Third draw for Daniele De Rossi’s Roma, who thus failed to take advantage of Bologna’s half-failure. Despite the progress of the match, with the Giallorossi capable of containing Napoli and finding a precious point at the end in this very delicate Champions League race, the coach did not achieve the desired result, that is, seeing the glass half full: “How much is this point worth? One. It’s not a result to throw away at this stadium, but it’s not what we wanted and this wasn’t the match we hoped to play. We had a bad time against Bologna, here even though we got a draw we were a bit subdued. At this moment of the season we had to play a super game, but against a team like this we couldn’t do it. Napoli are so strong, they brought out the pride of the now former Italian champions. Against teams like this you have to be cleaner when you keep the ball, we lost it too often and we didn’t play it to defuse their quality. They shot a lot, we had to do better.”
head and heart
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The good thing is that Roma remained in the game until the end: “We are doing things well, especially when it comes to the results. Ours is a positive march, I’m satisfied, as well as with the attitude of my players, putting your heart, mind and experience into it then you manage to find a draw especially in matches like this. The boys, even in not exceptional matches, still want to get something good out of this season. Tiredness? At the end of the year everyone has it a bit, we’ve played a lot of games and there’s still a lot to go, but if we think we’re tired we’ll do badly at the end.”
evan and tammy
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On the individual DDR he states: “We need Ndicka, in addition to the assist he marked a 150 million striker throughout the match. I’m also happy for Tammy’s goal after the injury: with him and Evan we recovered two guys who suffered. Left-handed off? I would say that he was in line with the others who didn’t have an exceptional match. Gianluca had an uncomfortable client and it’s not easy to play so often, he always goes on the pitch, even in less than perfect conditions. Sanches? He can give us a great hand, he has technical qualities and dribbling skills. On the penalty episode he was a little unlucky, but he came in well and is training with intensity.”
undefeated not unbeatable
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It’s inevitable to talk about Thursday’s match against Bayer Leverkusen, the Europa League semi-final first leg: “We need to find our strength immediately given that a match against such a strong opponent awaits us. And then we will have Juve, and then Leverkusen again and immediately after Atalanta, without forgetting the last two… It’s tough but we have to continue to work well to get to the Champions League zone or win the Europa League.” Returning to the next match he says: “I hope to recover Smalling and Lukaku, we need everyone. Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow they will do heavier training which will allow us to understand if their problems are behind them. How do you beat a team that never loses? For me, Milan was also very strong and Brighton and Feyenoord also scared me. Preparing a match against teams that want to play football is a little more difficult, we will have to be very careful in the defensive phase and try to make them play without the ball, so as to lose balance and order. They are unbeaten but there is no such thing as unbeatable.”
