ROMA (ITALPRESS) – “Tomorrow is a very close match to that of Sunday with Milan, which is certainly at this moment a game that has greater attention”. Gian Piero Gasperini immediately made clear at the press conference ahead of the Europa League challenge between Rome and Stuttgart.
In the European Cup, the Giallorossi are in “a good position (at -1 from the eighth place that is worth direct qualification to the eighth), we know that winning we would have great chance to avoid the playoffs”, admits the technician, but at the same time “at this time the championship, as the results Sunday went, is what we have more attention”.
Fourth place at +3 on Juventus and with the big match on Sunday at the Olimpico to try to take a single length from Milan: an opportunity too tight not to think about it. Speaking of goals, winning the Europa League cannot fall among these: “Winning a trophy in Europe, for Italian teams, has become a problem. Just see yesterday’s games. If this becomes the meter of judgement, you run the risk of being very disappointed,” says Gasperini.
For the Giallorossi technician the goal is “to improve and grow, with the market or with the games, to try to become a better and stronger team. Then, when you have the feeling of being a strong team, then maybe you will come to win something.”.
Then, the topic: “The team is fine, apart from Hermoso and the usual, and in addition to the absences of the two new arrivals. Dybala’s fine, he’s a recovered player. It’s clear that years pass and maybe on the speed profile compared to years ago can have something less, but it manages to be an important player.” A comment on Bailey’s cut (“the decision to stop the loan was determined by accidents. It was a negative experience for everyone, it is a sin), before the announcement of a new chance for Ferguson: “Today he is a player of Rome, every opportunity for him is good for performance. Lately he has done some good, he has also made important goals, tomorrow I expect a performance in line with the last”.
Next to Gasperini Niccolò Pisilli, who has removed the market sirens: “The session closed on February 2 but I am totally focused on Rome, on the game tomorrow and on what will come from here until the end of the season”, his words. To give a strong voice to his speech Gasperini, for him the midfielder class 2004 should not seek space elsewhere to grow. “There is no need to leave. His experience must do it here, he must become strong in Rome. The moment will come when it will become of the value of Konè and Criden”, concluded the technician of Rome.
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