Fiorentina coach Vincenzo Montella was pleased by the spirit shown by his side as they defeated Guingamp 3-0 at the Stadio Artemio Franchi in the Europa League on Thursday night.
Goals from Juan Vargas, Juan Cuadrado and Federico Bernardeschi gave the Italians a comfortable 3-0 win over the French side who had been reduced to ten men after midfielder Mustapha Diallo was given his marching orders for a second yellow seven minutes from the break.
“All the players demonstrated the qualities that we saw while signing them,” Montella stated at his post-match press conference as reported by tuttocalcionews.net.
“We are well placed considering many players arrived in the last hour of the market and I consider [Mario] Gomez as a new signing because he hardly played last season.
“He has made a good start to the season but it will get difficult to justify him not getting on the score sheet with every passing game despite the fact that he has had to sacrifice a lot.
“We had worked in training on our crossing game not just for Gomez but for everyone and it adds another dimension to our game.
“I liked the team spirit as we sought the victory throughout the game and the players were able to manage the game well.
“Borja Valero received a blow to the muscle and we will have to wait and see how he is tomorrow.”
