The Giallorossi coach: “With Milan, the details are decisive. In these matches you take charge alone, everyone wants to play at San Siro”
Getting back to winning away and ending 2024 with another smile after too many disappointments. Claudio Ranieri, two days away from Milan-Roma, spoke in the last press conference of the year. “In these matches we take charge alone, everyone wants to play at San Siro – begins the coach -. I am convinced that we will have a good match, but in these matches the small details count a lot.” It will also be the comparison with the former Paulo Fonseca, and to those who ask him who is in greater difficulty between the two, Sir Claudio responds as follows: “Coaches are always asked for responsibility. Sometimes it’s easier or more difficult, it often depends on the relationship you have with the professionals. I have splendid players and a club available, I know that mine is a demanding commitment but I am carrying it out with all my enthusiasm and love.”
DYBALA AND PILGRINI
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And this also concerns future choices: “As a coach and manager I want Hummels, Dybala and Paredes to stay next year too. I won’t beat around the bush and tell you. Saelemaekers? We won’t talk about it on Sunday against Milan, but we want to keep him and he has settled in well in Rome. Let’s see how this issue with Abraham will develop.” Ranieri is also clear about Pellegrini: “If offers arrive we will evaluate them, but this applies to everyone. I hope he can stay here with us, but he must be happy to stay too. This is the fundamental aspect. He knows that I respect him.”
MILAN
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The former Leicester manager then returns to the aspects of the match against Milan: “Reijnders is a dangerous element, but if we count the Milan players there are many very strong and particular ones. It has a high quality staff. I believe it is essential for the whole team to maintain maximum attention when the ball is lost. Milan is a team that, on its own pitch, concedes very few goals: it seems to me that it is the second best in this statistic, immediately after Bologna. We, on the other hand, are among the teams that score the least away from home. For this reason, we will have to play an exceptional match.” “Everyone has recovered except Cristante – continues Ranieri -. I know there is controversy over his recovery. I want to raise a question in favor of our doctors, the radiological report said that the path was We scolded who we had to scold and took action.”
THE FANS
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After the match against Milan comes the derby. And Roma has decided to allow training open to fans at Tre Fontane on New Year’s Day. “They are our blood, our strength – concludes Ranieri -. We need their support, I remember when I was young it was done often. Today it’s more difficult, but as soon as they proposed it to me I accepted especially for the children who deserve to be close to Roma.” Finally on the choice of CEO: “I am not involved in these choices, but only in those of the technical sphere. These are delicate things that rightly belong to society.”
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