“Against Juve we need the perfect match”
VENICE – Who better than Cristian Molinaro to far understand al Venice how hard it can be to face the Juventus. The orange-black full-back wore the Old Lady’s shirt for three years, so he and his teammates are perfectly careful in the next round of the championship: “There Juventus is a team of champions – underlines the former Juventus full-back to the official channels of the Venice – which can be decisive at any time, so it goes without saying that it will be a complicated game. The sure thing is that we are working to the best of our ability to face it in the best possible way. We will need a perfect, courageous match, but I believe in this group and its qualities. We are following a path that has, and will probably have in the future too, some obstacles to face before we can reach our goal. But we have a group that has the strength to overcome them. Football gave me a dream, and personally it is still a great emotion to take the field even at this moment in my career. There Juve was the team I came to when I was just a kid after my first experience in A league with the Siena, and it is in Turin, in the midst of all those champions, that I grew up not only as a generator, but also as a man. I will be glad to shake hands with Chiellini, who was a partner of mine and who for me represents the greatest central defensive that football has known in the last fifteen years“.
“The blow with Verona will serve as a lesson”
The great desire for redemption of the lagoons could be the extra weapon available to the Venice to play a race above expectations. The comeback suffered by Verona it was not digested by anyone in the orange-green environment: “The match – explains Molinaro – had two faces: the first saw a Venice dominant, in which we have imposed our game. In the first half there was a manifestation of everything the coach asks of us and tries to convey to us. The second, on the other hand, showed the shortcomings of a team that lacks experience. We are in fact a formation full of quality but very young, and this factor means that at times we are lacking precisely in terms of experience in certain situations. My fear was that the group would not react properly, but the guys were immediately ready to leave again, and above all willing to do it: this is the most important thing, because it shows that we are a group with character. The blow we took against the Verona it must absolutely serve us to rectify our mistakes and stop committing them, especially in managing the result“.