and I are friends, we played together in Genoa, in Naples, we won championships together, we have an excellent relationship. They had an important first half of the season if we consider their previous season, they have played good games recently too, despite being unlucky. Vis is an aggressive and physical team, they work a lot on second balls and we will have to be good there. We won't have an easy match ahead of us".

Have you tried to work specifically to make offensive attempts more profitable? "What was previously my almost total concentration on the non-possession phase has now moved to building the game, to get our forwards to shoot at goal. The forwards, Molina, Antenucci, Parigini, also stopped during the last training session for an additional phase of shots at goal. We are working hard on it".

Paghera back at our disposal? "He's back with us one hundred percent. I have his full availability."

Will it be one of El Kaddouri, Radrezza or Paghera in the centre?

"El Kaddouri was improving, even though he was hit by the virus this week. Paghera is back and Radrezza is fine. It is logical that we are talking about very different characteristics. Having Nador and Awua in midfield or Radrezza and Parigini is completely different. We had found the right balance in the non-possession phase, we must maintain it even if we have some absences".

Beatrice Bergamini