On the pitch from 18:45 Lazio-Porto and Olympiakos-Atalanta for the return match of the 16th finals of the Europa League.
In the first leg the Biancocelesti had been defeated 2-1 at the home of the Lusitanians while the Goddess had beaten the Greeks 2-1 in Bergamo.
The other matches scheduled at 18:45
Dinamo-Zagreb-Seville (first leg 2-2)
Real Sociedad-Leipzig (first leg 3-1 for Leipzig)
At 21
Betis-Zenit (first leg 3-2 for Betis)
Braga -S. Tiraspol (first leg 2-o for Tirasol)
Naples-Barcelona (first leg 1-1)
Rangers-Dortmund (first leg 4-2 for Rangers)
SO ON THE EVE
Gasperini, camp is better medicine
- "Returning to the field and playing is the best medicine, also to remove us from the heavy controversies of last Sunday and beyond".
Gian Piero Gasperini, on the eve of the return of the Europa League playoffs with Olympiacos, mentions the defeat amidst the controversy in Florence: "We are in an emergency especially in attack amid the absences of Muriel, Zapata and also Miranchuk, but we are in impaired conditions in any case, they were able to fight for Inter, Lazio and Juve, we always score and they don't always validate them ", observes the Atalanta coach in the press conference from the Karaiskakis stadium.
"We have more solutions, but no evaluation has been made on any released players, also because Duvan got hurt when the market was closed".
Gasperini expresses himself on
Sarri, 'Difficult but not impossible with Porto'
- "Porto are a strong team that would also be competitive in Italy. The first leg match told us that it is very difficult but not impossible."
So Lazio coach Maurizio Sarri on the eve of the return of the Europa League playoffs against Porto at the Olimpico.
Challenge that anticipates the big match of the Olimpico against Napoli, even if Sarri specifies: "Calculations? No, it's an important match, let's go ahead on our way. I don't like to make calculations", urges the Tuscan coach, who on his returns of Immobile and Acerbi clarifies: "Acerbi was stopped for 45 days, he recovered from a medical point of view but clearly he is not at his best. We will see if there will be a need to take him to the bench but at the moment he is not in a position to play from ' start. Ciro stopped for only 7 days,
let's see how it is in today's training and then we will decide.
They are games in which it is necessary to have great mental clarity.
The first is defensive clarity, otherwise we compromise the game.
We have the quality to change the game at any time. "