Maurizio Sarri recalled his players into training on Monday morning cancelling their routine day off and his pre-match press conference.
Lazio has started the season poorly and have just won one of their opening five games of the 2023-24 season.
The result from Saturday subsequently leaves the Italian manager in 16th position in the Serie A table with just four points from five fixtures.
The Squad was expecting their scheduled day off on Monday but the manager and his staff canceled the plan.
Maurizio Sarri also had some of his players on specialised recovery programs according to reports from an Italian paper.
These players on this program include Luis Alberto, Ciro Immobile, Mattia Zaccagni, Alessio Romagnoli, Danilo Cataldi, and Adam Marusic.
There have also been reports that there will be no press conference on Tuesday ahead of Wednesday evening’s clash against Torino.
However, Sarri will hold a pre-match interview from the stadium as a preparation for their upcoming fixtures.
The match on Saturday saw Maurizio Sarri and his men booed in the stadium after the full time whistle and that mounted more pressure on the coach and his players.
Maurizio Sarri admitted that something is up with his team after the match, saying: “We were too passive and handed the game to our opponents, so we did deserve the jeers.”
“Clearly, many things aren’t working well at the moment, but as we said before the match, it is difficult to think we can just emerge from this negative moment quickly. We ought to do more, but we’re struggling at the moment.”
“We hoped the Atletico game would help us kickstart the season, but playing after the Champions League game is tough for everyone, especially for us because we are not used to it.”
Maurizio Sarri was appointed the manager of Lazio on 9 June 2021 after he came back from a one-year sabbatical leave.
In his first season with the Italian Serie A side, the manager led the team to a fifth place finish in the league.
Maurizio Sarri
Maurizio Sarri is an Italian football manager who was born on 10th January, 1959 and is the current manager of Serie A club Lazio.
The Italian did not play football professionally but played as an amateur center-back and coach while working as a banker.
The former Chelsea manager had his first Serie B job at Pescara in 2005 and in 2014, he won promotion to Serie A with Empoli, and after preserving their place in the top flight he was hired by Napoli.
He also won several individual awards while managing the Naples-based club and these feats saw him bag Chelsea’s job in 2018.
Maurizio Sarri with Chelsea won the UEFA Europa League in his only season with the club before he returned to Italy to coach Juventus in 2019.
With the Italian giants, Sarri won the Serie A title in his first season, becoming the oldest manager to ever win the Serie A.
