Igor Tudor, coach of Lazio, spoke to the official microphones of the Biancoceleste club to comment on the draw just obtained against Sassuolo (last match of this championship), which allowed his team to qualify for next season’s Europa League.
Here are his statements: “A great result, a great journey has been made. The Europa League is a wonderful competition, to be enjoyed, congratulations to the boys. Today one point was enough, there were so many emotions. The kids have probably heard all of this a little. We didn’t manage to win, but that doesn’t take anything away. Positive return? We did the right things, we are happy. We got to know each other little by little with the players, you have to be happy, I found a lot of availability. Bath of Lazio? It was exciting, maybe the kids heard it too. Today was the last one, only one point was enough, the mentality of the players also changes a little, it must be understood.”
“Europa League? We have to do the best we can. Now, first of all, we need to make the right market choices. There will be a lot of work to do there and prepare for next season. Anyone from Spring? We’ll see, we’ll see if we can bring someone on retreat. If I understood the aenvironment? Yes, therehe city of Rome talks about football, she likes football and above all discussing it. So much importance is given to football, this is a characteristic of the city. Many radios, TVs, I understood how football is experienced here in Rome. Herealification in the Europa League? A beautiful competition, it’s not the Champions League that is more beautiful. It must be done in the best way. We’ll see, we need to rest and prepare as best we can with the right squad to make the best Lazio possible.”
The Biancoceleste coach also spoke in the post-match press conference:
“Thank you for the compliments, I’m especially happy for the boys. Place and Europa League deserved, today ended in the right way with a point. Clearly there is work to be done and it must be done, it seems to me that we have already spoken with the club and we will continue to do so to do the right things, to build Lazio in the best possible way. There is no news about Kamada. For me there is room for improvement and there are people who can adapt to both roles and those who can’t. With the club we will need to build a team that plays football well, now we will get to work and rebuild. We all want to create the right Lazio together, the best possible because we want to be strong with the characteristics that I want, we have to play in the Europa League and do well in the championship.”
“My assistant and I commented before coming on how the atmosphere was for the 50th anniversary of the first league title and I really liked the atmosphere for Eriksson today too. We exchanged a few words with Sven and he asked Ciro how many goals he scored, it was very nice. I want to help Rovella grow as a ball recoverer and his playing qualities are high.”
“Contract? I may be 2-3 years old, but nothing changes for me and nothing will happen for the locker room either. The time of the contract does not change anything. The championship was won in 2000 and I don’t think there is a coach who comes and wants to finish tenth, he always wants to have the strongest. There is also a desire on the part of the president to create a strong team. As I said in the pre-match conference, we talked and there is a lot of work to be done to get the players. The coach shows the way but if the squad is limited, he will get to that place. Final whistles from the Stadium? They definitely wanted the victory, but the boys will certainly have felt the emotion of Felipe Anderson’s last but I still congratulate my boys.”
“With me the training camp is all year round, we work hard all year round, yes maybe during the year we work less but for me preparation is a lot of work and we will do it on everything. For me the work pays and there will be a lot of pedaling. Market and Guendouzi? I stand by both answers. I also won’t respond to Immobile-Castellanos for the future. Kamada? In my opinion he will have to be inserted more in front of the defense. Lazio like Salernitana not very proactive at home? The statistics are for the whole year and I have been here for a few months. As far as inactive balls are concerned, we don’t have very tall players and unfortunately we don’t win aerial duels very often.”
