Cagliari, Claudio Ranieri: “We are at the final bend.”

Cagliari, Claudio Ranieri: "We are at the final bend"

These are the words of Cagliari coach Claudio Ranieri ahead of Saturday’s away match against Monza.

"There are ten games, we are at the final bend: horses are seen at the last straight. And we hope to have good horses in our engine. I said it at the end of the first round, I think salvation is reached at 36-37 points. Monza è a very good team, they have changed form compared to the first leg, but I saw in the match with Genoa a Monza in great form: they played well, suffered, but then they were also able to react".

" I have always said it since last year: è the public that has to push us and is pushing us. It is not è easy to find a fan base capable of waiting like the Cagliari fan base. We know that when we are focused and strong-willed we can have our say. But we also know that when we are not so; we can be dangerous for ourselves as happened in the ten minutes of distraction with Salernitana".

“After Lazio we perhaps reached the awareness that everyone has to do his own. Doing more ù leads, even for too much love, off course. Now every point è fundamental: we cannot afford drops in attention. My future? I still have a one-year contract and I am only thinking about Cagliari’s salvation. I’m fine, but I’m focused because I have to be lucid and cold in my choices and changes. Fundamental, with the five substitutions, is the'contribution of those outside".