Jose Mourinho: “The Olympics like a Portuguese beach.”
Jose Mourinho: “The Olympics like a Portuguese beach.”
The big match between Juventus and Roma will be staged on Saturday at 6:30 p.m. “The team playing tomorrow is the same as on Monday with the change of Zaniolo for Matic. We arrive with six points in two games and that is important. But we also come with the situation of Zaniolo and Wijnaldum who are two important players for us and change the perspective of the match.”
“It’s one thing to have a roster with more solutions and another to have a roster with fewer solutions. It’s a match against a great team that wants to win the Scudetto. It’s one of the 38 matches of the season. Playing today or on day 37 is the same thing. Playing against a great team is always difficult, but it’s also motivational and if we take it in that sense it’s top. We try to come to this competition in a balanced way. Is it difficult? Yes, but we want to play it.”
It will be a challenge with a special flavor for Paulo Dybala: “For some players coming home is nothing, for others it is difficult. For others it’s 50/50. For Paulo I don’t know, he has the face of a child but he’s not. He has a lot of experience, then the control of his emotions is up to him. From the way he has worked these days I have not seen anything different. I expect a normal game, maybe with a little more emotion first. He didn’t start the pre season like the others, he arrived late. At the Olympic playing on that surface is really hard, it’s like running on a Portuguese beach. I see him well and with good disposition.”
“This Juve-Roma has nothing connection with the next or the last one. What happened in the past should not affect it. We can prepare the team the best we can, but we always do. It’s not that we do it more with Juve than we did with Cremonese. We have to play a normal game. We go there to play against a quality team with confidence and calmness. We have grown and we are prepared. We know what we want to do. Since two days the players know who is playing. There is no big story, we are going there to try to win,” Mourinho concluded.
