Fabio Grosso grooms his Sassuolo: "We hurt ourselves"

Sassuolo coach Fabio Grosso spoke bitterly to Sky after his team’s defeat against Torino: “In the first half there was little rhythm; we could not win the field and combine on the outside or attack spaces as we know how to do. In the second half we entered better, we were inside the match and were conceding little, but with 25 minutes to go, on an offensive action in our favor, we conceded a restart. Despite the rebound, we made a fatal mistake”.

“From there the game became uphill: we tried with generosity and energy, but the qualities of the opponent did not allow us to take it back. Doig’s entrance? When you don’t enter the game well and you can’t play the way you know, opponents of this level have the means to put you in serious difficulty. Psychologically we will work to regain confidence, knowing that the growth path of young people also passes through these setbacks”, explained the Emilians’coach.

“We let the game go because of a naivety on our part and we did not fully express what is in our chords – reiterated Grosso -. I hope that matches like these will serve us as experience. In the first half we were under-run, little rhythm in the game, we failed to attack the spaces as we know how to do and we did not express our potential and quality. In the second half we were in the game, we played a game but we commit a naivety that cost us dearly despite the great willingness of the boys, too bad we were not able to do more. We keep this bitterness and try to improve for the future”.

These are the words of Cristian Volpato: “In my opinion we played a good game especially in the second half, we are sorry because it was decided by a penalty kick. In the beginning we were a bit under pace but we stayed in the game, in the second half we upped the tempo, unfortunately we missed the goal”.

“We take the field with the goal of winning every game, we regret this up-and-down trend, but now we have to look to the next one. The coach has given us an identity of play and we have a strong team, with many quality players, he gave me courage, he was able to wait for me and gave me advice” these are the words reported by Sassuolo’s official website.