Perugia - SPAL, coach Colucci's pre-match conference

After finishing the eve's refinement, coach Leonardo Colucci reached the press room of the "G.B. Fabbri" Sports Center for the pre Perugia - SPAL conference, a match valid for the 22nd day of the Serie C NOW 2023/2024 Championship.

"The team is growing, is confident and is doing better and better. Perugia is a strong team and, as always, we face this match with the utmost concentration and respect. We have a chance to get a result and we go there with great desire because there are no easy matches, beyond the opponent in front of us."

"It is changing the fact that, as I have said in previous conferences, this team is starting to be such: on the field it always plays the game and does so even in times of difficulty, so it is a team that has learned to suffer and is recognizable in both possession and non-possession. There is great confidence, important players have arrived who have increased this group's confidence even more, and this team still has great room for improvement."

"Tomorrow we need to play a game in the wake of those played lately. We need a shrewd performance, because Perugia is a team you must not lend your side to, otherwise they can hurt you. We have to be good at not untie ourselves, always keeping the team short to be able to hit them, and at that moment we have to have the awareness to hurt. I hope it will be a good game and that SPAL will come out on top."

"I am happy with the way the director and the club have moved, because players have arrived with different characteristics from those already on this team. Zilli has completely different characteristics from those of Antenucci or Rabbi, he is a structural player to whom you can play ball on; while Büchel is an all-round midfielder who can play play, halfback or three-quarter and already in training he is giving us a big hand, because he allows those next to him to grow and improve."

"Is it possible to see Büchel and Zilli on the field tomorrow? We'll see, Massimo has had two training sessions with us while Marcel wants to rock the world to make up for lost time in the last few months. He is a player who has always trained individually, but the game rhythm is different from the training sessions and as a staff we have to take that into account. However, Marcel is a player who can give us a big hand and, if he won't be from the start, he will be in the running game."

"The physical and mental aspects are like two wheels of a wagon moving simultaneously, so if mentally through the result and a few plays you mature great self-esteem, then you also increase the physical discourse. For the past month and a half we have also been training at full strength with the "typical week," and the fruits of certain work you don't reap right away, but you get them as time goes by."

"Alfonso already before the game against Cesena had some small problems, he gritted his teeth and took the field: it was not easy to do so in a complicated game like last Sunday, which is why I thanked him in the post-match conference and for tomorrow's away match he is regularly among the summoned players. Dalmonte has had four practices with the team, he is doing well and he comes on the bench because he can be a useful player for the cause. Being his first week regularly in the group there is the aspect of best management to take into account, but he is an important player that we are recovering after a long absence, in which however those who replaced him always gave their best."