Cosenza, 16 December 2023 - Coach, Fabio Pecchia’s comments following Parma’s draw away at Cosenza on Matchday 17 of the Serie BKT Championship. 

“Was there any chance that was a sending-off? I must have missed something… the bad thing is that I now have to pick Hainaut up, from a psychological point of view. A job that we’ll have to do all together, with the group and the team, for the situation he experienced. Negative for the 150 fans who were here because we wanted them to celebrate. But we are strong, a strong group, in soul and spirit. These matches can be drawn and lost. Today we showed great strength, they’re a strong group and I’m proud because today was an extraordinary match, from all perspectives. We didn’t misrepresent ourselves, we played the game we had to from a tactical point of view, it was normal that we had some difficulties in the second half, the team had spirit. 

Today I can only congratulate my team for a great performance and a demonstration of compactness, of mental strength. We didn’t concede, we created. But I still need to emphasise the boys’ performance, today was not easy. Angry, yes.

It makes me angry because it’s a game we wanted to play in a different way. And none of this was possible. I don’t need to add anything else. Who is chasing? It doesn’t matter, we showed strength and compactness, what happened in the past is a waste of energy, because today was a demonstration of the difficulties of the championship. Today we laid one more brick into building a strong group. 10 against 11 for 91 minutes? I congratulate my team, we showed we are a strong group that put in an extraordinary performance. I'm sorry for the 150 fans, but they saw an extraordinary attitude. I'm overjoyed for my team's performance.

I’m annoyed because I found a boy in the dressing room, Hainaut, who needs to be picked up mentally because he found himself in the dressing room after only 6 minutes… this makes me angry. The team suffered when they needed to, when we went into the opponent's half of the field we did it with confidence and dribbled well. We defended well and with order, Sohm is also a good left-back. A strong team in spirit and stronger than any situation, stronger than anything.'