Maggio happy with the point against Serbia and wants to cement his place in the national team setup
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Christian-Maggio-c9098, is content with his team’s 1-1 draw against Serbia at the Crvena Zvezda Stadion on Friday, 07 October 2011.
Gli Azzurri scored in the 2nd minute of the game courtesy a nice finish from Juventus midfielder, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Branislav-Ivanovic-c7994 in the 26th minute.
Italy had topped the Group C and had qualified for the Euro 2012 before the start of the game while Vlado Petrovic’s men are still a point away from qualification.
Maggio, who made a rare start in the Italian starting line-up, is extremely happy with the result as it maintains their unbeaten run in the competition. The Partenopei defender admitted that it was one of the toughest games of the competition for his team but they did really well to clinch a point.
The 29-year-old added that the team wanted to play well despite qualifying for Euro 2012 and believes that they played the game according to manager’s expectations.
“We knew it was tough and tried to keep hold of the result, as http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Serbia-c3002 began piling on the pressure, as was entirely expected. It’s a good point. The Coach knows we are experienced and wanted to do well even if we had already qualified, so he didn’t need to fire us up. We were fully aware that we could impress in Belgrade and I think we did.”
“We knew Serbia would hit us hard in the first half and I thought they couldn’t keep up that level of aggression, which turned out to be true.”
The former Fiorentina defender is happy with his performances and wants to continue representing his country in the future too.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Northern-Ireland-c2972 on Tuesday, October 11th, 2011 at the Stadio Adriatico, Pescara. The wingback was urged his teammates to finish the group strongly with a win as it would give them a lot of confidence for their future games.
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