SOCCER. The coach at the press conference: “The team is at a lower level compared to what it will be able to express in some time.” Gasperini: “A match that counts for Europe.”
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Reading 1 min.At the press conference, Maurizio Sarri presented the big match of his Atalanta – Saturday, September 5 at 20:45 – at Roma’s field: “It will be a difficult match, between a team that already has 13-14 months of work behind it and another that has forty-five days. For us it is a beautiful, important and difficult match,” explains the coach.
“The team will grow”
“A new course must be started and we are doing it, with all the difficulties involved. The team is at a low level compared to what it will be able to express in some time. How do you stop Malen? If there was a sure way to stop strong players, strong players would not exist. Malen is in a state of grace, he will be a problem throughout the game, as is normal when you find this type of player.”
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“We prepared the match normally. Unfortunately, we are the only team in Italy that has played four games in eleven days and tomorrow (Saturday, September 5) we will be at five in sixteen days and this, along with other situations, is causing us some problems. We had to start over many times, so growth has slowed down. The market? I am very happy that it is over. Am I satisfied? Yes, like everyone I would always want something more, but I am satisfied.”
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Kristensen, Rowe, Kessie
The Tuscan coach also commented on the situation of Kessie, Rowe and Kristensen: “Kristensen did his third training with us today (Friday, September 4), Rowe only today and Kessie has done two or three. It is not a simple situation, there is a difference between the various individuals. Rowe is in better condition, Kessie after the World Cup has only trained individually and needs to grow, Kristensen has to fit into a line that works differently from what he did at Udinese. They are three different situations, three players to work on.”
Gasp: “Challenge for the Europe that counts”
At the press conference, Gian Piero Gasperini, Roma’s coach, also spoke, starting from Dybala’s conditions, stopped by a muscle problem: “He had nothing particular, he will do a test, he must feel safe and calm. Against Atalanta, more than a maturity test it will be a test of strength and value. This group has already shown its maturity, we will play a match that counts for the Europe that matters.”
Roma-Atalanta, for Gasperini, is present against past: “I arrived in a very different environment, after nine years of great satisfactions and integration with the Bergamo environment. It was not an easy choice, but I am happy to have made it. At that moment there were no longer conditions to give something more. On my part, always with great gratitude and respect, I wanted to feel alive again. And the city of Rome was the best because it is the one that motivates and stimulates you.”
