Fiorentina knockout with Como: Raffaele Palladino absolves Nicolò Zaniolo
After a day to forget, concentration goes on the new face.
Fiorentina defeated at home by Como, with a chance to overtake eternal rivals Juventus in the standings slipping away. And at the end of the ugly match at the Franchi inevitably part of the talk goes to the few goal chances created by the Viola. But Raffaele Palladino first and foremost wanted to absolve newly acquired Nicolò Zaniolo of too many responsibilities.
In the post-match press conference, in fact, Palladino è dwelt on the absence of a natural replacement for Moise Kean just weeks before the conclusion of the January soccer market. "Moise è our bomber, but if he had scored Zaniolo we would make other speeches – stressed the coach of Fiorentina -. Football forò è is made this way, and we know it well".
Palladino, in other words, promotes with flying colors the'former Atalanta striker despite being left out: "For me Zaniolo played a good game. In that position è adapted, but I asked him to do a certain type of work and he did it well. Then è Beltran came in, and he, too, did not disfigure at all".
Expanding on Fiorentina's match, this is Palladino's analysis: "We had also started well, but we were not able to unlock the game. Then, also because of too much desire to score, we stretched ourselves. We should have kept more compactness. But when you lose you should not make dramas, just as è it is wrong to get too excited after a victory. Bad days happen, and I prefer not to look too much at the standings".
