…INJURY REPORT

Berardi and Castillejo are still injured, Pedersen is close to returning, and Obiang is in doubt because yesterday he left before the end of training and today he trained separately.

…PREPARATION

You have to do the two-three phases of the game well, you have to know when to attack, when to change the game, you have to know how to behave in the offensive phase and then when you attack you still have to be balanced, it's true that you have to bring 4-5-6 players to put the opponents in difficulty in the offensive phase but you have to maintain your balance when you lose the ball, and when the opponents start the action you have to do that as a team, with attention, order and aggression.

…WE MUST WIN

I like the people at Sassuolo Calcio in the team, what gives me confidence are the people we train every day, because every day we talk to each other, we train, and we see that they are guys who care a lot, they train well, and perhaps precisely because they are so serious they feel the difficulty of the moment even more, what gives me the most confidence are the people we train, this gives us strength and confidence.

...ABOUT THE MATCH

I think it will be a different match compared to the one against Milan, Lecce makes attention, humility, sacrifice, its best qualities. Then they have players of skill and quality, they give you little or nothing, and if you concede something, they are very dangerous. It will certainly be a very different match to the one against Milan.

...ABOUT THE MATCH

More or less the conditions are the same as Lecce-Empoli. I'm focused on us, on our ranking, on what we have to do. Sassuolo has quality and dribbling ability, players who need to be defended as a team.

...RAMADANI OUT

We have various solutions available. Remaining more or less as we have been in these matches or playing three in midfield... these are things that can happen within the match. Banda is also out. It's very sorry. He is among the key players of Lecce...

...IMPORTANT MATCH

Last week's results were sensational. The seven teams in the running are all alive. All the coaches have the belief that they can save themselves and the awareness that it will be tough. The survival quota depends a lot on the survival battles. At 32 points, Lecce is certainly not safe because it means defeat against Sassuolo, Udinese and Cagliari. It could be between 34 and 36 points, but these are journalistic projections. I don't talk about it in the locker room, it would be a big mistake.