Mourinho: “Are the Roma CEO sure I’m staying? His interpretation”

“The last thing I want to think about now is my future and that of the team. Right now I’m only thinking about Salzburg, which is an inside-and-out game. The future is tomorrow, in this case”. José Mourinho is thus approaching the return of the playoffs with Salzburg in the Europa League. But before he does he wants to clarify one thing: “The words of the CEO Pietro Berardi (who said he was confident about his stay in the yellow and reds also in the next season, ed) they are simply his intuitionI have never spoken to him on this issue”.

The match

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And then it’s important to win above all tomorrow, because even on this Mou is very clear: “The most important match for me is always the next one. What stadium do I expect? After Verona I ended up apologizing, because it’s not my job to criticize the fans, it’s me who has to be criticized by them. We are used to a hot curve, which gave us so much last year in decisive matches like against Leicester, Bodo and Vitesse. Our fans played with us there and if they do it again it will certainly help us. There will be the stadium that they want and that we will be able to create with our game, trying to create a positive atmosphere. We want to win and I have no doubts that the attitude will be the right one because this team always gives everything and only surprises me when they don’t succeed. The eyes of the boys will be the right ones”. And the stadium will also help to get off to a strong start, to try and get even the score right away. ”Salzburg start from 1-0, it’s a minimal advantage, but still an advantage. But it doesn’t seem to me that by philosophy it’s a team that can think of a 0-0 draw to go through. Instead, it seems to me a team that wants to play, attack, maybe a game similar to the first leg will emerge. Let’s just hope for a different ending, because we had the great opportunities to win there but we lost”.

The returns

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And to win then the recovery of the injured players will be essential: Pellegrini, Dybala and Abraham. “We’ll see what to do tomorrow. They are definitely not 100% but if they want to be there to help yes they will be there. But starting with three doubtful players seems too much to me”. And then Pellegrini will be there, almost certainly Abraham too, while Dybala should start from the bench. The surprise, however, could come from Wijnaldum, who is a candidate for a starting shirt. “Gini is improving, we also saw with Verona that the intensity is coming: it’s an option to be able to start from the start as well”.