Gian Piero Gasperini sticks to episodes. And he berates Lookman
Gian Piero Gasperini sticks to episodes
Gian Piero Gasperini commented on the defeat to Club Brugge to the microphones of Sky Sport, which è cost Dea the elimination from the Champions League: "It was two quite strange matches, Champions è also the competition of episodes, even tonight we got a goal after a few seconds, we had chances and they instead took full advantage. The team played with dignity, except for Toloi's episode (the red for reaction). It's an excessive result, we also missed a penalty and created many chances".
"Lookman on the bench? He had not been training, he was struggling to kick until a few days ago, you have to know things if not; è too easy to judge. I would say that physically we held, of course the missed penalty slowed down the enthusiasm, from the athletic aspect the team is fine, the problem è that they had some very fast players and we suffered a bit, they made the most of their chances we certainly could have done better".
He then chastised Lookman himself for kicking the penalty: "He kicks them very badly, even in training he has a really low scoring percentage, there were Retegui and De Ketelaere who could have shot them but on the wave of euphoria from the goal he just scored he wanted to take the ball himself. A gesture that I did not è like".
In the final of the first half, triple resounding chance for Dea before the Belgian’s trio: "The first half could have ended 1-2 and è ended 0-3, in Champions League the episodes change a lot, I think we in the two matches we had more chances even if they played two very good games but we give credit to Bruges. The elimination is there".
"Undoubtedly we had an extraordinary period thanks to Retegui's goals, thanks to Charles and Lookman, in the last month and a half we had some problems, the injury to Ademola and some ups and downs of Retegui and De Ketelaere but it can'be normal. We have some people out, especially up front, because the attack then gives value to the performance. Now we are out of the Champions, recovering some injuries this team è destined to make a good end of the season" concluded Gasperini.
