Rome, Ranieri post Braga: “I asked the boys to help me, there’s still a way to go”

The words of the Giallorossi coach after the clear 3-0 against Sporting Braga

Francesco Balzani

December 12 – 9.47pm – ROME

Another landslide victory and the feeling that the bad times are over. Claudio Ranieri enjoys the 3-0 against Braga but calls for calm: “Positive performance, even if in some circumstances we carried the ball too much. You can’t want everything right away, there’s still a way to go but the boys pushed as I wanted. They sought victory and entertained the crowd by creating many opportunities. We need to be more cynical.” So the crisis is over? It is certainly the beginning of a rebirth. “I talk to the guys and I told them: ‘Help me, I can’t do anything wrong. Give me everything, then I’ll try to help you from the bench’ – continued Ranieri -. The important thing is the dialogue, the boys cannot have forgotten how to play and little by little they are succeeding. We are at the beginning of history, we still have a long way to go. I wanted those kids who enjoyed playing, finding the child inside them. But there is no chef who is good at cooking without good raw materials”.

THE SINGLES

The comment on the three protagonist heroes of the evening is inevitable: Lorenzo Pellegrini, Saud Abdulhamid and Manu Koné. “Saud is an arrow even during training, so it seemed a shame not to try it. I couldn’t play friendlies, so I was doubtful because I didn’t know how he might react and it seems to have gone well. I’m happy for Pellegrini, in training he started to get goals again and today he scored. I’m really happy with his goal. Koné? He must understand when to carry the ball and when to play two touches. Little by little he will improve some small defects, I saw him on television and you could see how strong he was”, concluded Ranieri who, after Ghisolfi’s opening, preferred to postpone the topic linked to the market: “Now it is important to finish December well, in January we will see where act. I’m evaluating several players and based on how they are training they all deserve to play. If you don’t know your squad well it’s useless to talk about new arrivals. Then we will definitely do something.”



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