Rome, Mourinho: “I have seen empty players, but there are eight useful results”

The 1-1, as it arrived, with the draw in the final, is not bad, but Mourinho still can’t smile: “After Pellegrini’s goal I thought I would have liked a few more minutes to play … I knew that with Udinese it would have been tough and after two minutes I realized I was right. We only managed to get into the game later, with changes and a new energy. ”

Unloaded players

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The coach saw too much fatigue on the pitch: “Some were exhausted physically and mentally, a little for Thursday’s match against Vitesse, a little for the pressure of Udinese: body language doesn’t lie, in 2 and 3 it doesn’t they had the right intensity and mental strength. It is not easy to play on Thursday and again on Sunday away from home, it has already happened and we lost in Verona, in Venice and today we drew here. But we have to do better: I too am tired but I feel the tiredness after the game, not during. Some started on the pitch and I didn’t like it. ” And again: “They played to the maximum, we with difficulty. I have already talked about it with the players: we cannot choose the games, they must all be important, we must always have the same mental strength”.

Positive streak

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Looking at the glass half full he underlines: “There are eight league games without defeats, 4 wins and 4 draws, it’s not bad. Even today we took a risk in the final because losing 1-0 or 2-0 doesn’t change much, while so we got a point and continued the streak of results “.

Conditioned Zaniolo

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Finally on Zaniolo, who played as a warning with the derby with Lazio on the way: “It went very well from an emotional point of view, they make you take yellow, they destabilize and after Di Bello’s two cards against Inter I had a little fear … Nico played a little conditioned, less free and for this reason I am satisfied with what he did “.