Venice, Pohjanpalo: “We must not be discouraged. We are focused on salvation”
Venice striker Joel Pohjanpalo spoke to the club’s official channels in view of the match against Cittadella, a direct clash for salvation, analyzing the team’s difficult moment: “Last week’s defeat certainly disappointed us, we’re angry at the right point, any professional would be angry afterwards a negative result. The priority at the moment is to learn from the mistakes made, working on the mental aspect: don’t get discouraged and react in the next matches, which will be important. Saturday we lacked our wits and created few chances against a team that has closed immediately, defending very well. In these situations, even one misstep, if capitalized on by the opponents, leads you to defeat, and that is exactly what happened to us. In many ways, Südtirol and Cittadella are similar, they are defensive teams , which focus on physicality, against which we need to be concrete. The Citadel, in particular, finds its strength in set pieces and co rner, by which we must not be surprised. – concludes the Finn as stated on the website – Serie B, on the other hand, is an extremely competitive championship precisely because it is based on solid defences, with a lot of tactics and few goals scored: for a striker, such an approach is both challenge as much as a learning opportunity. We are aware of the importance of the next matches, with a view to salvation, but we want to focus on every single match and opponent, one at a time. We have to think about the result match by match if we want to reach our goal.”