Empoli prepares for Lazio showdown in quarterfinals, with Biondini, Perillo and Landi ready to contribute to Scudetto redemption. The Tuscan club has already sent a strong signal against Lazio in the league and now seeks to repeat the performance in a different form. Biondini, Perillo and Landi are the protagonists of this project, with Biondini's balance and leadership, Perillo's presence in the area and Landi's unpredictability. Three coordinates that put together structure, goals and talent. The European has raised their status; the double challenge with Lazio can transform it into a new push towards the title that last year remained a step away. The strongest reference, for structure and centrality, is Biondini. Captain, midfielder of weight, player who holds together physicality, readings and responsibility. His roots are in Umbria, but his path has made him a symbol of Empoli's work: a club that knows how to take talent, accompany it, make it responsible and transform it into real material for the future. Biondini has a continuous presence in the game: covers the field, holds the duel, gives order, brings voice and personality. The badge reflects a precise weight: within a very young group, his presence is felt even far from possession. In a project like that of the Azzurri, accustomed to believing in young people and giving them real space, his profile has a clear future. Leadership, strength, continuity and a natural ability to be at the center of the group: if Empoli seeks Scudetto redemption, it also starts from that type of presence. In front of Perillo, the silent bomber. One who doesn't need noise to leave a mark, because the goal accompanies him with continuity. In the league, he has scored without stopping, within a season that has put him again in the center of Empoli's Under 17. Last year, he had already found the net in the Under 16 final against Juventus, even if that match had ended with a defeat. That's why the theme of redemption passes mainly through him: Perillo knows the weight of a lost final, knows the value of a goal in a game that decides a season and can now re-enter the same type of scenario with a different awareness. More experience, more responsibility, more hunger. He is an area attacker who makes his will to power his trademark, grown in the awareness of having to be the man of the last meter. Last year, in the Under 16 final against Juventus, after the equalizing goal, Perillo had celebrated showing a shirt with the inscription 'Per te babbo'. A special dedication, remained inside his path and inside his will to power. The close challenge with Lazio in the quarterfinals represents the ideal turning point: games like this are decided on a single dirty ball, the preferred territory of Perillo. The most talented of the three, for pure quality, remains Landi. He is the one who ignites the imagination, with a game that has no equals. He is the player who most of all has the ability to change the course of a game with a single gesture. He is the player who most of all has the ability to create something new and inedit. He is the player who most of all has the ability to surprise and to move. He is the player who most of all has the ability to be a true leader. He is the player who most of all has the ability to be a true champion.