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Pagliuca: let's think about Modena.


Gianluca, these days everyone is thinking about the words spoken by Guidolin after Locatelli's goal.

"And that's a pity, after a great match and a night of beautiful football. If we'd won that match, those words would have been surely forgotten; but now what people forgot is the very good match played by Bologna and, in some moments, by Juventus. I would be happy if people talked more about real football and less about things that have almost nothing to do with football. About my coach's reaction, I just can say that I'm also very impulsive and that, during a match, with all the adrenaline out there, it is normal to see some disagreement. Anyway I think it's very important that Guuidolin apologized. "

Ok. So what about the goal scored by Juventus after five minutes of injury time?

"Sunday night I didn't sleep, and I had a lot of trouble falling asleep last night, too. We feel pretty bitter because three points instead of one would have given us more chances to get a place in UEFA Cup. With Chievo still to face at Dall'Ara stadium, it would have been still possible. Now everything is much harder, even if the most important thing is to think concluding this season in the best way."

So, what about YOUR season?

"I surely played my best first round of the season since I arrived in Bologna, but then I made some mistakes, like anyone else, I guess. I think I made a fair contribution."

The derby against Modena is coming up on Saturday. How are you surviving the wait?

"I'm glad that we'll play on a field where there is certain to be a lot of thrilling pressure. It's good for us to play such an important derby, since very often after a great performance the following week we tend to go into some kind of a slump. I don't think there's much chance of that this week, facing a team that'll try to play its best match of the season to remain in Serie A, especially since the result is also important to us."

Could we say that, with the match against Juventus, Bologna FC has finally completely recovered?

"We said it even before Como, and you all saw what happened... No, let's leave this matter alone. We'll try to stay calm and do our best in every match from here till the end."

With Camoranesi's goal did Juve win the title?

"Lippi's team has a 90% chance to become the Italian champion. 90%. But if they'll think that they have already done it, well, they may run into trouble... Inter and Milan's schedules seem to be less difficult, and in the last years we have seen a lot of surprises. But aren't you going to ask me about the ball boys?"

What do you mean?

"Besides the incredible celebration of Juve's tying goal, this was something amazing: I have never seen ball boys be so quick returning the ball to a visiting team that was down 2-1; even they seemed to be anxious for Juve to tie the game. If they are such huge Juve fans, why don't they go work at Delle Alpi?"

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