Earthquake at Lazio who, after elimination from the Champions League and yet another knockout in the league, find themselves without a coach.
On the day after the painful defeat at the Olimpico against Udinese, Maurizio Sarri decided to resign, putting the Biancoceleste club in trouble which now seriously risks not finding a replacement for next Saturday's match against Frosinone.
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Which becomes the fourth considering the defeat against Bayern which cost them the exit from the Champions League.
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A field day in Formello, with the Tuscan coach announcing that he would put an end to his adventure in the early afternoon, and after an intense conversation with sporting director Fabiani and Primavera director Alberto Bianchi, he left the Lazio sports centre.
The defeat against Udinese (the twelfth in the league, sixteenth of the season, the fourth in a row) was the straw that broke the camel's back, almost full after complicated weeks (with the collapses against Bologna and Fiorentina or the ferocious refereeing controversies after Milan).
Sarri would thus say goodbye to Lazio after two and a half intense years, made up of highs (the second place last season, the four derbies won in a row) and lows (the disappointing results in Europe and the Conference League and this season's progress in Serie A). 'year).
Yesterday the coach in the locker room had directly asked the team if they wanted him goodbye: the lack of an equally direct response from the players must have convinced him that he no longer had control and that it was therefore right to step aside.
The attitude of the squad, rebellious at the prospect of a punitive withdrawal, was further confirmation.
Two months after Mourinho's farewell to Roma, the Biancoceleste side of the capital also changes direction: the destinies of the two coaches, both of whom arrived in the summer of 2021 and were welcomed with joy and amazement, cross paths again, this time united by an early farewell .
However, if it was the Friedkin ownership that raised the Portuguese, in Sarri's case it was he himself who pulled back, despite having recently reiterated that he wanted to continue until 2025 (the end of his contract, underlining however (after the Munich trip) that perhaps the cycle was over. On social media, meanwhile, bitterness for the coach's choice predominates. "The second person in 20 years to take responsibility for faults that were not his. You were a beautiful dream that lasted too short but we know it by now that we Lazio people are no longer destined to dream", we read, while others praise the fact that he resigned, giving up a net salary of 5 million. "Resigning in this country is now an archaic gesture. Resigning and leaving a lot of money on the table is now an unknown gesture. For Sarri, farewell to Lazio, if confirmed, would be a 'first time': never since he coached in Serie A (Empoli, Napoli and Juve) had he ended the season early. The team, suddenly orphaned by technical guide, she trained in the gym with the staff and will remain in retreat, but the club must take action and find a new owner for the bench.
For after Sarri, the solutions under consideration at the moment would be two former players: the names being mentioned are those of Tommaso Rocchi (even if the hypothesis of the youth coach seems to have lost strength), and the candidacy of Miro Klose who could ferry the team until the end of the season.
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