Tonight the debut in Nice. The technician: “Dovbyk owner? Possible, my idea is to enlarge the rose”

By our correspondent Andrea Pugliese

September 23, 2025 (edit on September 24, 2025 | 01:16) – Nice (Fra)

Haise studied it for a long time and wants to imitate him. Instead, he came to Nice to win and start his new European journey at best. Nizza-Rome begins here, with Gian Piero Gasperini proud for the compliments received by the opposing technician (“I am very pleased, it is a pride having inspired him or other coaches. When I started playing the cups with Atalanta I realized that there was a nice appreciation around the way of playing”) and the hunt for the decisive goals to win.

The attack

And then tomorrow the time could have come to see Dobyk from the street, for the first time owner. “Dovbyk is an alternative to Ferguson, in the last training they both did very well. My idea is to widen the squad and have more possibilities for rotations. This leads me to do tests in games that however they are very important. Surely in this period a certain nucleus of very solid players has been created and with an effective performance. But it is also true that sooner or later we must try to have more security in other players in order to face so many players.” Especially in front, where Rome marks with the dropper. “The offensive difficulty, apart from the match with Turin, has been highlighted above all when we had the lead. In these situations, Rome tends to defend the 1-0 rather than looking for another goal that would give greater security, thus leaving the most open matches. My feeling, also confirmed by the last game, is that when we are in the lead the team does not continue to play in the same way, conditioned by the result. boil for excessive prudence “.

The opponents

So Nice, where Gasperini will also find Boga, who had for a year and a half at Atalanta, without great successes though. “He is an excellent player and an excellent boy -says the Rome coach -. In Bergamo he had arrived with great expectations, after Gomez and Ilicic, and came from an excellent championship with Sassuolo. He was unable to respect expectations. But for attitude, behavior and also for performance I remember him as a helpful boy. And also strong”. Who will try to put him in difficulty with his Nice. “It will be a game where both teams will try to get the maximum. When two teams play mirror, details, details. It will be an open game.”

Goals

But woe to say that Rome is favored in the cup, as per ranking and general expectations. “I don’t know, it applies to the cup as for the championship. The team is trying to build, to have a different way of playing, he is making his own path, I don’t think that today it can be said that Rome is favored, we must think only of growing, to amalgamate us, put other players in the squad. This is then a different competition than in the past, ranking and calendar are not the same for everyone. House strong teams like Lilla and Stuttgart. Closing on Dybala and Bailey (“they will return after the stop, not before”) and Pellegrini: “In current football I don’t think it is a problem playing every three days. Of course, he comes from a long period of inactivity. The only problem in these periods is the risk of injuries”.



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