“Good matches await us against the strongest teams in Italy. Inter deservedly won and I congratulate them, we will have to be at our best to score as many points as possible.” Thus begins the conference Ivan Juric, Torino coach, in the press conference on the eve of the away match at San Siro against the new Italian champions. Here are the most important passages collected by TMW.
How do you see Inter?
“They play in front of their fans in a full stadium, they will want to demonstrate their value. In the end we shouldn’t care, we have to give our performance. They are strong, we want a great match.”
What type of match will it be?
“Both they and we try to propose things, as a block we work well and so we concede few goals.”
What do you need from Ilic, Vlasic and Sanabria?
“We know they have the quality to do something more.”
Where will Tameze play?
“He is an absolute level professional, he is one of the few who saves against Frosinone. He deserves to be back in the middle, he breathes there and could return to midfield.”
Do you still believe in Europe?
“We are all sad and disappointed for Frosinone, but after the derby we were enthusiastic as well as after the very high performances of the previous matches. We have to go back to doing that. We will find Inter who are champions, Bologna who play fantastically, but we have to get back to those levels. I hope to compete with the next opponents.”
What do you think about the all-female referee panel?
“I hope that it becomes a normal thing, that the girls improve and that we no longer focus on whether the referee is male or female. It’s a great thing”
Can Masina return against Inter?
“We haven’t had great results on the left, we haven’t had what we hoped to achieve. Masina is more of a third, you could move Rodriguez further forward: Masina has always done well, let’s see for tomorrow.”
Who are the injured?
“Pellegri returns, Sazonov doesn’t. Then the others are out: the stops by Schuurs and Djidji penalized us, also because we put Tameze behind and took him away from the front. It’s something that penalized us. Now we’re few, after January we are less and we have few solutions even during the match. We were unlucky with injuries like Gineitis, Schuurs and Djidji, all traumatic. We practically avoided muscle injuries, things went badly with our shoulders and knees and they are injuries you can’t deal with do nothing”.
Is there a chance to see some debuts from the Primavera’s young players?
“We are attentive to the Primavera, we know them all. You can even make a young player debut, but I don’t know if it makes sense. If we focus on Gineitis we do so seriously. There are many competitive boys, as a concept I would like these boys to deserve it and if they won him like Gineitis it would be a nice thing for a player from the youth sector to arrive in the first team seriously, not as a gift.”
