After speaking at the press conference, Mister Daniele de Rossi made some statements to the television station’s microphones on the eve of the big match with the Bayer Leverkusenvalid for the first leg of the semi-final of Europa League. Here are his words.
Are the new Italian coaches changing football?
“I think that the new generation is assimilating ideas already given in the past, especially by Guardiola. And he took them from the football of the 70s. Football is evolving, before we Italians were considered conservative and now instead the new wave has more an offensive attitude. Football is always the same, then there are different ideas that perhaps come from football from many years ago.”
Is Roma a team built to win only in Europe?
“If that were the case it would be very serious and I wouldn’t be able to prepare for the match against Juventus. Since we arrived, we have averaged 2 points in the league. If we had 70 points, we would be calm in the Champions League and could only think about the Europa League. We can’t do that but I can’t even say that my team is used to winning only in Europe, my path is also positive in the championship“.
The relationship with the League?
“I find myself a bit lost. I have people behind me who take care of this team 24 hours a day, sometimes I find Lina and Maurizio on the phone late at night poisoned by this situation. It’s difficult to please everyone, but sometimes it seems strange that we, as an Italian team and pride in Europe, are not satisfied. I don’t want to make a conspiracy, but it certainly remains a precedent. The only strange thing is that a date has not been found, while for another match a date has been found at the end championship and with the players on holiday, it has never happened to me. Playing 3 days later will never be the same, we have to think about the pitch and try to improve.”
The best coaches are former midfielders, is that true?
“It suits me if you say that, but it’s partly true. The midfielder is in the heart of the game, he must know how to do both phases. We are always inside the game and we can be more stimulated in the two phases. Maybe it’s this or maybe it’s a coincidence.”
(Sky Sports)
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Following this, the Giallorossi coach also spoke to the microphones of the public broadcaster:
Bayer unbeaten but not unbeatable. Why can Roma manage to beat him?
“Because it’s the next team that will play us. I don’t think Roma are the only ones that can beat them. They’ve been exceptional this year in never losing, but at times they’ve been close to losing and they recovered in the 93rd minute It’s an extra virtue they have, the fact that they never give up, in addition to the great quality of play. Every team can beat any team, it wasn’t a speech to say that Roma is the team that can beat Bayer semi-final, us against them. We will try to prove that that sentence I said is true. Manchester City is out, Barcelona is out. All the teams in the world are beatable, even those who have something less championship we have shown that we don’t have the continuity that they have, but there are two games and we will have to play two great games and, why not, going through is absolutely possible.”
(Rai Sport)
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