Alberto Gilardino: We Performed on discipline in the Second Round

Parma - Alberto Gilardino appeared as the hero of the Italian national team to be beaten again at 3-2 Cyprus Ultimate Fight World Cup qualifying Group 8, early this morning. Gilardino's claim, this victory could not be separated from the performance are very good Gli Azzurri in the second half.


Yes, Italy is a poor performance in the first round. How could a new game in the 12th minute, the Italian goalkeeper, who accompanied the young goalkeeper, Marchetti had to give way through the action of Ioannis Okkas. Italy again surprised when Cyprus had double the advantage in the second half through Michael.

Behind two goals, the Italian courtier successfully demonstrated the mental, the defending champion (World Cup 2006). Slowly but surely, Gli Azzurri began to take control of the game. Its peak occurs at 12 minutes ahead of the game, when the Italian team's defense is completely blocked until a successful outcome turn things through Hattrick Gilardino.

"We realized, we will face a tough team. Physically, (Cyprus) is a very good player. A team beat Bulgaria 4.1 team is certainly not in vain," said Gilardino was quoted Datasport.it, Thursday (15/10 / 2009).

"We know that in the first round of Cyprus lot creates a problem for us. Therefore, we did not come with a good organinasi. But in the second half we were able to improve performance, we played well with short passes, and back to create problems for opponents, "he added.

"I think every player must always be ready to play while training. Tonight, it seemed pretty clean, especially in the second round, where we played ball control to play well. With this performance, he feels that can achieve better results than this, "Closing the former AC Milan striker who currently plays for Fiorentina.