Roma knocked out, Daniele De Rossi makes mea culpa

Roma knockout, Daniele De Rossi makes mea culpa

On Sunday night Roma è was defeated at home by surprise by Empoli. In the post-match Daniele De Rossi è spoke to Sky Sport: "Granted that then he will want to see it again, on the spur of the moment we lacked energy and intensity. Especially in the first half, the ball flowed slowly: when we went vertical, which è as we had prepared it, we were also dangerous".

"When you play against teams that can close well, if you dribble slow and don’t do the preventive marking you lose spaces and take counterattacks, if you take goals you lose confidence. Then you don’t even turn your luck".

The coach also made mea culpa: "It has to be done better training, there are many things that can be improved. You have to go hard, in soccer you have to go hard. And I have to be good at choosing who goes strong. In the second half we didn’t è that we did a particular tactic, we were desperate and we went off the rails: that’s howì you win, tie or get matches back on their feet".

Among the most overshadowed Artem Dovbyk: "He has to be served deep, in space, with high ball: some pressure should be taken off him in the center of the area, if he fills it alone it becomes impossible for him to find the right spaces. Also in phrasing it seems to me that he did it a couple of times today: he needs to be served better".