The Giallorossi coach on the eve of Milan-Roma: “Allegri and I are experts, but that’s not enough. This is a really balanced championship. Dybala is training very well. Pellegrini? He always plays, I don’t see the problem”
Scudetto challenge or not, perhaps it’s still too early to tell. But Milan-Roma tomorrow night at San Siro is an important test for the ambitions of Gasperini and Allegri’s teams. “However, I don’t like talking about the Scudetto or Champions League challenge – Gasp says immediately -. I don’t participate in these discussions. Everyone can draw their own considerations from what they’ve seen. We both had an excellent start, I’ll leave the other discussions. I can agree that Napoli and Inter have something more, but our objective is to compete with them. We competed against Inter and we did it well, now we’ll do it against Milan who strengthened a lot in the summer. Allegri and I are experts, but that’s not enough. This is a really balanced championship, more than other years”.
top start
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In short, the word scudetto is not the name, but Gasperini is definitely satisfied with Roma’s departure. “In terms of points, it is difficult to do more – adds the coach -. Roma has 70 points in the calendar year, but something more can be done in terms of the team. My objective remains to build a system that can be increasingly competitive. It is important that those points are effective, more than what the current ones have brought.” To do this, Gasp continues to experiment even if he sends back to the sender the analyzes on the too many changes in the formation: “The many changes in the formation? It seems to me that the defense and midfield are always very similar, even on the outside I haven’t changed that much. The nucleus is well built, I don’t see all this variety and maybe I don’t have all this desire to make changes from the start. If anything, up front we have experimented and are looking for more solutions also because for a long time we haven’t seen Dybala and Bailey. I don’t think I’ve ever had such a strong squad at the level numerically, Dovbyk is also growing and sees him better from a technical point of view as demonstrated by the goal against Parma”.
modric and dybala
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Then the criticism on the 5 substitutions: “Football has changed after Covid. It seems more like basketball than football, it was good before because you had to select well from the start. And in my opinion the games were better, but since I’m there I use them all.” Just like Allegri does where however there is an essential, his name is Modric. “An extraordinary player, who manages to occupy different areas of the pitch. He is not easily limited, we know that. But we have to think about not being limited ourselves, facing this Milan on equal terms is already a great result”, says Gasp. Finally, analysis by the coach on the individuals, starting with Dybala: “Paulo’s problems have always been injuries. He has all the qualities, not only technical, shooting, but also in terms of resistance, physical fitness, he has high-level fibres. Otherwise you cannot reach high-level goals if you don’t have absolute qualities. He is training well, perhaps before there were moments in which he had to train with caution. I hope it will be a great season for him. He can also play as he gets older. Pellegrini? But me Who should I remove, tell me? I think he’s playing well, but enjoy the good things for once.”
the cat
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A particular reporter interrupted the conference with smiles and jokes. In fact, while Gasperini was speaking, very loud meows were heard from a cat that had sneaked into the press room. Initially Gasp didn’t understand what it was about, then he stopped smiling: “There’s an intruder here!”. Amid the laughter of the journalists, the coach invited them to take the feline out. “More than anything for his safety,” he added. After a minute a staff member picked up the cat and the conference resumed.
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