The Giallorossi coach satisfied with the victory and Bologna’s performance: “We are recovering important players and we must always play like in the first half”
A victory that gives hope at the end of an eventful week to say the least. Gasperini’s Roma beat Bologna and got back into Juve’s wake while awaiting the Bianconeri’s match at San Siro against Milan. This is the first post-Ranieri success. But the coach now only wants to talk about football. “It wasn’t difficult at all to keep my concentration high in this particular week which was busy only outside of Trigoria – confirms Gasp -. These are guys who have always followed me, I’ve been thanking them for this for months. They always have the right concentration. It’s clear that when we have the chance to get extra players we are more competitive.”
MATCH
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Then he goes into the merits of the match: “We must believe we can win every match, we are recovering important players and we must always play like in the first half. We suffered a bit in the second half and this must not happen”. Malen is still on top, having risen to 11 goals for the season, just one point away from Balotelli’s record as the most prolific player which arrived in January. “Malen is a player who has greatly raised the level of the game for us – admits Gasperini -. We haven’t had Soulè and Dybala for three months and this has weighed on us. Now we will try to recover what we have lost in recent times. El Aynaoui? He did well until he left for the Africa Cup of Nations, he had fitted in well at the beginning. Morocco’s history with controversies and all the episodes was heavy and he paid for it. But we are talking about a very positive boy today He played a really good game.”
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Finally Gasperini thanks the fans for their support and clarifies once and for all: “The center of Roma is not me, but the fans and the club. I am a professional and I take responsibility for the technical part. I thank the owners who have always supported me and have always shown great trust in me, not since yesterday but from the first day we met. I only have to worry about this and not other things. We are talking about a powerful club that can do great things and I hope to be able to make a great contribution from the point of view of technical view”.
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