Lazio, Inzaghi challenges Pippo’s Benevento: “I’m sorry, but I have to beat you”

For Simone Inzaghi it is above all the challenge of the heart. Because opposite is Brother Pippo’s Benevento. “For ninety minutes we will be rivals – smiles the Lazio coach – then we will embrace each other as usual. Regardless of how it ends, it will continue to be exciting to face Pippo. It will be a huge satisfaction to compete against each other in Serie A (there is a precedent two years ago seasons, a Bologna-Lazio in which Lazio won 2-0, ed). It will be for us, for our parents, for our children. “Too bad the points serve us both …” Both we and they are veterans of undeserved defeats. They will want to make up for it, but we must also start adding points to improve our ranking. The Champions League has taken a lot of energy from us, but now we have to make up lost ground ”.

In an emergency

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However, Simone will be forced to face the derby with his family in a reworked formation. Acerbi is definitely out (the exact extent of his injury will be known today, a 2-3 week stoppage is feared), Leiva and Milinkovic also probably won’t make it, having been battered out of the match against Verona. And the laps of Luis Alberto, Patric and Luiz Felipe are not safe (you have to summon all three, but it is likely that each one will start from the bench). The Acerbi shutdown affects, among other things, a department, Defense, which is not yet in good health. In fact, the passive goals are not few – admits Inzaghi-. Especially in the Olympico things are not going well. We feel the absence of our public, but this should not be an alibi. Next, Inzaghi comments on the Champions draw that he has reserved for the European champions Bayern for Lazio: “We will face the reigning champion team, it will be a great motivation to grow and do well. We will try to reach this appointment of the best way”. shapes “.