Inter coach Stefano Pioli spoke with Sky after the victory against Empoli:

“We played as a team despite important absences. It is important to have the basic concepts and right attitude. The league is at the highest level, we will try to win all matches. We did the numbers, winning 12 of 14, should get us to Champions League. We know it is not going to be easy, but nothing is impossible and we will try it.”

The reaction of Palacio? “Do not bother to ask me, he’s a professional guy. Right now everyone wants to improve, he believed that he could have done better, it was a tense match. He has not been disrespectful to anyone, he’s always thinking of the team, and that Rodrigo did. he wanted to convert more, but we will have time to work. The anger of Palacio comes because this week we covered the mistakes made against Juventus and we repeated them today. There is rage, we are men and we work to get the results. We have the ideal characteristics to score more goals.”

“Since my arrival I was wrong a couple of times. This week we just thought of work, we focused on each situation. There is belief that the work done will take us far. We had a very good performance tonight. I’m happy for the growth of Kondogbia, he has improved on the psycho-physical condition. There is still room for improvement on some situations, for instance today he picked up a yellow card. We knew that the Empoli defended in a strange way and we focused on certain areas to attack. Crossing for us are important situations, in Turin we did not get in the box for the cross.”

Source: Sky Sports