Sari: I'm not interested in pub stories, Barcelona won the same way for 10 years

The timing is not pleasant, but tomorrow against Celtic (8.45 PM EAT), Lazio have the opportunity to get even closer to the Champions League round of 16 and thus in some way improve the impression related to the poor form and poor placement in the Serie A table.

Mauricio Sarri is under a lot of pressure, compounded by last weekend's defeat to Salernitana.

The Sky Blues are in 11th place in the Italian championship, and in Group E in competition with Atletico Madrid and Feyenoord, they hold the second position.

"We lost because of lack of determination and superficiality, in a bad way. The team has to respond, but not with words, but with force," Sarri said ahead of the match with Celtic.

There were obviously meetings at the club level.

"The director made a good intervention, I liked it. We have to reset, there is no longer any old or new guard of players. We choose the best without problems. There is no need to talk about tactics if the attitude is wrong. Tactics are useful if you play on the same level as your opponents. If you're not up to par, there's no tactic that can work."

The public complains that Lazio's tactics are predictable.

"Those are clichés that don't make sense. Barcelona always won in the same way for 10 years. Those are pub stories that absolutely interest me," Sarri added.

The result against Celtic can change a lot.

"Celtic is a good team, they have a good rhythm, decent technical qualities. It is not easy to beat them, we must not be fooled by their negative results away from home because those were games due to numerical inferiority. They are a good team, it will certainly be a complicated game. Now we are getting ready for the match, I said what I had, now it's time to regroup, with great hope that the atmosphere in the Champions League will bring us something more," Sarri concluded.