AT THE OLIMPICO WITH PRIDE1/31/2009 3:53:00 PMOn the eve of the away match in Rome, Carlo Ancelotti spoke during the press conference about the delicate clash against the Biancocelesti: “We shall find a warm environment, it will be a delicate match.”
MILANELLO – These are the declarations of Carlo Ancelotti during the press conference on the eve of Lazio-Milan scheduled tomorrow evening at 8.45pm at the Olimpico stadium of Rome:
ON TOMORROW EVENING’S CLASH AGAINST LAZIO“Lazio arrive to tomorrow’s game in a moment of difficulty and we will find a warm environment. They could have the opportunity to redeem themselves, because playing against a big team like Milan, in such a moment, can give a lot of motivation to do well. It will therefore be a very delicate match.”
ON THE DRAW AGAINST GENOA AND THE MOMENT OF THE TEAM“Against Genoa we have lost two points on the road and tomorrow we will have the chance to recover them. The team is fine and is proving it in some game situations, we must only succeed to manage better the moments in which we control less the game. This team is not built to play a defensive game and therefore when we slow down the rhythm we suffer the game of our opponents.”
ON THE RAPPORT BETWEEN SEEDORF AND THE PUBLIC“I’m sorry that an important player like Seedorf, who gave a lot for this shirt, is not given the right recognition, but we all know that in football recognition does not matter. Even now Clarence is doing well and we’re sorry to see prevention against him.”
ON BECKHAM AND A POSSIBLE ADDITION ON THE UEFA CUP LIST“We will hand the ‘Uefa List’ tomorrow evening by midnight. An eventual addition of Beckham to the list would be our right and not a forced one. The choice of the players to add to the list is a delicate one and will be made by taking into consideration also the fact that Gattuso is proving that he is recovering earlier than expected; Nesta is recovering and Borriello could return in time. Therefore it will be a careful evaluation in consideration also of the psychological affect on the players.”
ON THE INDIVIDUAL PLAYERS“Bonera is still feverish, but he’s still coming to Rome with us in the hope that the fever goes away.
Borriello: he’s a player who we’re missing, because for the characteristics that he has, we have aimed a lot on him and we continue to do so. Unfortunately he was hit bit an infinite series of injuries and bad luck and he will not return before one month.
Ronaldinho: this week he trained well. He is surely sorry that he did not start from the beginning, but he proved to work well this week and is ready to play.
Shevchenko: he is working well, but he was used little because during this period the game of Pato and Kaka in the offensive phase satisfied me a lot and I did not want to change the game in attack.
Nesta is working well and in these fifteen days he did not have any problem. Next week he will start with the direction changes and to work with the ball. He could be on the pitch around February 20 and from February 10 he should resume the work with the team.
Beckham: today he had a reduced training session, we shall evaluate his condition tomorrow because he is recovering from some tiredness.”
ON THE TRANSFER MARKET“Even when Beckham will leave, the midfield role is covered because we have Flamini available and eventually there is the possibility of moving Jankulovski forward like it happened before. Therefore we did not deem necessary to go in the transfer market of January, also because there is optimism around Nesta’s return.”
ON THE GAP FROM INTER IN THE LEAGUE“There have been many games in which we could have ended the clash before and we did not succeed. Running after a team is always more tiring than maintaining the distance because there is a lot of pressure. You cannot get wrong games, but the important thing is that the team continues to play like it did in the past games in which I liked the way we performed.”
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