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12.15 – Torino’s 2024 will end in Friuli, the Granata are looking for redemption after the home defeat against Bologna. Away from home, however, Sanabria and his teammates are fresh from the four points won against Genoa and Empoli and that is where they want to start again. Soon, from the conference room of the Olimpico Grande Torino stadium, the coach Paolo Vanoli will present tomorrow’s lunch match against Udinese. Follow the live text on Tuttomercatoweb.comthe conference is scheduled to start at 12.30.
12.38pm – Vanoli’s press conference begins
How is the team?
“We have recovered Milinkovic, who had an abdominal problem, and Njie, who suffered a knee injury yesterday. But they are both with us. Against Bologna we showed that we are there on a physical level, we know the importance of this match : there are important points in the last two of the first leg, we have the focus on Udine”
What do Udinese expect?
“They come from an important result in Florence, their culture is to find structural and physical players. Attention will be needed, the difficulty will be on the corners: almost all of them are over 1.90 metres, then Thauvin scored three goals and has quality. Lucca too is confirming. For me they are a complete team, it’s not a surprise but on a physical level they will put a lot of effort into it.”
A summary of the first months at Toro
“We have to look ahead, build something with a future perspective. A new cycle has begun: in the first part there were positive and negative results, we are finding a new concept. We didn’t think we would find so many difficulties, but it’s also due to the journey. The objectives change, now we focus on reaching important points as soon as possible”
Can Ilic help in the offensive phase?
“He has the qualities to do it. What he is doing is his ideal role: we have many players with important qualities who can skip the man and put in the last ball, like Vlasic. We cannot dwell on qualitative issues, but we need soul and strength: let’s leave the qualities aside, but we must put Toro and the team in front”
What do you ask of the fifth in Udine?
“To do the defensive phase well, you have to attack because then their fifths follow you. But they also have to do one-on-ones, we’re improving on that: what I want is for the fifths to attack more to force the others onto the defensive”
How is Walukiewicz?
“He had a respiratory crisis against Bologna, we will evaluate him and I hope to recover him for the next match”
How important is tomorrow from 1 to 10?
“11. You laughed at me a bit when I said that saving points were the priority, but it means that I’m not stupid. In these two matches, first in Udine on a difficult pitch against a complicated team and he showed it , there are important points like in Empoli”
How are the attackers?
“There is no one who does better when he enters or not, everyone must give more even in the scoring area. It’s not true that you don’t shoot on goal, but you have to get there with malice: against Bologna we had a great opportunity with Karamoh, we we had potential opportunities like that of Sanabria who was not reactive in pressing…There we must look for the difference, we are a team that has shown that we have players who can enter the game immediately and others who need more time in the squares , who shoots and who jumps, must have the conviction to score goals”
Which player would you steal from Udinese for his Torino?
“Nobody. Absolutely”
You are forced to change again on defense: how will you design the department?
“We’ve had quite a few suspensions and injuries…Whoever goes on the pitch has to give 110%. You can’t lose against Bologna for a mistake like that, let’s roll up our sleeves and move forward”