“Mentality, motivation and application”

After the penultimate weekly working session, Mr. Ferraro answered questions from journalists in the press room, at the "Massimino", focusing on the main issues relating to the next match: "We've had good training, the group is ready to face another test of strength and we are confident. We're fine and we're focused, we're playing against a team that's making a great championship but we have a very clear goal: to play nine finals in the best possible way and win the most victories. Let's not look at the standings, we are all motivated to do well to demonstrate our value by understanding the importance of the city of Catania. Choices are made based on what we see and what happens during the week: it's right to field those who are better off mentally and physically. We always start with the same spirit, all the teams that face us aim to write history by beating Catania but we have the right mentality, otherwise we wouldn't have achieved nine consecutive victories in the second round and we wouldn't have found ourselves +17 on the second . We left on August 3rd, thanks to the players, the club and the staff, it's too easy to say that Catania should have won the championship and that's it. Sarno will have surgery on Tuesday and will have it for 3-4 months, he has given us a great contribution, we wish him a speedy recovery and he will be with us to celebrate. We spoke and I told him to think about starting again. Tomorrow with the medical staff, after finishing, we will make assessments on the conditions of some players. We face a healthy team, they scored 51 goals: if Catania hadn't been there, it would have been a very balanced group. They play with a 3-4-3 or 3-4-1-2, it will be a match based on individual duels: we always have great respect for the opponent, but we are Catania and we have to think about ourselves. There may be difficulties, the matches only become easy in the 90th minute. It is a difficult race to face but easy to prepare for. Motivation and application allow us to demonstrate our strength. Our defense is so reliable also because they train against so many strong forwards, Catania's real success is the week of work with quality. Amount recovered? At 70%. Litteri is a little better, he's been training at a high pace for almost a month, I have such a large squad that with the squad available we can make up for even the unexpected. Giovinco? For me he is an important player regardless of how much he plays. After a year of working together, a relationship of affection is also created, Catania becomes a family and the public gives us an extra boost".