{"id":22108,"date":"2026-01-30T14:08:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T13:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cagliaricalcio.com\/news\/press-room-pisacane-presents-the-match-against-hellas-verona\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T14:14:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T13:14:41","slug":"press-room-pisacane-presents-the-match-against-hellas-verona","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/cagliaricalcio.com\/en\/news\/press-room-pisacane-presents-the-match-against-hellas-verona\/","title":{"rendered":"PRESS ROOM | Pisacane presents the match against Hellas Verona"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Cagliari coach Fabio Pisacane held a pre-match press conference, meeting with the media in the press room at the Crai Sport Center in Assemini. His remarks are below.  <\/p>\n\n<p><strong>THE MATCH AGAINST VERONA<br\/><\/strong>This week, I&#8217;ve seen a level of focus, a desire to improve, and a clear understanding. A tough match is coming up, and the team is on edge: this will be a real head-to-head match. The team is confident in what they need to do. I&#8217;m focused on what we&#8217;re doing and on the path forward. I don&#8217;t want to fuel any controversy with accusations or alleged accusations regarding unsportsmanlike conduct, time-wasting, and effective play. When we talk about the path forward, it&#8217;s because there&#8217;s a concept behind it that needs to be carried forward. When I arrived, the team worked differently; today, we&#8217;re at a point in the season where our methodology is showing, and it&#8217;s a great satisfaction for the staff. The recent victories? We know what we did to get them, but now we&#8217;re facing a wounded team that will want to show signs of vitality. It will be a match full of second chances and duels. We need to think as if we&#8217;d only gotten one point in the last two matches.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>POSSIBLE CHOICES<\/strong><br\/>&#8220;Whoever played and performed well has an advantage. Chances are, tomorrow we&#8217;ll see the same starting eleven as against Juventus and Fiorentina. I always talk about the objective; today we&#8217;re working to improve our position in the standings even further. Serie A is tough and full of surprises from one day to the next. We must keep pushing. Tomorrow is truly a final: I expect the entire Cagliari side to push. Their push is crucial; we&#8217;ll have to be a united front.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>CONTROVERSIES AND COMPLIMENTS<br\/><\/strong>No one likes to lose, and everyone expresses their feelings as they wish. I don&#8217;t like to stir up controversy, so I shy away from it when people look for non-technical reasons to explain a result. I prefer to focus on the pitch, on the things we can achieve with hard work, on the path we&#8217;re on. That&#8217;s why I reiterated that I don&#8217;t want to talk about it. Fabregas is doing well; many thought Como was built for that position in the table, but that&#8217;s not the case. He&#8217;s winning and making it look easy. I&#8217;m happy with his words about me, but I won&#8217;t be tempted by compliments: the numbers are counted at the end, and I want to bring home results, not just compliments.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>ESPOSITO AND ALBARRAC\u00ccN<\/strong><br\/>&#8220;In Florence, when we weren&#8217;t in possession, Esposito worked on Fagioli because we thought that strategy could pay off, and it did. We have predefined positions in possession. Sebastiano is talented; he needs movement and space, but it depends on how the opponents approach you. We&#8217;ve been following Albarrac\u00edn; he has quality and can see the goal. He&#8217;s been called up, and we hope he can play for the match, even though his transfer hasn&#8217;t arrived yet.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>INDIVIDUALS<\/strong><br\/>&#8220;Prati has quality and has had opportunities. In football, it&#8217;s the moments that count, not the labels. I hope he can demonstrate his worth in the coming months, and this isn&#8217;t the time to preemptively judge his experience in Cagliari. <strong>Dossena and Raterink<\/strong>? Alberto is fueling our engine with every passing day; he can give us a big hand, and I hope to see him in action soon. Like Albarrac\u00edn, we&#8217;ve also been following Raterink: he has quality, but I was struck by the boy&#8217;s hunger. He always wants to improve, and he needs to work on certain aspects. As with others, we&#8217;ll need to go slowly and in the right direction, with patience and hard work. <strong>Kilicsoy<\/strong>, like <strong>Palestra<\/strong>, has untapped potential. He&#8217;s 20 years old and has only been playing in Italy for a few months: he shone in Turkey, but Italian football is complicated. Now he&#8217;s found chemistry with his teammates, but every Sunday is a question mark. It&#8217;s a pleasure to watch him in training. We&#8217;re keeping an eye on the transfer market: we&#8217;ve signed two players, and the club has also made other prospective deals, such as Gallea and Di Paolo. We&#8217;re not We will be caught unprepared, we will see if there will be the possibility of adding another piece.\u201d         <\/p>\n\n<p><strong>THE MIDFIELD<\/strong><br\/>&#8220;I now have a good selection to explore in that department. We&#8217;ve also seen Deiola play in Gaetano&#8217;s position, and Mazzitelli can also fill that role. With Folorunsho and Deiola back, we&#8217;ll have other options, and I hope everyone is fit from here on out. 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