Inter-Lazio at 12:30 LIVE
Sarri thinks of Lazio 'Naples will celebrate later'
Important yes, decisive no.
Or at least not for Lazio's race for Europe.
Because the lunchtime challenge at San Siro between the Biancocelesti and Inter acts as the pin in the balance for the Scudetto: in fact, if Lazio don't win, Napoli can fight for the matchpoint for the title shortly afterwards, at home with the Salernitana.
Maurizio Sarri, former coach of the Neapolitans, will do everything to postpone Spalletti's Azzurri party.
"In Naples they've already set the table for our defeat - smiles the Tuscan coach - They'll celebrate anyway, but hopefully as late as possible: we'll do our best tomorrow".
After all, Sarri is thinking about his Lazio and the week of fire that begins right at San Siro and which will end up in the same stadium with Milan after Wednesday's match against Sassuolo:
"We have four more games after Milan," says Sarri.
The opponent is among the worst: finalists in the Italian Cup and semi-finalists in the Champions League, Inter "are capable of being lethal in one-off matches", continues Sarri, so Lazio will have to forget the good first leg victory: "Now "We have a little more certainty than then, but we face an extraordinarily competitive team. Inter want to finish in the top four, they've regained their confidence and enthusiasm."
Last Saturday's Lazio knockout against Turin happened because "we weren't at the top physically, or even mentally, tomorrow we'll understand if it was just a false step or if we already feel satisfied".
Ciro Immobile, according to the coach, is "calm and doesn't feel great pain";
good news for the frantic end of the season, with Lazio runners-up who 'see' next year's Champions League closer.
But Sarri extinguishes the enthusiasm judged premature: "There are four teams stronger than us regardless of the points in the league, so in the single game it is even more complicated".
At the end of the conference, the polemical soul of the Lazio coach emerges, who first dedicates a joke to the referee Ghersini ("He wasn't completely stopped after Lazio-Turin, but he wasn't allowed to go on either. My appeal was in part accepted"), one on Guida, designated for Inter-Lazio ("I don't think that if he lives 40 kilometers from Naples he'll be conditioned") and finally on tomorrow's kick-off time, 12.30: "The forecasts say rain,
but it could also have been 33 degrees, how the f*** can you play at that hour?
There are all the prerequisites for a not beautiful show - concludes Sarri - If we don't make a table with the Government to redo the stadiums, we are dead.
Italian football can get back to good levels, but the feeling is that they're making us sink again."