Mario Mitaj appeared today at the press conference before Albania-Croatia - on Wednesday (15:00) in Hamburg - the second duel of the Rossoneri in Group B of Euro 2024.
"Who can be the Albanian hero against Croatia? I believe that in general all of us can fight to play as well as possible with the National Team. We have players like Broja with his qualities and Asani with his shots. Let's play as well as possible and take the National Team as high as possible. I think Broja can be the player who can hurt the Croatians.
We have forgotten the match with Italy, despite the upset of not getting points. We will enter the field with the same personality. I hope we play better and get points against Croatia.
I have no emotions when I enter the field, I try to enjoy it. Especially when we play in front of nearly 60,000 Albanian fans. I had only good emotions, no stress or negative emotions.
Croatia? This is the group of death, all opponents are strong. Croatia can also take the first place. To prepare, analyze the opponent and give the best on the field.
Italy? In the second half, my teammates provided me with more passes. In the first half I touched the ball a little. I am a player who likes to keep the ball at his feet.
The future will be at Lazio? Right now I'm not thinking about the future, I'm only thinking about the National Team.
Quick goal - We were all surprised, a bit excited by the quick goal against Italy, and went straight back to defence.
The coach didn't talk much, he told us that we made a good performance. It also told us that we need to improve the standard shots. We work hard, but we have to improve even more.
Cane's goal? It may be a little my fault, but it may also be a little Sefer's fault. We should not have allowed it even as a crossing. We have to improve in training, all as a team.
Fans? I believe that they will strongly support us against Croatia as well, but it depends on them.
Qualification? We are preparing for Croatia. We want to get on the field and play our football. I hope we get a positive result against Croatia, then comes Spain.
Criticism of Hysaj? It is not nice to criticize a player who has contributed so much to the National Team. He has given his soul for the National Team, it is not such a beautiful thing.
We know the qualities of Croatia, we know how strong a team they are. Today we will analyze them more tactically and how we will enter the field.
Croatia has all the departments strong, but I believe that the defense has the strongest point.
The atmosphere in the team is very good. We are a very harmonious team, we will continue like this. Let's continue to enjoy the European.
Did the psychological burden affect Italy? We respected the opponent a lot. We wanted to get something more. I hope we enter the field with better psychology against Croatia, and get something more.
I don't believe that psychological stress played much of a role, they were simply better than us and won the match", concluded the talented 20-year-old, part of Lokomotiv Moscow in Russia.