The Viola coach: “We finally managed to beat the Biancocelesti after three years, it’s an immense joy”
Italiano also finds – finally – a way to smile a little. Especially after a nightmare first half, with almost 70% ball possession, three posts and… a goal conceded by Luis Alberto. “We finally managed to beat Lazio after three years, today is an immense joy because apart from the return to victory we put in an amazing performance – says the coach -. It was an objective to put our opponents in difficulty, and we succeeded. Satisfaction double. We had prepared something different, see Beltran’s position, see Bonaventura’s position further back, and he brought three points because everyone sacrificed themselves – added Italiano -. When you play with this desire you bring home the victory. We also had wasted a penalty that could have killed us and instead in the end we took three points. We were used to bad surprises at the end of games, we couldn’t stay calm against a team that perhaps didn’t fully demonstrate it today, but that we did it. At the end of the match I saw the boys rejoicing in the locker room like in the old days.”
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Sarri, on the other hand, is angry: “The team never reacted, neither after an undeserved advantage nor after a missed penalty. They were mentally flat throughout the match, at this point I wonder if we have the structure to have more competitions , now we just hope to recover some injured people.”