Yesterday, Perugia welcomed back the German internationals, Fromm and Kaliberda, and now the full squad is ready to work hard for Thursday’s Italian Cup quarter-final return leg against Verona.

“After two months of playing one game after another we needed time to work on the physical side – said captain Buti – We have also worked on our game. Coach Kovac made us work hard, he has that same strong personality he’s always had, always extremely motivated. We start off immediately with a big one. One way or another we have to make it to the final four. We know Verona, it’s a strong team, they won here in our gym in the league, but we know we’ll have our chance. We have that little advantage of our tie-break win of the first leg, we’ll be home and we’ll give everything we have to go through”.