Fiorentina, Vincenzo Italiano calls for additional effort

Vincenzo Italiano wants to keep dreaming big

Fiorentina arrives to the challenge against Torino on Friday at the 'Franchi' (kickoff at 6:30 p.m.) strong du two consecutive victories, against Hellas Verona and Monza, preceded by two other useful results in the league, the tris at Salernitana and the draw with Roma. An important roster, which puts the Viola at -1 from fourth place: Vincenzo Italiano wants to continue dreaming.

"We used three days to recharge our batteries – said the Karlsruhe-born coach in the press conference -, we recovered a couple of players and prepared ourselves to face a tough opponent like Torino. Until Christmas we played well, we gave ourselves a good ranking: our goal è to dream big again, feeding the dream match after match".

On Friday's opponent: "The pitfalls are the same as always, Torino is doing a great championship and for us it will be a difficult test, to be faced with concentration. Compared to the game against Monza we recover Bonaventura and Martinez Quarta, for the rest, apart from those who è stopped and will be for a while yet' (the reference è to Nico Gonzalez, Gaetano Castrovilli and Dodò ed.) we are all there".

"We are ready, we want to give our fans another great satisfaction to close 2023. As for the atmosphere, I hope to find the frame of the public that always supports us" concluded Italiano, who in his third season as coach of the lily-white team aims to improve on the seventh place in 2021-22 and the eighth in the following year.