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Monday 12 January, 2009 |
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Inter Coach Jose Mourinho insists that victory over Genoa in the Coppa Italia tomorrow night is important to him.
The Italian champions are stinging from dropping two points against Cagliari on Saturday evening.
But they must recover their composure to take on a strong Genoa outfit in the Coppa Italia last 16 without the suspended Julio Cruz and Marco Materazzi.
“It's important that we win tomorrow,” Mourinho stressed.
“It would be easy to say it's not important because then we would have an alibi should it go wrong, but I don't think that way.
“It's true that I will need to rest a few players, but if you look at the squad you can see that I have chosen some players who have been in action a lot. I don't think it will be a problem for them to play on Sunday after four days of rest.”
Mario Balotelli has been left out of the squad again after recently asking for a loan switch.
“It's only two days since I picked my last squad and so nothing has changed,” Mourinho asserted.
“Mario's way of working and attitude are still the same and so is my judgement.”
Inter (squad): Toldo, Julio Cesar, Orlandoni; Maxwell, Maicon, Burdisso, Samuel, Chivu, Santon; Zanetti, Jimenez, Cambiasso, Muntari, Quaresma; Ibrahimovic, Adriano, Crespo, Obinna
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