Lazio, Sarri blurts out and casts shadows on calendar

Lazio, Sarri blurts out and casts shadows on calendar: “I talked to a statistician friend of mine…”

Instant tension for Maurizio Sarri on the eve of his Lazio’s league opener at home to Lecce. The Biancocelesti coach claimed that it will be a challenge to repeat last season’s Champions League qualification: “The league is difficult, there are teams better equipped than us. Last year many wasted a lot of energy in the cups, this year I don’t think it will be repeated. We want to overturn the values on paper, which remain the same as last season, so we have to do something that goes to the limits of our capabilities to fight for Champions.”

On newcomers, he warns, “They are almost all back, especially way Rovella, who is coming from a small injury, and Kamada, who is coming from a period of inactivity. Only Isaksen at the leg level seems to me to be in condition.”

The controversy over market rumors: “It’s a scandal that the market is open with the championship starting. Now I don’t start talking about the market 24 hours before a game. We have not made a law to prevent soccer in Italy from being in the hands of merchants. With the soccer market open 10 days the prosecutors would count less and less. I’m already pissed off that we’re going to play tomorrow with players still on the market. Besides, 75 percent of the news you have written about me concerning the market have been hoaxes.”

Then the Capitolini coach cast shadows on the Serie A calendar: “I spoke with a statistician friend of mine, playing four away games and the first three against Juve, Napoli and Milan is practically impossible. I think it’s not random. It is unbelievable that a team that finishes second faces three teams from the top five in the first three days.”