«We know that we are playing for Serie A, it's up to us. We have three difficult games but we are ready." The rossoblù sleeveless like a bulletproof vest, Claudio Ranieri sounds the charge and launches the challenge to Milan from the "Crai Sport Center" in Assemini: «A great team awaits us and I don't think they are conditioned by criticism or external factors, on the contrary . Also because there are so many of those champions that anyone can solve the match at any time." Translated: "We will have to play an excellent match."
It will not be a decisive turn in the fight for salvation. «If anything, it will be the last one and I hope», the obviously annoyed Cagliari coach is keen to point out, «that the League puts everyone on the same time. And not who before and who after, as he did on this third to last day."
Once again there will be several injured players, but Ranieri makes a virtue of necessity and will not choose the lineup based on the previous or subsequent match. «I just think about this match», he underlines categorically, «with the eleven best players at the moment, the ones who I think can make me look good».
Among these there may not be Makoumbou, who suffered a knee contusion just today in training. How is Mina doing? «Like the other weeks. He did a lot of work on his own and only today started training with us." In short, the Colombian is ready for a new battle. As well as the forward fleet, finally complete. «Clearly they are not all one hundred percent», Ranieri points out, «but having them all will allow me to have more solutions from the bench during the match in progress».
The final rush has begun and Cagliari is there, they also demonstrated it against Lecce. "Until the expulsion we were having a great match." Even in difficulties, the team spirit still emerged. «Precisely what allowed us to rise from Serie B to Serie A. Because the team has character, a sense of self-sacrifice and an important psycho-physical preparation».
