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Pagliuca : we go to Reggio Calabria to win.

Gianluca, after your first home defeat it should be very important to get imediately a good results at Reggio Calabria…
“Yes, it is important to come back from Reggio Calabria with some point, we'll try to win, but, looking at the ranking, even just a point would be good to us.”
The team of De Canio comes from a very bad match against Juventus; what kind of environment will you find in Calabria?
“Reggina will play against us an important match to stay in Serie A, so they will try all they can, crowd will be very hot and noisy. But if we'll play as we are able to do, we can get points against anyone.”
What kind of effect will the five goals allowed against Juventus have on Reggina players?
“Well, a defeat like that one could be read in two different ways: on one side they want to recover as asson as possible, and no the other side, if they will do some mistake in the first 15 minutes, they could get very serious problems. In this case, their excitement would be our advantage.”
Let's go back to the match against Milan: what are your impressions about the team of Ancelotti?
“They're surely the most organized and complete group that we ever faced till now. They have very good individualities and great schemes.”
But Bologna did play well during all the match...
“And this one is the big regret, we lost the match because of an unlucky rebound and because of the ability of Shevchenko, who was great to cover the ball from the comeback of Colucci and to shoot in the high corner of the goal.”
No chance to save.
“If I had had the chance to get it, the strenght of that shot would have thrown me in the net with the ball…”
During the match it even seemed that Milan was almost afraid of Bologna…
“Yes, they were, even if they're a great team. It has been shown from the line-up of Ancelotti, with only one forward, the half-forwrds and two midfielders like Gattuso and Ambrosini. Unfortunately their fear was not enough to us to get a good result.”