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8.17pm – The Lazio coach, Igor Tudor comments in the press conference on the drawn match at San Siro against Inter. Live text by TMW.
8.25pm - Tudor’s press conference begins.
Missed opportunity for Lazio?
“There is nothing lost, today there is a lot gained.”
Maybe you missed us during the restarts?
“Little was lost today, if I can say so. I congratulate the boys, then there is a bit of regret. We were 1-0 and there was little left to go, there is a bit of regret, because coming here and playing against a team that plays football among the 2-3 best in Europe is a lot.”
Kamada in international format, Rovella also very good. Are you aiming for it?
“I usually don’t comment on individual performances, he played very well. To come here and play well you have to have the clarity of being good. He has interesting things, he must and can grow: it’s something I really like. We are working hard, also in the gym, from day one. Then we’ll see: the players always decide where they end up.”
The derby in Rome is very important, the Champions League race is more heated due to the city rivalry. Since you came to Rome, have you understood what the derby is?
“The rivalry is good, I like it. But I can answer as I answered yesterday in the press conference: there are 38 days, three points, one point. The rankings are done like this, then the derbies are good on a mental level, in terms of specific weight, but not of points because they are the same. I accept this, but I shouldn’t have understood anything even from the outside, there is little point to ask me this question, what you say is not true because we are in the eighth race championship and that is only one. There are seven others… Without one there is no other thing.”
Yesterday he talked about distances, for example referring to the previous coach. On the pitch we saw a well-ordered team with the right distances.
“You saw well, we prepared you in this way, a little more careful in this compactness here. If you go with Inter and they open you up with their goalkeeper you don’t see the ball, they get to your goal in five seconds. They are the strongest in the world in this, we wanted to be united and we prepared it like this. I think they interpreted it well, I liked that: there’s a bit of regret but there’s a draw.”
Frustrating draw, given the nature of the goals: will we look for defenders with more aerial size in the future? Do you have any regrets about the final changes?
“I have no regrets, I’m not frustrated. I’m very happy and proud, we’ll see about the tall players with the director, we’ll discuss how it should be. There’s a game to play, we’ll have to see what the others do. We’ll do it this analysis calmly and then I will give you an answer.”
Did you expect more from Luis Alberto and Felipe Anderson? Gila out why?
“Gila couldn’t do it, he asked for the substitution and it was the fifth. Luis and Felipe came on because we wanted to have a little more control, they pushed hard and we weren’t able to keep the ball too much. It’s normal that the Inter push, they are at home, it’s natural. That was the idea, but we didn’t succeed. But that’s okay.”
8.37pm – Tudor’s press conference concluded.