Pioli: “Never had such a compact group, not even the year of the scudetto”

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“When you go into a double lead like in Naples, it’s legitimate to expect to win – explains Pioli -. And so it’s a shame with how it went at Maradona, but that’s now the past. Expectations have risen for us , of course, and rightly so. Tomorrow I will field the best possible team, the intention is to return to victory and then there will be time to prepare for the Champions League. Now it is too important to do well against Udinese. The infirmary? Loftus-Cheek is well and will be available, while Pulisic I won’t bring him as a precaution and he will be with PSG, like Chukwueze. Kjaer also has a good chance for Tuesday. Yesterday’s dinner? I’m absolutely certain about one thing: I’ve never had such a solid, cohesive, compact, eager and available group, not even the championship year. It’s something that rarely happens and I told the players that we need to take advantage of something like this. We’re lucky enough and therefore we have to focus only on performances because we will never have problems in other situations.”