Sunday opponent: Sampdoria.

It is important to approach the game with concentration and heart. It will be an opportunity for many players to demonstrate their quality also in view of the return of the second leg with United. It will therefore be important for everyone to play, but above all for Fazio, Kumbulla, Bruno Peres, Santon, Villar, Carles Perez and Borjita. Game that we can and must win.

Ranieri lines up the 442. They attack on the right with Damsgaard or Candreva (both mainly right-footed so from the right wing with more aptitude for the cross, although Candreva is also dangerous with his left, and on the left with Augello, with Bereszynski making defensive phase on the right and with Jankto (very good in pressing) making the wall for Augello's give and go on the left. The most used solution is the cross from the top of the box.

Quagliarella and Gabbiadini are very dangerous on crosses. Gabbiadini (left) is dangerous with the shot from the right side. Keita Balde is good with both feet but mostly right. Quaglia is especially good with flying solutions.

Colley is very foul and Yoshida is quite poor in defense. In short, Colley's salty is balanced by Yoshida's sweet. Audero is a little reluctant to go out. On the corner kicks they mark the zone in a somewhat static way, with 5 men in the small area precisely because Audero does not come out.

I want to see a team that puts its heart into it, regardless of the importance of the game for the standings, but it is essential, also to prepare well for the second leg with the Mancunians, that we put our best on the pitch. Daje Roma!

Giordano Sepi