MILAN
– After the Ternana game, Inter Primavera coach Salvatore Cerrone spoke to Inter
Channel.
This is what he had to say:
"The
point is the only positive thing we can take from this game in light of the
play-offs. We started the game well, playing with a lot of intensity, but
failed to score. Had we scored the game would probably have been completely different.
But yet again I find myself talking about how we started a game well, looked
impressive as the game went on, but that we again found ourselves having to fight
back after conceding following the first goal attempt by the opposition. We didn’t
give them much at all and Ternana came here to play their own game. We failed
to take our goal chances, we failed to convert a penalty, but these things happen
even if they shouldn’t: we’re in the play-offs, and we can’t afford to make so
many mistakes there.
"We expected this type of game, but we now need to work on the positives, such
as the way we played during the first half hour of the first half and parts of
the second half. But if you fall behind and come under pressure, perhaps
even due to the heat, you lose some of your sharpness and everything then
becomes even more difficult.
"Penalty misses? I had to chuckle as yesterday I even started getting the
players to practice taking them... Lorenzo is also our first-choice penalty
taker. But you never know what is going to happen from a penalty, no matter who
takes it. Perhaps the player was tired. Our second choice penalty taker is Acampora,
we were awarded a second penalty and he took it. We have to start the play-off
game showing the same sort of intensity we did here. But today we tired and
started to look lethargic: if sides play that way in the play-offs they are
usually punished. Games like these also make you think and mature. There’s not long to go now.
"The next game against Chievo? It may even help us and give us that little
something we’re missing at the moment, the right temperament, the focus we have
to keep in mind in view of the play-off game on Wednesday."
