Di Francesco: "Alisson? We are preparing him for the World Cup "

Roma gives away the first half to Torino, but does not pay the price and goes on the offensive in the second half. After the four goals on the field of Napoli here is the tris to the granata that allows Di Francesco’s team to strengthen their third place: “We did not do a good first half, we were long, Torino played better. In the second half we switched to 4-2-3-1 exploiting Nainggolan’s verticality between the lines. We could have done all this in the first half as well, but we did not interpret it well,” the Abruzzo coach’s words to ‘Premium Sport’.

And now there is the appointment with history in the Champions League. We have to come back from the 2-1 loss at home to Shakhtar: “We will face a very good team, Brazilian rather than Ukrainian because of the qualities they have in front of them, but the victory makes us understand that we have overcome the difficult moment, as shown by the 7 goals in two games. We can still do much better and exploit the loose balls more as we started to do tonight. We will need the 12th man, our fans will be crucial.”

Still disappointing Schick: “He has important qualities, those who know soccer know that. He hasn’t expressed them yet, but he will,” Di Francesco concluded, before giving a quip about Alisson: “We are training him ahead of the World Cup, they told us to enhance him and so I asked my defenders to make him make saves…”.