The Grifone coach commented on the match against Cagliari
Genoa beat Cagliari 3-0 and relaunched themselves in the standings after five games without a win. However, the Roman coach is not 100% satisfied with his players.”For me, great performances last 90 minutes, where you make much fewer mistakes than we did, sometimes the weight of the three points against a direct competitor stops you and you must be able to be dirty and concrete. But the team held up well on the pitch“.
De Rossi’s words
This is what De Rossi said about the match: “It wasn’t a great performance. In my opinion, great matches happen when you keep control of the game for 90 minutes and make fewer mistakes than we did in the controls. But the team held its own, there are moments when you can’t play, things don’t go right and you feel the weight of the match. Sometimes even playing for the three points against a direct competitor stops your legs. In those moments you have to be dirty, you have to cover yourself and in the first half we succeeded. In the second there was just that one opportunity and then we did better“.
Then he focused on some of the team’s mistakes: “Like against Pisa we start well for the first 15-20 minutes, then we lower the level and make stupid mistakes: I said we had to play vertically and behind the defenders. The 2-0 goal reassured us, having said that Leali made some saves to keep the result. It’s not a match that should have ended 3-0 based on what we saw on the pitch, then we sealed the result“.
De Rossi focused on the rossoblù goalkeeper, given the rumors that speak of the arrival of the Brazilian Bento: “I have always defended him. Then there are choices we have to make, but Leali is a goalkeeper who remains in our squad and in whom we have great confidence. I’m happy that he got an evening as a protagonist again, because he’s a fantastic guy“.
Finally a passage on Colombo, reborn thanks to De Rossi: “He needs to keep doing what he’s doing and have ambition, because must aim to reach double figures. He has everything to do it“.