Palermo Sampdoria, Dionisi Conference, 14th Serie B

Palermo returns to the field after the break for the national teams and resumes its journey in Serie B with the home match against Sampdoria.

Alessio Dionisi, coach of the Sicilians, analyzed the moment of the rosanero, speaking at a press conference on the eve of the match.

Palermo & Brunori?

In the last two weeks, he is the player I have spoken to most. I usually speak with the players, but with him in these days we have spoken several times.

I do not deny that in the last few days I have seen him more positive and this makes me happy. He is an important resource for this team.

As I said to him and to everyone, it is not what you have done that counts but what you want to do, and it comes from what you do every day.

Dionisi then added something more about the little use of the Palermo captain: Technical choices, and that’s it. Zero problems with Brunori.

Technical choices based on what I see and what I have seen. We want and can do more, but I have to consider who pushes in training.

I see positive signs from everyone.

We have been training for eleven consecutive days, the boys wanted to train on Sunday too and this was a good sign.

The team knows what they want, and we have to bring it back to the pitch. We are lucky to be playing at home, and we will have many fans on our side, we have to feed their passion to push us from the first to the last minute.

On the concretization I say that it is not spirit, but the qualities that we have, then the most important part is the finishing. We have players who have been finalized and must be in this team.

We have created more than we have achieved, we must continue to work like this. Paradoxically, we must be less tense in the last twenty meters.

The result is the one dictated by the spirit, even before the game or the tactics. Team spirit is very significant, especially in this category.

Some choices are based on this: trying to improve the spirit. In these two weeks I have seen the spirit grow.

Fabio Lucioni’s farewell?

It was a corporate decision, so I say this, and I won’t add anything else.

As for the game system, talking about 4-3-3 I’m not saying it’s wrong but the occupation of space with the ball is different from the game system without the ball.

It depends on the players and the opponents, we work more on the occupation of space to try to go to the qualities of the offensive players and not only that we have.

We are working similarly to how we started, but not in the same way. Then the result doesn’t prove us right. If we continue like this, the standings will improve starting tomorrow.

On the conditions of the rosanero players:

Baniya is fine, he trained all week with the team. We have the last training session today, and we hope not to lose anyone. I have two ballots behind me, one in the middle and two in front”.

The club is certainly close to us. The CEO also came to the training sessions, who we weren’t used to seeing on the pitch.

Transfer market? For me, we have everything. Di Lucioni was dragging on a bit, and the club is convinced they made the right choice for the team. There is definitely a reason.