Gasperini: “Bad Roma in the Europa League”

Roma also flies to Europe and is now in the wake of the top eight in the group. A not easy victory against the Danish Midtjylland who dominated the table and who worried the Giallorossi. Gian Piero Gasperini also admits it, appearing not fully satisfied in front of the microphones. “This victory improves our standings a lot and it came against an excellent team, but we didn’t play a good game – declared the coach – We took the lead straight away and we had a way of managing it better from a technical level. We dribbled a bit slowly and made many errors in the build-up phase when there was a way to make the attackers play well. We are tired but because if you don’t play well you have to run to recover the ball. I haven’t seen any problems from a physical point of view, if anything from a precision point of view. Against Napoli we should definitely do well better.”

DYBALA AND KONE’

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There are also some doubts about Dybala’s performance as a central striker. “False nine? It’s also a necessity. Ferguson is fighting a pain in his ankle and I had to put him on in the second half – added Gasp -. Dybala has recovered and is fine athletically, he could have played even up to the ninetieth minute. He had some difficulties as a central striker, we’ll see if he will play there again or as a winger. The bad news comes from Koné who suffered a contusion and a cut on his right ankle and was forced to come off after 27 minutes. “He took a bad tackle and this created a slight sprain, let’s see how he is in the next few days”, confirmed Gasperini ahead of the match against Napoli. Praise instead for two of the best on the pitch: El Ayanoui is a starter, I always alternate him with Konè and Cristante. We are talking about a reliable player and he has shown it. Ghilardi? I’m happy for him, so far I haven’t used him much. However, he can improve something in his passing.”