Hellas Verona coach Igor Tudor felt his men ‘deserved’ the 2-1 win over Empoli. ‘I saw a great desire. We pushed harder’.
The coach has managed to turn things around at the Bentegodi and the home side showed aggression in the 90 minutes against Aurelio Andreazzoli’s men.
The visitors’ coach said the ‘favourable deflection’ of Adrien Tameze’s late goal was the only thing that separated the two sides on Monday, but Tudor sees it differently.
“Verona won with their strength, with their talents,” he said at a press conference after the match. “With character, physical preparation, the quality of the individuals.
“It was a good match. In the end we deserved it because we created more. We restarted with a bit of carelessness, then there was the desire from both sides to score, and in the last 10 minutes we pushed harder.”
Verona have 19 points from 13 games and are only two behind Lazio, Juventus and Fiorentina in the table.
Tudor doesn’t want to look too far ahead and stressed the Gialloblu must continue to take one game at a time.
“Let’s see game after game,” he said. “I don’t want to get unbalanced. The lads are doing really well, but you won’t hear anything sensational from me.
“There’s the target to reach safety and on Saturday we have another battle.”