The coach after the defeat against Milan: “We are disappointed but also confident. By playing like this we will score a lot of points. The spirit is there, if we didn’t miss 4 out of 5 penalties…”
Forty minutes of pure football at Gasp then the collapse until Dybala’s unprecedented error from the spot who also hurt himself. It was a cursed evening for Roma at the San Siro. At the end of the match Gasperini is unable to explain the progress of a crazy match. “I find it hard to look for something wrong – admits the coach -. I prefer to see what happened. We are certainly missing goals, but we created a lot and this is the path I want to take. We are very saddened by the result, but also confident that we will score points by playing like this. Playing against a strong team we played a first half with personality. Then we suffered, but we also recovered”.
DYBALA
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The most negative news of the evening for Gasperini, however, is something else. “The worst thing beyond the penalty is the injury that happened to Paulo like that. Now we should evaluate, I think he will recover after the break. I’m sorry because Dybala was playing a series of games like the great player he is. This is the biggest loss tonight.” Then Gasperini also analyzes the negative aspects. “We have made the leap in quality except for the conclusions. Unfortunately we miss opportunities for very little, we miss penalties – adds the coach -. We are angry but today we played well in the many matches within a great match. The team has spirit, we are penalized by missing so many goals. I think of the 4 out of five penalties between Europe and the championship. And not to materialize the attacks in the final as other teams do. Maybe even with a dirty goal or from a melee. Compared to the big teams we lack these two things”.
GALLEON
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Finally, the memory of Galeone, who passed away today. The “Prophet” was one of Gasp’s teachers at the time when the current coach was a Pescara player. “His best lesson? I remember a match we played in Pisa for promotion, it was a decisive match. I remember that I made 2-3 back passes to the goalkeeper who at the time could catch it with his hands, we needed a point but I remember that Galeone told me: ‘We don’t resort to these means’. Then there are many others, but this is the first that comes to mind.”
on the referees
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In the conference, Gasp adds a concept: “I don’t want to talk about the referee, but let me say one thing. There’s only one thing that bothers me, even if it wasn’t anything decisive. We all got fed up with the fact that when the balls arrive inside the area, one puts his hands on his head and is systematically called for a foul. We’re tired of these situations: they have nothing to do with the game of football. But it’s not a problem for Guida, but for our football which is penalized by these constant attitudes.”
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