Igor Tudorcoach of Lazio, after beating Hellas Verona spoke on the microphone post-match DAZN: “I’m satisfied because it was a very difficult match, we knew it, we prepared it like a final because it comes at the end of a close period of matches. We started well, then they put themselves on the line, with five, and it became more difficult. It was a good match because there was mental fatigue and the players went onto the pitch motivated, to play for their lives. They put important values on the field.”
How close is this Lazio to your ideas?
“We will have to work this summer from this point of view, I think that we like many of the players already present in the squad and can play this type of football. Then we need to improve, as everyone does. Previously this team played with four, it played a football of a certain type, now there are fifths and we do things differently. But I see people having fun, applying themselves to playing this football. It’s a pleasure to coach this team.”
What room for improvement does Castellanos have? Can he be a permanent starter for Lazio?
“I don’t know, it’s a difficult question. He’s a boy with great quality. We talked about it a lot in the previous days. Sometimes he thinks too much, he thinks too much about goals. The goal is to make him more carefree. He has the desire to attack the goal. space and movement which I really like. He can improve in front of the goal. But he is a generous boy, he always gives everything and this is a luxury because not all attackers are like that.”
Kamada and Luis Alberto among the best.
“Luis is always in the most important plays, he likes to touch the ball. Kamada is also capable of going forward. There is a good affinity between the two. And then there is quality, especially in the last 20-25 metres.”
What work did you do on Kamada?
“We didn’t do anything. He’s a player who was perhaps less suited to Sarri’s type of football and more suited to this type of football. I like him, he has a 10-man mentality, he can play up front, he can play in front of the defence. He has a computer in his head, if only all players were like that. I would like to have 10 Daichi in the team, but I think all the coaches would like it.”
Do you believe in the Champions League?
“Making calculations is of no use. We need to think game by game, as we coaches like to say. There are four games, few points, so we need to make as few mistakes as possible. But we are on the right path and we’ll play it out until the end.” in the end”.