D'AVERSA: “WE CAN’T UNDERESTIMATE OUR OPPONENTS
At the end of the final training session before the game, Parma's coach Roberto D’Aversa met with journalists at Collecchio to talk about tomorrow’s Coppa Italia game against Frosinone.
“We’ll certainly have to want to progress tomorrow, we can’t underestimate our opponents. We’ll have to be determined to make it through, with the ambition of playing a big game against Roma in the next round. I think that tomorrow will provide an opportunity for players who haven’t been involved as much to play, but I wouldn’t use the word turnover because the guys deserve to play based on the work they put in every week.
“We can’t think about chance, luck or misfortune. I congratulated the boys after the two home wins against Torino and Sassuolo, even if they were lucky it was because we were looking for the win. In these last two games we have to think about what we could have done better, how we could have avoided those situations where we threw away points late in the game. We have to be unhappy about how they went, and if we can win against Roma then we should be able to beat Milan too.
“My three years here? You know that I don’t like looking back at the past, but I’d like to thank everyone for their kind words in recent days. I’m not a fan of social media but I’d like to give a big thank you to everyone who has sent me personal messages of congratulations. I would never have thought that I could have achieved all of this three years ago and I couldn’t have done it without those around me. However this is not an end point, this should just be the start because we’ve still got a lot of room to grow. We can’t just be satisfied with what we’ve achieved, we have to try and do something new. In football the past counts for little; what matters is the present. Our current present is that tomorrow we face Frosinone, then we’ll turn our attention back to the league.
"Tomorrow will by no means be an easy game, the majority of their players have played in Serie A. They’re coming off the back of some positive results and we can’t afford to underestimate our opponents. We need to prove that we’re a better team and bring home a result, that’s always what you set out to do in football, regardless of your opponent. My biggest concern is how we approach this match."
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