"With Vlahovic's departure we lost a teammate and an important player who was finalizing our game in a concrete and decisive way, but we go ahead with our heads held high. The group is very united and will not be affected."
It will not have to wait long, Vincenzo Italiano, to understand if all this is true: tomorrow night the Lazio of the other Serie A top scorer, Ciro Immobile, will arrive at the Franchi, and for Fiorentina to debut without the Serbian center-forward who scored 20 of the 52 goals by the team between the championship and the Italian Cup will immediately be a tough examination, a direct confrontation from a European perspective.
"Sarri's team is among the strongest, they are trained very well and have players capable of punishing you at any moment - said the Viola coach -.
Sarri: "the market? Are we these, no excuses"
- The end of the winter transfer market and the arrival of only Jovane Cabral, then yesterday's dispute in Formello and the away match against Fiorentina at the gates.
Maurizio Sarri prefers to archive January like this: "The transfer market is over, stop", closes the Biancoceleste coach, already aware of having to make a virtue of necessity.
"It is useless to talk about it - he specifies at the press conference on the eve of the 'Franchi' match -. Any kind of speech at this moment can backfire on the team, we have to do better with these players and in my opinion we can do better. I have to keep the team away from alibis. We are these and we have to do better with them. "
No excuses for those who remained, even if a specific question is whether or not he is happy with the Biancocelesti's signing campaign,
Probable formations of Fiorentina-Lazio.
Fiorentina (4-3-3): 1 Terracciano, 23 Venuti, 4 Milenkovic, 98 Igor, 3 Biraghi, 5 Bonaventura, 18 Torreira, 10 Castrovilli, 33 Sottil, 19 Piatek, 11 Ikoné.
(69 Dragowski, 17 Terzic, 2 Quarta, 55 Nastasic, 14 Maleh, 34 Amrabat, 32 Duncan, 7 Callejon, 22 Gonzalez, 8 Saponara, 91 Kokorin, 9 Cabral).
All. Italian.
Suspended: Odriozola.
Be wary: Biraghi, Bonaventura, Milenkovic.
Unavailable: none.
Lazio (4-3-3): 1 Strakosha;
23 Hysaj, 3 Luiz Felipe, 26 Radu, 77 Marusic;
21 Milinkovic-Savic, 32 Cataldi, 88 Basic;
9 Pedro, 17 Building, 20 Zaccagni.
(25 Reina, 31 Adamonis, 29 Lazzari, 44 Floriani Mussolini, 4 Patric, 6 Leiva, 28 André Anderson, 10 Luis Alberto, 18 Romero, 27 Moro, 7 Felipe Anderson, 11 Cabral).
Coach: Sarri.
Disqualified: none.
Beware: Marusic, Luis Alberto, Luiz Felipe.
Unavailable: Acerbi, Akpa Akpro, Kamenovic.
Referee: Orsato di Schio Snai odds: 2.40;
3.45;
2.85.