On the eve of the match between UC Sampdoria and Cesena FC, Mister Michele Mignani held a pre-match press conference to present the Cavalluccio's next challenge, scheduled for Saturday, September 13, at 7:30 p.m. at the Luigi Ferraris Stadium and valid for the third matchday of the 2025/2026 Serie BKT Championship.

" It's too early to make judgments and rankings after only three games. Among the teams in our league, the only one I didn't want to face on this matchday is Sampdoria, because we will certainly find a wounded team coming off two games in which they found themselves behind: against Modena, in a balanced game with fifteen minutes to go, and against Südtirol, where the score was 3-0 after thirty minutes. They were difficult games to decipher, and I expect a team full of pride and desire to earn points for their ranking and to satisfy their fans, who are great supporters, as demonstrated by their record number of season tickets.“

”The fact that we never won after the international break last year is, I believe, an end in itself. I don't think there is a specific reason, and we would have to look back to understand what the schedule was like after the break and what kind of games we played. Maybe if you're down to ten men after half an hour, it's even harder to win the game after the break, but joking aside, I think the team is doing well, and as I said, we're going to a ground that I think is very difficult. In some ways, it's better to face a team that's coming off two wins rather than two losses, but in other ways, it's not. However, what we have to do is focus on ourselves. If we want to grow, improve, and strengthen our character, then we can't settle for less, and we have to know that we need to earn points or, at the very least, put in a performance that would give us a better chance of earning points in Genoa."

The full press conference is available on the Cesena FC YouTube channel: