Marco Baroni Not Seeking Revenge Against Inter Milan, Admits Injured Lazio Star Is Difficult To Replace

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·25 de febrero de 2025

Marco Baroni Not Seeking Revenge Against Inter Milan, Admits Injured Lazio Star Is Difficult To Replace

Lazio coach Marco Baroni insists his team wants to do well in the Coppa Italia, but exacting vengeance is not on their minds.

The Background

The first time these two sides met this season, the Nerazzurri massacred their hosts by beating them 6-0 in front of their loyal supporters at the Stadio Olimpico. As we all know, Inter arguably boast the strongest squad in Italy, which is also reflected by the players’ ratings on EA FC. Speaking of the most popular football video game on the globe, you can now Buy EA FC accounts and give yourself a head start over your opponents.

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New Competition, New Chance

That being said, the size and strength of the opponent can never justify such a woeful scoreline. Therefore, Lazio will have the opportunity to reclaim some of the pride lost in that disastrous showing when they take on Simone Inzaghi’s band at San Siro on Tuesday night. The two sides will clash heads in the headliner of the Coppa Italia quarter-finals.

Marco Baroni Insists Lazio Not Focused on Revenge

But in his pre-match press conference (via La Lazio Siamo Noi), Baroni urged his players to remain focused on the task and distance themselves from all revenge talk.

The Coppa Italia is an important competition, so we want to do well, we know it will be a difficult match but we want to get through to the next round. These are competitions where it is not important to be present, but to get to the end. These are the matches that help you grow, they give depth to the team. It’s not so much a sense of revenge. That match had two sides, the best 25 minutes of our season and the second half, also due to forced substitutions, the ugliest. The team didn’t change its approach during the match, hence the terrible result. It was very useful for us, but it will be a different match. Inter is the team to beat in Italy and in Europe, we are aware of that, but we want to put in an important performance.

Missing Taty Castellanos

Taty Castellanos remains out with an injury, while Tijjani Noslin failed to make up for the Argentine’s absence in Venezia. Therefore, Baroni admits his main striker is difficult to replace.

There are players who change teams, but it must not be an alibi. There are guys who are working hard and we want to continue along this path even in Taty’s absence. It is clear that we want to have him back as soon as possible, but now each of us must give something more.