Marco Baroni, Lazio coachspoke to the club’s official channels after the 1-1 friendly draw at Southampton: “Tonight was a real match, played with the right attitude and compactness. These are difficult matches, in my opinion there was a foul on Isaksen under our bench for their goal but we played with personality, the mentality we are looking for. I’m happy. We need to bring out the collective, play together, be in the match. Dele Bashiru didn’t come on because he had a tooth operation, but we had a few defections. I wanted to bring in Castovilli, Gila. They need to get into shape straight away. The group is growing. We managed with personality, we attacked, we managed the duels well”.
What information do you take home with you?
“In the next game we will increase the minutes of players who have played less, we are waiting for the imminent entrance of Tavares. We must not think about the starting 11 but about the team. They must all be ready to come in, this is the mentality I want to give to this team. I don’t like positional football, the evolution of football sees dynamism, pressure, this takes away the plays from the opponent. We work for this, the boys are following, they realize that it is better to run forward than backward. Balance is needed but the team did well. They were physical, they have rhythm, we were always in the game even when there was the expulsion”.
What a feat Castellanos.
“Taty scored, but I underlined that ball that didn’t go in. A player like him has to score. We had chances, like with Lazzari but also many others. We have to attack the area, the goal, we have to shoot”