After the match at the Tardini Claudio Ranieri speaks with the arguments of those who know that now is the best part. "We did a great feat, but we didn't do anything," he said. «It's right to celebrate but now we're in the final, with another great team to face». He immediately analyzes the game: «We wanted to attack them, pressing them like in the first leg. We didn't make it because it's a great team. We weren't supposed to find out. There was a lot of running on the outside and lots of dancing, I saw Kourfalidis tired, even though he did well. So I put in Di Pardo and advanced Nandez. Their attacking midfielders did little through no fault of their own thanks to mine. There has never been a clean pocket .'
The praise of the team is absolute and also of the public, who went to say hello at the end of the match: «Despite the strength of the opponent and the quality of the substitutions, I must reiterate that Cagliari have heart, they are a healthy and strong-willed group. We've seen it in the last quarter of an hour. As a group it's in the very first places among the teams I've coached in my career, I arrived when he couldn't do anything and instead we slowly moved forward. Now we hope to reap the benefits: for me being the coach of Cagliari is like when I was at Roma: my heart is here».
Lapadula? «He's fine, regardless of the ball. He took a blow to the ankle and I preferred to wear Prelec».
Final word on Bari: «We will do everything to win: Thursday and Sunday there will be racing and fighting. And if we had had the stadium, we too would have filled it with 50,000 fans».
The opponents
Disappointed Fabio Pecchia, Parma coach: «My team has never distorted itself», he says. «Did the best team go through? We played 180 minutes leading the game. Cagliari has passed, honor to Cagliari». Arbitration controversy: "Ask Ranieri, since he's an expert on referees."
