Day before Monza – Lazio. The red and white coach Raffaele Palladino, after his Biancoceleste colleague Igor Tudor, spoke at the press conference to present the match. Below are his statements.
“The first leg? In the middle of that match there was a group and today there is a new coach at Lazio. That Monza did very well at the Olimpico but now we need to think about Saturday’s match. Igor Tudor is a very good coach, compared to the previous management, he is more cynical and concrete. Our injured? I don’t like to think about who I don’t have and haven’t had at my disposal, we’ve lost a lot of them along the way but it’s part of the game. I think we missed them a lot but whoever replaced them did very well. Football would be better without injuries but it can’t be like this. My experience influenced me a lot, I wasn’t able to express everything I wanted. However, I always think positively and we need to come out of injuries even stronger.”
“The team must be defended when it needs to be defended and it must be attacked when it needs to be attacked. True, Monza hasn’t won for a long time but I’ve always seen excellent performances. In these cases, when the performance is not lacking, the coach cannot help but be happy. The important thing is to create, in Lecce Colpani tried and it didn’t go well. It was a blocked match, perhaps not spectacular but there was a lot of solidity.”
“My future? I hear all this news but I don’t give it any weight. At the moment the priority is Monza. I’m very focused on the four games we have left and I want to do them to the fullest because we still have many goals to achieve. My experience with Monza? I often walk around the city and feel the atmosphere, the fans are very happy and this makes me proud. Like having given joy to them and improved every single boy. For a coach it is the most rewarding thing. There is nothing I wouldn’t do again, I feel like I have given everything for this team and have written pages of history of this club together with my staff.”
“Andrea Carboni isn’t called up and it’s a big loss. Machin and Ciurria are out while Vignato will go to play with the Primavera. Caprari is fine, he’s called up, but he lacks match pace a bit. Mota Carvalho and Izzo, on the other hand, have recovered “.
