ROME (ITALPRESS) – “Atalanta is the pride of us Italians, it is a perfect machine and plays in a wonderful way. We will face the third team that has the same philosophy, which is to attack, always going vertical, after Napoli and Tottenham. In London we saw a glimmer of light, I saw players intensely wanting something positive again. Right now we have to make the fans proud of what we can do. We have to give it our all, and the fans understand if we don’t give it.” This was said by Roma coach Claudio Ranieri in a press conference ahead of the match against Atalanta scheduled for Monday night at the Stadio Olimpico. “Atalanta model for the future? We always relate to what our vision is,” he explained. “Atalanta is a team that has slowly become an emblem of Italy and you have to take your hat off to them. Rome was not made overnight, give us some time.” Time also to recover one of the players most in trouble with the environment. “Pellegrini was running like crazy, he feels the weight of this situation and I want him to enjoy it. He needs to unplug and reset, I’m sure later on he will be back to the midfielder I know. In my career I had two phenomena scoring goals as midfielders: Lampard and Pellegrini. They criticize him, but how many in his role score the goals he does? He is a sensitive guy and suffers from this situation more than anyone else,” the Testaccino coach’s words on the moment of the Giallorossi captain, who remained 90 minutes on the bench against Tottenham. “It is not true that the blame for De Rossi’s exoneration lies with him. Neither Mancini, nor Cristante, nor Pellegrini sent Daniele away, in fact they were crazy to make him stay. This people must know,” Ranieri reminded, addressing the fans. Dybala’s minutes to be evaluated: “I evaluate him training after training, we know that the boy can fall into some issues and I have to be ready to understand them. I brought him out in London because I needed another player to press the opponent closer to the penalty area,” he said. “When Paulo came on he did wonderful things, like the assist for El Shaarawy in the disallowed goal or the shot on which the goalkeeper made a super save. Soulè didn’t do the wonderful things Dybala can do, but he gave me a lot of running and pressure.”- Photo Ipa Agency -(ITALPRESS).
