Atalanta-Lazio, Sarri: “Lotito? I can’t get into the president’s head.”

The statements of the Biancoceleste coach who spoke after the match against the Bergamo players directly from the press room of the Gewiss Stadium

Lazio loses in Bergamo, wasting yet another opportunity to stay in the top four places. A performance to forget in the shortest possible time. At the end of the match Maurizio Sarri answered the usual questions from journalists in the post-race press conference. Here are his statements.

Lazio seemed very fragile to me. Zero shots on target against Inter, Napoli and today in the first half. Today could have been a final exam for the Champions League chase… Fabiani said: “we have very little to repair”. Lotito said “the coach didn’t ask us anything”

“This defeat becomes more difficult for the rankings. It’s also disappointing for the direct clashes. They have a way of playing that requires having an excellent physical and mental condition. When they are like this, it becomes a tough match for us. But not only for us, for everyone. I don’t start thinking about the market. I’m completely uninterested. So I leave neither disappointed nor happy. If these are the considerations, it means that we will have to understand how to achieve certain objectives”.

Last year after Atalanta something happened. Where do we start again tomorrow morning?

“In these situations there is little that can be done. We analyze the match and also the opponent who was very good this evening. We evaluate what can be done to avoid being left out (of the Champions League race). Making dramas seems unproductive to me Atalanta is a top team at home when it comes to home games and the numbers speak for themselves. Don’t make any dramas and try to rediscover the mental brilliance that we are losing a bit. You can’t think that the team will come here and not want to play the match. This difficulty we had in getting out of their pressure affects you. If you can’t get out of that situation it becomes hard. If you can it can become easier.”

What’s the problem? Does he have the wand to radically change?

“I don’t have the wand. My way of working is to work my ass off day by day and try to get out of situations. I’ve seen obvious drops in individual performance. I can’t tell you whether they’re physical or mental and this wasn’t the worst performance. It’s clear that we have players who can do more and who must be put in a position to be able to score. If you notice the Napoli match, it’s a match in which you don’t concede anything and create the situation to being able to create a scoring opportunity 7-8 times.”

There is the feeling that you are no longer at the center of the project

“Worried, no, I don’t know. I don’t know Lotito’s ideas in depth. They can’t get into the president’s head. I’ve never had these negative feelings that you say. If you’re referring to the fact that in the summer I asked for players and I have received others that is normal. The market is made up of 2000 effects that must be linked together. The feasibility, the economic, technical aspect, availability. The players you ask for are never so obvious or so banal. I’m really not interested in the market. You have a minimum of worry in the background when you lose. There’s a fund of asshole turnover.”

Who can shake up the players?

I always hope to recover them all. Felipe is giving some signals in the hope that that signal will bring us back to the performance he had accustomed us to. But it applies to him and to others. Ciro came in this evening, took the penalty and converted it. Another good sign. Pedro entered with a different attitude. For now we have to settle for this and hope to see the players from last season again. In the first match we seemed to be in a different category, especially in the first half. Today for 65 minutes they seemed much stronger than us.”

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