With a defeat against Lecce to leave behind, Walter Mazzarri and his Torino squad are looking toward their next match against Sampdoria. Here are his statements to the press:
"Tomorrow I want a rapid and aggressive team. It's the minimum after a match like the one against Lecce, which was possibly the worst once since I've been here. After the match against Lecce, I took the responsibility for how my players entered the match. If the same players beat Atalanta 11 days before played the way they did against Lecce, it means that between me and my staff something didn't go the way it should have."
"Sampdoria has players of very high qualities. It's true, they still haven't obtained a point in Serie A, but three matches are not indicitive of the team's value. It'll be a dangerous match, the blucerchiato, especially on their pitch, is not easy to take on."
"Unfortunately on the defensive side, everything has happened to us this year. Djidji is still not at his best, then he needed to accelerate his recovery. Lyanco got hurt twice, and just came back. Nkoulou has problems that everyone knows and isn't in condition. The only ones that have trained with continuity are Izzo and Bremer. If the defense is in difficulty, then so is the whole squad."
"Changes? There's nothing to do in terms of turnover. Had we done well against Lecce, I could've reconfirmed all 11. In the case of Milan, we can begin to think about this aspect."
