Roma, Gian Piero Gasperini makes an announcement about Dybala and Bailey

Gian Piero Gasperini spoke in a press conference on the eve of Nice v Roma, the first day of the Europa League. “Dovbyk from 1′? He&#8217s an alternative to Ferguson. Among other things in the last training session they both did very well. However, it can be an’alternative also because my idea is to try to expand the roster a little bit and have more possibilities for rotations. This leads me to try out in very important matches. Certainly, in this period, a nucleus of very solid, high-performing players has been created. However, it is also true that, sooner or later, we have to try to have more confidence in other players as well, in order to be able to face all the matches that will be there”.

Only 3 goals in 4 games so far for the Giallorossi: “My analysis is that, more than an offensive difficulty, because this team, apart from Torino, has always gone in goal, it has a difficulty once it is ahead. Maybe it changes the plan a little bit and just defends the 1-0, instead of looking for a goal that could give more confidence, and so the games remain open, in the balance. My feeling is just that, including even the last game. It finds itself ahead, but it doesn&#8217t keep playing the same way. It&#8217s conditioned by the lead, it ends up conceding and then maybe it manages to bring home the result, but there&#8217s a little bit of overcautiousness. When you are ahead, the conditions for scoring goals are much easier than when you are at a disadvantage or 0-0”.

“The team is trying to build itself and come through a different way of playing. It is making its way, I don’t think it is possible today to say that Roma is a favored team or what it can do in the league – added the coach of the Capitolini. It is a team that has to think about growing, playing better, amalgamating more and more and putting more players in the squad. This competition is also very different from what it was two years ago or in previous years. There’s a ranking, a schedule that is not always the same for everyone. Our calendar is among the most difficult, because we meet two good teams at home like Stuttgart and Lille, and away from home we have very good teams in difficult environments. We have to try to score points everywhere, thinking game by game. Long-term goals have to be drawn a little bit further, because right now they have little value”.

He then updated on the condition of Paulo Dybala, who was injured with Torino, and Leon Bailey, who has not yet made his debut with the Giallorossi jersey: “We will find them again after the break, I don” I don”.

“It will be a game where both teams will try to get the maximum. When two teams play similarly, what matters are the details, the particulars. Each of us will try to make those aspects prevail, but I see it as an open game. I also hope that a good game will come out, as it always does. I don”t think there will be two teams on the field that will try to speculate on the result” Gasperini concluded.