Allegri has the flu, Juventus with Lazio without the coach on the bench – Corriere.it

A flu syndrome stop Maximilian Merrywho won’t be on the bench at the Olimpico against there Lazio in the match at 20.45. This time, therefore, also the technician ends up on the unavailable list Juventus.

Little warnings at the press conference, then the situation worsened on the afternoon of Friday 7 April. Hence the decision not to leave with the team for Rome. In its place his trusted deputy, Marco Landucci, will be on the bench, already finished on the bench this season following Allegri’s suspension against Monza. If health conditions should improve, then the Juventus coach will watch the game on TV and try to keep in touch with his second-in-command.

Curious to think that in the past, the 2019-2020 season, the same thing had happened – again at Juventus – to Maurizio Sarri, today at Lazio and tonight’s opponent of the black and whites. At the time, the current Biancoceleste coach had missed his league debut due to pneumonia. He had been sidelined for two games, making his debut in the third round against Fiorentina.

Massimiliano Allegri’s goal is to make up for Thursday, to be there in the first leg of the Europa League quarter-finals against Sporting Lisbon. In the conference, Allegri had analyzed what happened, with a final brawl, in the Coppa Italia match against Inter: There are no comments to make because the competent bodies decide. We have to think only about playing, let’s not get distracted by these things; we need to be better at keeping calm. What happened on the pitch are bad things that shouldn’t happen, both among the players and among those who arrived later, because someone arrived from above…, his words referring to the Nerazzurri manager Dario Baccin, who intervened in the tumult that continued in the locker room and was fined 20 thousand euros. Coaches and managers must always set a good example indeed a very good example. I also understand that, unfortunately, there are levels…. Important words. Then the flu didn’t give him a break.