Adelaide United Head Coach Airton Andrioli says the Reds will take a \u201cone game at a time\u201d mindset into Saturday\u2019s clash with league leaders Newcastle Jets, backing his side\u2019s belief and recent consistency as the season enters its decisive stretch.<\/p>\n
Andrioli confirmed the squad is healthy and expects to keep selection stable again, while stressing Adelaide\u2019s focus remains on translating confidence into performance against \u201cthe best team in the league at the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Andrioli on consistency in selection\u2026
\u201cWe have everybody healthy, so it\u2019s just us making decisions for us a little bit easier in the last few weeks. So we want to keep it like that, keep it consistent, because I think it\u2019s good for the whole playing group.\u201d<\/p>\n
Andrioli on embracing the challenge of the league leaders\u2026
\u201cFor us, difficult games, I think we played our best football against the so-called bigger teams and the most challenging games and that\u2019s a credit to the playing group. We were gelling well together. We\u2019re growing together in good timing. And for us, it\u2019s taking one game at a time. It\u2019s getting close to the end now. The next game against Newcastle, obviously the top team in the league, the best team in the league at the moment. So we\u2019re going there. They\u2019re full of confidence. If we do play our football, we can get the result.\u201d<\/p>\n
Andrioli on using confidence the right way\u2026
\u201cConfidence is a word that many people use, but you need to make sure that you use it in the right direction, because also, confidence can bring a little bit of a sense of complacency sometimes. We ought to take the confidence in the right direction, making sure that that confidence builds us with more belief and the desire to do things in the right way.\u201d<\/p>\n
Andrioli on pressure and keeping the message consistent\u2026
\u201cThe message is always the same. The most difficult game is your next game, and that\u2019s the game tomorrow night against Newcastle. So we\u2019re only preparing for that. You can only focus on that. Once we go over that hurdle, then we think about the next obstacle that\u2019s going to be in front of us, but nothing changes. We want to play the way we\u2019ve been playing. We want to use the belief and the confidence to get another three points tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n
Andrioli on the tactical focus\u2026
\u201cWe always look at past scenarios and also the way things are changing, because even though you play them a couple of times, depending how far the game is, depending momentum and the time in the league, it could be different. So you always got to be prepared. The main thing is that we know what we want to do, how we want to play with and without the ball, and that\u2019s going to be our main focus for tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n
Andrioli on young players earning their opportunities\u2026
\u201cI believe in doing the job, doing the talking on the football pitch, and some of those boys have been doing that. I\u2019m extremely proud of the way those boys have raised to the moment, embraced the things we want to do, and full credit to them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adelaide United Head Coach Airton Andrioli says the Reds will take a \u201cone game at a time\u201d mindset…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[32406,11470,64,63,952,596,668,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-597341","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-a-league","9":"tag-adelaide-united","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-featured","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-press-conference","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}