“We worked for seven months with one objective, which was that our fans and the city of Wuhan enjoy a victory of their club, at least in the first game. It was a responsibility and my players wereconscious that today they had to give a victory, a triumph to our city and our fans. Today the problems we had were probably forgotten for 90 minutes.”

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