CAGLIARI (ITALPRESS) – “Lazio is a team of great quality and very dynamic, which can attack depth well on the outsides and plays from the chain. It’s a team that plays, so there is a chance that they will leave you some extra space. In the first leg we played a great game, we have maximum conviction in our ideas,” this is how coach Davide Nicola opened the press conference presenting the Cagliari-Lazio match. The Rossoblù coach, a little more than 24 hours before the meeting with the biancocelesti, finds himself having to prepare for a match with the market closing, where there have been many exits among the Sardinian ranks but very few entries: “I publicly thank both Lapadula, Azzi and Wieteska: they have given so much to the group and to me, also humanly, I wish them the best because they are three real men with whom we shared part of the project, I will always have great memories of them. Four players left and one arrived: the club knows very well what we need, they will do their job and there is ample trust on my part.” At the end of the match against Torino last week, Nicola had pointed out a team fatigue that had affected his team’s performance. Seven days later, how is his group doing? “We are a team that doesn’t always move in the right way often running more and also running on empty. We spent a lot of energy in the matches before Torino, this is also a challenge for us because we have to be able to stay inside the game, picking up as much as you can even if you are not brilliant at your best.” Zito Luvumbo, away from the field since Dec. 14, will be absent once again: “Luvumbo’s was not a serious injury, but not trivial for an ankle sprain like his. However, he has already started doing some technique again, but I don’t know the recovery time yet. He will definitely need a mini-training. Marin has had a fever but I will take him with us.” Curiosity then returned to the market: “You have to figure out how to invest your resources, the idea is to replace those who have left. Sanabria? I do not know if it is possible or feasible, we will evaluate. The fact remains is that I am convinced that the working group is of great moral and technical quality.”
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