The Turin coach, Ivan Juric, spoke today at a press conference on the eve of the match against Monza. The Granata coach revealed three absences ahead of the match against the red and whites, as well as talking about the condition of Tony Sanabria and defender Alessandro Buongiorno. To conclude, also a consideration on Tameze, who is back at the disposal of the grenade coach.
On the group and on Sanabria: “When you lose players to the national teams you lose contact a bit. Someone played too much, someone too little, someone didn't train well but I'm happy for them. There were only a few of us in recent weeks, Sanabria managed the tendon problem a bit in the first week. Yesterday we all trained together anyway, let's see today”, reports Calciomercato.com
On Monza: “Monza is a team with young talents and experienced players, such as D'Ambrosio, Izzo and others. They're a nice mix. They play good football. They are ahead of us in the standings and this means they are doing better.”
On absences: “Good morning, the other day he suffered a blow to his shoulder, yesterday he wasn't able to train. Let's see today. Ilic, Djidji and Schuurs will be out.”
Still on the group: “I'm very happy for the team, but 90% of the players two years ago were fighting for survival. There are players like Rodriguez, Djidji, Buongiorno, Milinkovic-Savic who two or three years ago were considered bros. Both us and Monza are good teams. We are in a position where we can fight for prestigious goals, all the matches become very important.”
At the moment: “After the first nine games where I saw everything black and thought about other objectives, now we are in a position where we can think about something special. We must try to continue on the path of the last two months where the performances were important. There is no pressure in my opinion, there was three years ago when they were playing for salvation and Immobile took the penalty in Rome. Now we have to take advantage of the moment and live it well, happily, without pressure.”
Su Vlasic: “Vlasic always plays in the same position, he has skills and is growing a lot in the positions he has to occupy on the pitch.”
With Gineitis: “He was in the national team until a few days ago, he has just returned, we'll see. The choice whether to let him play or not will depend more on that.”
Su Okereke: “In attack, Okereke and Sanabria are both solid options. It depends on how we want to approach the race. In Udine we needed Zapata more at the center of the attack and we chose David, I'm still happy with Okereke, he had played little before but has always worked well. The strength of the team at the moment is given by the players who did the least and presented themselves very well.”
They are the Thames: “Tameze is fine, he did the full week. He can play. But I don't know the lineup yet, let's see today.”
