The Lazio coach: “We are in no man’s land, every match can be a turning point. Me at Juve? The satisfaction of the last scudetto of the cycle remains…”
Maurizio Sarri has shown Lazio the most concrete path for the match against Juventus. “I expect a difficult match, against a team that played on par with Real Madrid – declared the Biancoceleste coach before Formello’s finish -. In Como Juve may not have been brilliant, but they had the opportunities. In Madrid I saw them healthy. For us it will be a match to face with humility, there will be moments of difficulty that must be faced and overcome with sacrifice”. For the Commander, the starting point was last Sunday’s performance in the draw at Atalanta. “I saw a step forward, in terms of approach and personality. The suffering was predictable, but the team tried to fight. We must do the same tomorrow.” Could the match against Juventus be a turning point in Lazio’s championship? Sarri replies: “We need to play an important match, I told the boys that we are now in no man’s land. We left Bergamo with the awareness of being able to do well, but in practice in the same situation as before. Every match can be a positive or negative turning point. We must have the conviction to believe in the work we are doing. Without creating alibis. We must have a lot of motivation to be able to play on an equal footing with a team that has played on an equal footing with Real Madrid. Then it is crucial to keep all the energy on the match, we don’t care about the opponents or the referee. On Sunday we took five free kicks and came away with no yellow cards. Energy must be spent in the right way.”
injuries and goals
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Tavares’ stop was added. The Lazio coach and the topic of preparation. “Today in 2025, no one is wrong about preparation anymore. There is nutrition, prevention, physiotherapy, there are a thousand factors. For many there have also been previous situations. It’s our fault on Dele-Bashiru, that of the whole environment. He had returned from the national team badly and we forced him. The derby didn’t pay off. Then Castellanos and Cancellieri stopped. Castellanos left a bad taste in our mouths because he gave us good sensations. Cancellieri had some out of the ordinary values, but the Thursday results arrived on Monday and Isaksen’s were also worrying. Among 13 injuries I discarded 10, connected to other things.” The relationship with the company is among the problems of a market that is still uncertain for January after being blocked in the summer. “I’ve always had a good relationship with sporting director Fabiani, this doesn’t mean that we can’t sometimes disagree. I spoke to president Lotito last night, everything is normal.” What horizons for Lazio? “To be competitive to return to real Europe, however, everyone needs to participate in the process”. And does the scudetto won with Juventus in 2020 still have a place in your memories? Sarri underlined: “I was at Juve for one season, from March onwards it was played behind closed doors (due to Covid, ed.). A particular year, but the satisfaction of having won the scudetto at the end of the cycle remains…”.