COVERCIANO – From the Panchina d’Oro
awards being held today in Coverciano, Andrea Stramaccioni spoke to Sky Sport Italia about yesterday’s
game. "I still haven’t had the chance to
analyse this collapse with my players. Today is another day, and the Inter we saw yesterday wasn’t the
real one. The future? Now we have two important
challenges coming up and we need to put yesterday’s match behind us. I’ve never
backed down. I think I made a mistake in evaluating my players’ energies. We knew
that the Europa League would be an exhausting competition, but
we didn’t think we would have paid for it to such an extent. I made a mistake
in thinking we could utilise the same players over these three games."
"My future is Inter’s future. We’re always being judged, and what matters most is immediately turning things around. The derby could be just the right chance to do it. We don’t want to underestimate the Europa League, because what just happened to us in the league also came about for the way we approached this European competition. The president is angry and regretful as we all are, and rightly so. Our thoughts are on getting a result in Romania and winning the derby," the coach continued. Then finally, on Mateo Kovacic: "He was one of the most fatigued players. He’s very important for us and very important for our future as well."
