Paulo Fonseca spoke to Sky Sport Italia microphones just minutes before the kickoff of the match against Bayer Leverkusen:
What did you say to the team to motivate them?
"I shared words of motivation and courage to play a quality game because they have quality. This is an opportunity, and we must see it as such and play with courage."
On the formation:
"We're keeping the same structure; nothing changes except for one player. It’s too risky to start Morata today. We have Tijji to play this position, which he has already done. Other than that, almost nothing changes."
On the team's philosophy, Fonseca said:
"It depends on the way we want to defend. We can change, and we will certainly do so against other teams that play differently. We have stability defending this way, but we can't have this defensive structure against everyone."
