Empoli-Roma, the irony of Claudio Ranieri, the regret of Roberto D’Aversa
Empoli-Roma, the irony of Claudio Ranieri, the regret of Roberto D'Aversa
Roma is going great with five consecutive victories and also in Empoli the Giallorossi confirmed the state of grace, with a very quick goal. But also many unclosed chances to double in the first half.
"I am a person of a certain ageà – Claudio Ranieri commented ironically -, you can’t make me stay on the who goes thereà until the end. We had to close it out, these are games that you draw in the end. We came here in a humble way, the return leg è difficult for everyone. The European commitment creates difficulties and many teams had problems in the league. I chose guys who were hungry to play. Now we can prepare well for the game against Athletic".
The coach, when asked about the good performance of Soulé, glossed over it, preferring to praise his own en bloc: "I liked the whole team. I like practicality and not academics, for me playing well means winning games. When you have to score it has to be done. Shomurodov è a splendid guy, but not è a goleador. He was very sorry for the chances not materialized, but the important thing is to be in the right place at the right time. He solved several games for us".
On the Empolese side Roberto D'Aversa obviously did not take well the false start of his team: "Roma especially in the first half could round off the result, they were unlucky and è Silvestri was good. But a team that has to save itself cannot è start like that. We cannot take goals in the first minute. In the second half we had to take advantage of the good fortune that we ended the first half with only a one-goal deficit, but we did not have the strength to go and equalize.
“What makes me most angry,” D’Aversa stressed, “is that we paid dearly for that mistake. I repeat, you can not concede a ball soì to a formation soì in form". For the coach of the Tuscans, the team did not have the usual strength and aggressiveness". "In the first half Roma would have deserved something more". Beyondà the shot of our De Sciglio we did little".
