Genoa, Alberto Gilardino warns against Empoli

Genoa, Alberto Gilardino warns against Empoli'Empoli

Desire for redemption for Alberto Gilardino&#39s Genoa, which for tomorrow&#39s match against Empoli rediscovers Mateo Retegui and could give the thirty thousand expected at the Ferraris an offensive pair composed by the Argentine Italo and Junior Messias.

"Mateo (Retegui) has è trained three days with the team, he is not yet one hundred percent and will make evaluations today. He has great desire and if the conditions are there he will be on the field from the first minute. Messias like Mateo does not è one hundred percent. But if both give me personal guarantees in playing from the first minute they will both be in the match-said Gilardino. We need the personality, quality and flair of these players".

It è was not an easy week for the coach after the Stirpe defeat came in the final. Gilardino è ended up in the crosshairs of criticism for changes that would have destabilized the team before conceding the goal. "Answer? isolation and work, the only thing certain è that. We have to work and be focused on the goal, which è is very clear in my head and in the heads of the boys. We know that we have to improve but also that we have quality. From criticism and negative moments we can grow and make assessments, I always put my face on it. I know that tomorrow there will be a desire to prove once again that Genoa is there'è".

Facing them is a third-last but difficult Empoli. "It's a fearsome team and coached very well. It won in Florence and Naples. We will have to be very careful especially on their restarts – stressed the Rossobl&ugrave coach; – they have very good players in the narrow. On our part we will serve; maximum determination, maximum spirit of sacrifice and maximum humility; but with great awareness of our strengths".