The expectations for a high-quality result in the Latvian men’s national football team, due to the beginning of a new cycle, have already been replaced by a feeling of emptiness after the defeat against Armenia after the first match in the C division of the Nations League. “We have to respect our work. It’s not about the result, it’s about the attitude that didn’t satisfy me and for which I feel responsible,” said coach Paolo Nicolato before the second match of this trip against the Faroe Islands, that instead of focusing on the opponents, first you have to show yourself a worthy performance. The game against the Faroe Islands will largely determine the team’s ambitions in the continuation of this autumn cycle. It starts on Tuesday at 19:00 at Skonto Stadium and live on LTV7.
The national team, under the leadership of coach Nikolato, played test matches in Cyprus and the Baltic Cup tournament in Liepāja in the previous two matches, so the Italian specialist’s desire to finally see the level of Latvian football against such an opponent was understandable before the match in Yerevan. A 1:4 loss and lackluster performance almost throughout the game was hardly what the coach wanted to see. True, right after the game, the arrows of criticism for the mistakes made were replaced in Nicolato’s rhetoric by taking responsibility for the team’s performance a couple of days later. Instead of the phrases “We weren’t able to do what we were preparing for this game” and “We made too many mistakes and these mistakes caused us big problems”, the emphasis was already on the coach himself. “These players were my choice, it was mine
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2024-09-11 21:52:33