Il tecnico granata Paolo Vanoli ha presentato così Torino-Udinese, partita in programma lunedì alle ore 12.30
Torino-Udinese will be staged on Monday at 12:30 pm. After this morning’s training, coach Paolo Vanoli presented the Easter Monday match in a press conference as follows. “It was a long week, we had time to recover our energies. We do not recover Lazaro, although I hope we are close to returning. Until the end we will try to recover Vlasic, the edema is decreasing, let’s see if we can recover him. Ilic took a foot stomp in training, we will see in the next few hours but there should be no problems.”
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What do you think of Runjaic’s work? “He has done a very good job. Udinese in recent years have always saved themselves in the end, instead this year they did well. Udinese is a physical team that has inserted technical players, they have a strong midfield. It is true that they come from four negative results but we will have to be careful, just as we will have to be careful with set pieces.”
What kind of game should we expect? “A tough game, against a team that will engage us physically. We will have to be careful on set pieces, not like what happened in the first leg. Unlike Como we will have to be lucid and cynical.”
What do you think of Zapata’s renewal? “An important gesture on the part of the club that also makes it clear, however, that Duvan wants to give us great satisfaction. We will just have to wait for him because he had this bad injury.”
What is the timetable for Zapata’s recovery? “I’m not the one to chart the horizons, his process is going well, he is alternating strength and corrective on the field, the hope is to have him in training camp at least partially, if not completely, serving with us. You have to have patience but he is progressing very well.”
If Toro finished tenth would you be satisfied? “I want to play game after game and see what we have done at the end of the championship. Now we want to do well next game and bring home the three points, now I’m focused on that, at the end of the championship we’ll see.”
Casadei had a slight downturn, how is he now? “We can’t expect a player to come in and score goals every Sunday. He had a bit of a downturn from a physical point of view but I could expect it. We took him because on becoming a beacon of the team in the future, the call-up to the national team also proves it.”
Do you fear Udinese’s anger or your team’s relaxation more? “Udinese’s anger, because they come from a series of games with negative results.”
Gineitis we saw him a little bit in decline “These are things you say, I complimented him after Como. He is the only player who has the characteristics to replace Lazaro. In my opinion compared to the game with Verona, where he had actually struggled more, also because it was the first time he played that role, against Como who played with a four-man defense he did a good performance. He is available to do everything, I like these players.”
Do you already have a clear idea about the players you have for the future as well? “We will do the balances at the end, also because I would not be consistent with what I say on a daily basis, that every game is a final and we have to give 100 percent. We are focused on Udinese because we know that we come from a disappointing result in Como and we want to redeem ourselves.”
How is Schuurs’ recovery going? “He’s doing well, we wanted to have him back because it’s right for them to experience the locker room. It’s good to have him back because then I can talk to him, I’ve seen him charged up, you know what he’s going through and having his teammates close I think can help him. He’s a great player.”
Sosa has played less in the last period, can he be used as a high outside? “No, I think cem can play either in a five-man midfield or as a fullback in a four-man defense. For the high outside role I don’t see him, there you need players who are good at jumping the man and more offensive.
May 4 is approaching, will it be Zapata or Ricci who will read the names of the Grande Torino players at Superga? “It will be the captain, so Duvan.”
The two defeats in 2025 came when Ricci was missing, is that a coincidence? “When I played in Parma, we were missing Boghossian and losing. It’s a question of balance, even the absence of Valentino is heavy. But I don’t look at these things here, we lost two games with two ingenuities that don’t depend on Ricci’s absence, on Sunday we were also unlucky on the goal cancelled out for Ilic and in Bologna we lost on an own goal in the 90′. Fortunately he’s back now anyway.”
Torino is one of the slowest teams to restart with the ball between their feet, are you working on this “Regardless of the module we are a team that has few insertion players, which is also why we went for Casadei. It is something to improve on but we also have to work on the characteristics of the players he has. However, we have improved on these statistics, there are teams that are strong in the open field, others more dribbling, it depends on the characteristics of the team.”
Should Vlasic not be there, can he play with the two forwards or can it be Karamoh’s game? “I am thinking about various solutions based on the characteristics of the players we have, in Como I wanted to play with the two forwards to also give a message to the team and say that we wanted to get a result. Without Vlasic there can be various solutions.”
It will be played on Easter Monday, did you expect this change even in Italy, which has opened up to games on holidays? “I was lucky enough to have experience in England, there on holidays there is more desire to go to the stadium, in Italy this culture is perhaps less, maybe you are more with your family.”
Scandinavian teams are also doing good things in the European cups, why do the observers scan that market so little? “It is not true that they are seen then. When you go to get a player you also have to evaluate various aspects, the cultural aspect is very important, if you go to get a player from a northern European team and bring him to Italy this then also has to adapt to a different soccer. Today, however, all clubs know all the players, scouting has improved. Twenty years ago Udinese was ahead of everyone, my brother used to work there, they used to watch videotapes of all the players from all over the world, now it is instead something that everyone does, there are also more means.”
“I take this opportunity to extend Easter wishes to all of you and all of our fans who have always supported us.”
Paolo Vanoli.
