(ANSA) – MILAN, AUGUST 25 – AC Milan and Atalanta, two of the eight leaders of the league, will take on Torino and Frosinone tomorrow for a second date, during which Rome will visit another of the leaders, Hellas Verona ”, and Monza – get Empoli in other previews.
Stefano Pioli’s Rossonero beat Bologna away and will face the public tomorrow, trying to support his ambition to fight for the Scudetto.
Approximately 72,000 spectators are expected to come together to accompany him against Croat’s grenade Ivan Juric, who will try to lift a goal after a goalless draw at home against top Cagliari.
Milan’s victory cannot be delayed as the next eight rounds will see him face various title contenders such as Roma, Inter, Lazio and Juventus, as well as champions Napoli.
Pioli warned that they should be “very careful because Torino is a well-organized team that has won four of their last five away games”.
They were pleased with the replenishment, including the Italian-Argentinean Marco Pellegrino, who will take a place on the bench along with another newcomer, American Yunus Musa.
“Most of the veterans have received very well newcomers who are trying to learn,” DT commented, reiterating that “he would have preferred the transfer market to end before the start of the championship.”
His colleague Jurich stressed: “We have a good group, with good players and interesting young people. I hope that none of them leave and someone else comes in, although a zero result in the market would be a good result.”
Juric will have Paraguayan Antonio Sanabria with whom he hopes to improve the attacking efficiency he failed to show against Cagliari, although on defense he will have to watch out for Frenchman Olivier Giroud, Portuguese Rafael Leão and American Christian Pulisic.
Another attempt to extend their good start is Atalanta winning Sassuolo as a guest and tomorrow’s home ground for promoted Frosinone, who surprised Napoli early in the game but ended up losing.
Gian Piero Gasperini also couldn’t get around the issue of the transfer market: “I’ll raise a toast next week when it closes” after the departure of Nicolò Cambiaga and Viktor Kovalenko on loan at Empoli.
Without a solution to Colombian Duvan Zapata, who would have been destined for Fulham and would be another victim in Atalanta, which is pulsing in the Europa League draw, in which Gasperini aims to “play a big role after a year without playing in the tournament”. European level.
De Zapata commented: “I didn’t put up any obstacles to prevent him from leaving. If negotiations haven’t materialized yet, it’s not my fault. He’s fine, he’s playing well and he has all my confidence.”
Belgian Charles De Ketelare arrived from Milan to celebrate a goal against Sassuolo.
“He has to keep working and growing,” Gasperini said as he focused on the match against Frosinone that “puts Napoli in trouble and keeps us focused.”
His colleague Eusebio Di Francesco will try to break the streak of Frosinone, who has never been able to celebrate a victory in the match against Atalanta and has not even scored goals in six previous matches.
“He is one of the most annoying opponents you have to face tactically. He has a great mentality, and we have to give our best not only for 70 minutes, as happened with Napoli,” he explained.
Di Francesco praised Gasperini, “a coach whom I recognized as the best in his category three times and whose genius I discovered over time because at first I did not understand his philosophy of play,” he admitted.
Uruguayan Jaime Báez, who performed well against Napoli, is announced as Frosinone’s starter who will go in search of his first points against Atalanta, who will have Zapata from the start, as well as Argentine goalkeeper Juan Musso, while the Colombian Luis Muriel will come on as a substitute alongside Italian-Brazilian Rafael Toloi and his compatriot Ederson.
Argentinean Paulo Dybala, a key Roma player who conceded him in a draw with Salernitana at the Olimpico on the first day, is ready for the premiere.
Dybala, who has served his suspension, will be on the pitch from the start against Hellas Verona, buoyed by their victory as a guest at Empoli at the start.
The bench will not include Portuguese coach José Mourinho, who continues to purge him and today is encouraged by the possible arrival of the Belgian Romelu Lukaku, who will arrive on loan from Chelsea.
While the leaders determine this operation, Roma will come out with Dybala and Lorenzo Pellegrini, another one who is returning to the squad, where the Portuguese Renato Sanchez arrived, absent tomorrow due to muscle disease.
“Better not risk it,” Mourinho concluded, pleased that the “Pearl” would return to the squad (in which Leandro Paredes was announced as a replacement) to accompany Andrea Belotti, who celebrated a failed double in his debut debut. enough to defeat Salernitana, who turned the situation around with the help of two Antonio Candreva.
“Today we have to take from fifth to eighth place, and if we want to play in the next Champions League, it will not be an easy task,” – admitted “Memorandum”.
Inter, Milan, Napoli and Juventus are the teams that fight for the title, and any team that fights for this goal is in the top four,” he concluded.
“The idea is to come back from Verona with three points,” concluded the Portuguese, who will return from suspension seven days later, when Rome hosts Milan at the Olympics.
The two who will go in search of recovery are Monza and Empoli, who were defeated on their first date.
“We have to take advantage of the positive moment we had against Inter,” explained manager Raffaele Palladino, who said he had been working on correcting mistakes all week and assured his team needed to be more cynical in attack.
Palladino also spoke about the transfer market and admitted that he would like to improve, especially offensively, given that Empoli are opponents to be careful with, not to mention that they lost on the first date.”
Paolo Zanetti’s team lost goalkeeper Elia Caprile, who suffered an ankle injury and was out of the game for at least two months, to which he will be replaced by Samuele Perisan, “who will have a great opportunity and I hope he takes advantage of it.” predicted DT.
The arrival of Cambiaga and Atalanta’s Ukrainian Kovalenko will give Zanetti more opportunities, who warned of the danger posed by Monza, “a team that knew how to put together a competitive squad and has a great coach.”
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