For matchday 18 of Serie A on the pitch at 18.30 Lazio-Genoa
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Lazio
formations
(4-3-3):
1 Strakosha;
23 Hysaj, 3 Luiz Felipe, 33 Acerbi, 77 Marusic;
21 Milinkovic-Savic, 32 Cataldi, 10 Luis Alberto;
9 Pedro, 7 Felipe Anderson, 20 Zaccagni.
(25 Reina, 31 Adamonis, 29 Lazzari, 4 Patric, 26 Radu, 6 Leiva, 5 Escalante, 8 Akpa Akpro, 88 Basic, 94 Muriqi, 27 Moro).
Coach: Sarri.
Disqualified: none Beware: Cataldi.
Unavailable: Property.
Genoa (3-5-2):
57 Sirigu, 3 Vanheusden, 55 Masiello, 4 Criscito, 18 Ghiglione, 90 Portanova, 47 Badelj, 27 Sturaro, 50 Cambiaso, 19 Pandev, 23 Destro. (1 Semper, 22 Marchetti, 13 Bani, 2 Sabelli, 14 Biraschi, 15 Vasquez, 33 Hernani, 90 94 Touré, 10 Melegoni, 24 Bianchi, 91 Kallon, 20 Ekuban. All .: Shevchenko. Disqualified: none. Warning: Biraschi Unavailable: Maksimovic, Caicedo, Fares, Rovella
Referee: Pairetto di Nichelino
THE EVE.
The turning point between tomorrow and Wednesday evening. Between Shevchenko's Genoa and Maurizio Sarri's Lazio trip to the lagoon, they want to recover that serenity lost after the knockout suffered in comeback at Sassuolo's home. And according to the bianoceleste coach, this time there is not even the excuse of a Europa League that "is grinding us", as he revealed today in a press conference on the eve of tomorrow's advance at the Olimpico against the Griffin. Punctuating data and statistics that have highlighted to the staff the difference between the league matches followed in Europe and those without: "This is a team that has a good level of application but the Europa League is crushing us, for our own faults, we have 11 games with an average of 1.91 points, while after the Europa League it drops to 0.6.This results in those 7-8 points less than normal. This team is unable to manage this moment ", the Lazio coach admitted, specifying that" the problem is clearly unconscious, since nobody wants to get to the game unloaded. "But for this very reason, the problem" is difficult to solve ". . This however "is the limit that distinguishes a strong team from a normal one, we come unloaded", added Sarri, underlining that "this is the only thing" that is not good for the Biancocelesti now. In a season of transition or "construction. ", as the former Juventus coach has always explained." For the rest the team trains well, with a good level of application ", then continued Sarri.that on the company's will to renew its contract, and on the objectives to be pursued once signed (perhaps even before Christmas), he clarified: "The goal is to build a possibly young team, which is destined, at least in theory, to grow over time, slowly, making a path. Then where the path can lead us no one knows. In our opinion it is the most viable path in our dimension ". "The experience in Naples was like this. It was much faster, but the focus was on the coach, like here. This is why I have always said that I am fine here and that I want to stay", he then admitted. Sarri, increasingly involved in the biancoceleste project after the words of Claudio Lotito who in fact only saved the coach at the end of year dinner.And if the match against Genoa will serve to understand on the pitch whether the players have assimilated the patron's curiosity, in the meantime the apologies have arrived, to the team and president, from some players who had left the dinner table before the patron's speech. . Among the players who at the end of the dinner had appreciated Lotito's "groomed", there was also the captain Ciro Immobile, but today he had to skip the finishing touch and on whom the question about his presence on the pitch now hangs. Sarri did not speak about it at the conference, but instead appeared optimistic about the conditions of Pedro, Luis Alberto and Zaccagni. If Immobile does not make it, it is likely that in the trident it will be up to the former Barcelona and Chelsea to replace him in the leading role, with the former Verona and Felipe Anderson on the outside.
