Gian Piero Gasperini sees the glass as half full

Gasperini’s words

Gian Piero Gasperini spoke to Sky Sport immediately after the Champions League match drawn at the Gewiss Stadium against Atalanta: "Regret for Retegui’s penalty? Of course, the penalty è always a great chance even if we were still missing so much. Going ahead 1-0 would have been important. We have to be happy with the performance, a level performance against a great team. Reviewing also on the rebound è also remained comfortable to score. Raya made an outstanding save but sorry for Retegui, who had a great game maybe the best since è here. She played with personality è and the goal would have been a nice reward”.

"That è our spirit, which is not è not defending. The defensive work of the forwards we hardly had it in the last few games. If with the forwards we have this defensive availability we can also have a few more forwards on the field and it also improves our chance to score. In the final it seems to me that they wanted to settle, maybe they were fatigued. It was not easy to overcome them and we è lacked the play to win the game. We had a little bit of difficulty on the loose balls in these games. È this is the difficulty we had, an Achilles heel of this beginning of the season. The defensive phase però never è been so bad overall.”

Comment on two individuals: "Ederson in the second half è came out even more than in the first and with the strength that distinguishes him. We were facilitated by the tension of the attackers but he and De Roon in the middle of the field were winning in duels and in the quality of the game. In the game from behind maybe we can do something better but I am satisfied. In recent years we have grown by also playing these kinds of games”.