«I want a team like that of Salerno, attached to the result». Without fear, Ivan Juric frames the super challenge against Milan thinking more of him than of the opponent who will play a piece of the Scudetto at the Grande Torino tomorrow night. He wants a big game, the Croatian coach, the trophy still missing from the grenade season. And a practical Taurus. «Tomorrow we will try again – his position -, against Inter we came very close since we were joined only in the recovery. Against the Rossoneri we will do the usual, we will face them in our own way, clearly it will have to be a Toro at best against a very strong team ».
A perfect Taurus is needed, even if the defection on the eve is not the best way to start: Mandragora has had a muscle problem and will not be available. We will try to recover him for Lazio, while in his place the baby Ricci is ready, very close to his third game as a starter. The return of Pobega will confirm the Under 21 team alongside Lukic, while the Milan-owned midfielder runs towards a place on the trocar. «It’s one of the options – admits Juric -. Meanwhile Praet will be back before the end of the championship: we’ll talk about it in a month ». In goal Berisha, but now it is no longer a novelty.
There will be the record attendance at the former Comunale, in a challenge that is worth much more for Milan than for Toro. For the grenades it could be an opportunity to start testing their strength for next season, but the coach does not make calculations. «I’m focused on this championship – he says – you have to finish well and then it shows. A lot of public? I honestly say it will be full of AC Milan fans. In any case, it will remain a very positive season compared to the last two. But even I at a certain moment believed in something more, that we could make a huge leap. There is a hint of disappointment from this point of view ».
Instead, Toro broke up just when he approached the Europe train thanks to the successes of the beginning of the year with Fiorentina and Sampdoria. «I am convinced that we have been penalized by the episodes – Juric again -, but I am also aware that the group does not have the quality of Fiorentina and Sassuolo, but not even of Verona in attack. The biggest difference is that they win some games easily, but we can’t. Too bad, because in the direct confrontation we make it, but in the long run we lack what they have ».