Mihajlovic: ‘Never conceded five in one half’
Sinisa Mihajlovic has never experienced conceding five goals in the first half before the game against Roma, but he backs Bologna players in their next game against Spezia.
The team has gone into a training retreat from Monday as a response to their disastrous 5-1 defeat against Roma.
“The training retreat was not punishment. We decided to do it so we could spend more time together and figure out what was going wrong,” said Mihajlovic in his press conference.
“Tomorrow we’ll see if the lads give a response on the field. We had prepared the Roma game the same way as usual, and we’d played better against stronger teams than them.
“It’d never happened in my career to concede five goals in one half. Roma played well, but we also had a goal disallowed, there was a penalty on Rodrigo Palacio, so 5-3 looks better than 5-1.
“It’s not my toughest time at Bologna, there are a lot of injuries and a win tomorrow could change everything again. The club and I know football, so we won’t fall into the provocation of newspaper sellers…
“What do you want me to say, that the players and I insult each other every day? It’s not true. There is still that empathy, I said we have a special rapport between me and this squad. What we experienced together and what they did for me during a complicated moment of my life is something I will never forget.
Spezia is more like the same coming off a heavy 4-1 defeat to Crotone.
“They are an aggressive and well-organized team, but so are we. We lost the most recent meeting in the Coppa Italia and this can be the right opportunity to make up for it. We’ll go there to take the initiative and win the match.”
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