Gian Piero Gasperini, Atalanta coach, does not trust the losses of Real Madrid ahead of the first leg of the round of 16 of the Champions. “Despite the casualties, and precisely because of them, we will find a more concentrated team, which is going to go full,” warned the Italian coach, also aware of the mystique of the white team in this competition. “Madrid is transformed in the Champions League, we already saw it in Milan against Inter, where they played with great quality and personality. It is true that tomorrow they will be missing several champions, but now they are more solid and more humble as they have shown in The league“He added Gasperini, which was full of praise for Zinedine Zidane.
“Yes Zidane If he played tomorrow he would be very worried but luckily he will be on the bench ”, joked the Atalanta team. “As a player I saw him do incredible things, he does not admit of comparison. When he played in the Juve I was a coach of Primavera and when I finished my training I went to see the elders and freaked out with Zidane, he did wonderful things ”, he recalls Gasperini, who also values his facet as a technician. “As a coach, he has continued to win important games, titles … He has confirmed that he has football in his DNA and that he is a great player in this sport,” said his counterpart, who appealed to try to maintain his identity to put him in trouble. Madrid.
“We have never faced them, it is our most important match due to the prestige of Madrid. From these games against very strong teams we come out strengthened and enriched. We have to be ambitious, maintaining the identity that has brought us here. We are not going to change our way of playing but we have to take the rival into account, only when we play against them can we interpret what the game needs ”, he analyzed Gasperini, who still sees the favorite Madrid to pass the tie.
“The Madrid It's a favorite, but we have to do our thing. We want to interpret their game and see how we react to such strong teams. We are ambitious, we will give everything and we will have to play beyond our possibilities ”, warned the Italian coach.
“We have been somewhat pushy on occasion. You always want to reap the best results, but we don't have to put more pressure on ourselves, sometimes that has gone wrong for us and we have paid for it. We must be aware of our strengths but we are not going to think that we are the best as has been said because it is not true ”, he settled Gasperini, which announced that it has all its players available except for Hateborer.