Maurizio Sarri faces a day of reckoning against Celtic on Tuesday with the Lazio boss told his position is safe, but only for now.The former Chelsea manager is under serious pressure after his side lost 2-1 to bottom of the table Salernitana, and are winless in their last three Serie A games, floundering at eleventh place in the table.
They will square off with Brendan Rodgers men who need something akin to a Champions League miracle to hope Europa League progression is still on the cards by the end of the night in Rome.
But while neither the Hoops nor the I Biancocelesti could win in domestic action, Sarri's position is under threat.According to Gazetta, Lazio club president Claudio Lotito has decided 'not even to consider' sacking the 64-year-old and doesn't envisage the Italian handing in his resignation.
But the report states Sarri is under pressure to produce an immediate result at the Olimpico against the Hoops on Tuesday. The coach majorly threw his players under the bus after losing, and reckons he will be the first to make the call to leave if the current form is truly 'his fault'.Sarri said after the defeat: "This is happening to us too often.
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