The Giallorossi coach: “Fair draw, both teams have shown that they want to win. I’m tired too…”
The lack of away victories is not over yet (16 games), but Roma demonstrated at San Siro that they are no longer afraid away from the Olimpico, even risking a late win against Milan in a match that is constantly in the balance. Claudio Ranieri is satisfied at the end of a December which (Como aside) saw Roma emerge from the crisis. “The draw is fair – begins the coach -. It was a good, vibrant match and I think the fans had a lot of fun. Both teams wanted to win. Everything that Milan did to us in one half, we did it again in the second. Yet somehow or other we failed to score. I feel tired too (laughs, ed)”.
DYBALA AND THE DERBY
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Perhaps Roma’s best away performance in 2024, certainly one of Paulo Dybala’s most beautiful and total. “He is training continuously, something he wasn’t able to do before – Ranieri gloats -. When he’s in this state it’s nice to pay the ticket to see these types of champions. Does Saelemaekers help him? The whole team does it.” Then on the substitutions of Hummels and Koné: “I wanted to play 11 against 11 and not have the thought of not having substituted the cautioned players.” Obviously the question about next Sunday’s derby couldn’t be missed: “Now we have to recover our energy. Lazio is doing very well, I congratulate Baroni and the players who were bought on the market. The derby goes beyond every concept, every logic. The derby is derby.” And who knows it better than those who have won four out of four.
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