Brescia-coach Fabio Grosso has failed to take Mario Balotelli for Sunday's away match against AS Roma.

The controversial striker Mario Balotelli is again in the spotligt for the negative.

Thus he is not in the Brescia squad for Sunday's Serie A match away against AS Roma.

Balotelli would have appeared so lazily during Thursday's training, to Brescia coach Fabio Grosso has chosen to put him outside the squad.

- I requires intensity, and when I'm not watching it, I prefer to switch out, says Fabio Grosso, according to the AFP news agency.

Grosso, who joined as Bahigo a coach in the club 5. november, saying that he did not want to downplay the challenge or to blow it out of proportion.

I said to Mario that I can only help him to a certain point. From there he must help himself, says Fabio Grosso, who was a key figure, since Italy in 2006, won the WORLD cup.

Balotelli came to Brescia prior to this season. Previously he has among others played in Inter, Manchester City, AC Milan and Liverpool, and he has often created problems for themselves outside of the track.

Brescia is last in the Serie A with seven points for 11 matches before Sunday's away match.

/ritzau/