Torino coach Marco Giampaolo said the Granata are ready for some ‘serious fun’ against Spezia on Saturday. ‘It’s a very important match’.
After the Coppa Italia exit against Milan, the Granata are back in Serie A action tomorrow and Giampaolo knows his men must risk something to beat the newly promoted side.
“If the team faced the opponent with short arms and anxieties, it’s not football,” Giampaolo said at a press conference. “Then you need to have another job.
Torino coach Marco Giampaolo said the Granata are ready for some ‘serious fun’ against Spezia on Saturday. ‘It’s a very important match’.
After the Coppa Italia exit against Milan, the Granata are back in Serie A action tomorrow and Giampaolo knows his men must risk something to beat the newly promoted side.
“If the team faced the opponent with short arms and anxieties, it’s not football,” Giampaolo said at a press conference. “Then you need to have another job.
“Football is serious fun, there are no good intentions, you must be positive and proactive. You must risk something to win and look forward.
“If we always look back, we are dead.”
The Granata coach expects a difficult match against a ‘carefree and light’ Spezia.
“A team that plays football, carefree and light,” he said. “They have fun, it’s a recognisable team.
“They play with little cognitive load; we have to prepare well.
“It’s a very important match, we’ll have to recover after the tour de force.”
But Giampaolo said Torino will arrive for the weekend in good shape, despite having played 120 minutes against his former club this week.
“In the days after the Cup, we dedicated ourselves to the recovery,” he revealed. “Today, we did a few small things and then found compromise between recovery and preparation for the match.
“But we arrive well."