Roma to be a Scudetto contender? Gian Piero Gasperini puts his hands up

In the press conference on the eve of the San Siro match against AC Milan, Roma coach Gian Piero Gasperini hides about the season goals of the capital club. Here are his words, “Roma and Milan more than just outsiders? I don’t participate in these talks about Scudetto or Champions League. Right now I’m thinking about Roma and how it relates to a team like Milan. Both teams have had excellent starts. Then I can share as much as anyone that Inter and Napoli started with favors and have something more”.

“This year is a more balanced league than in the past. Our goal is to measure ourselves and we did it with Inter by doing a very good performance and we will do it tomorrow at San Siro. It’s a good opportunity. 70 points in the calendar year? In terms of points it will be difficult to do more. Although then those points produced a sixth place finish and today we&#8217re just getting started. My goal is to try to involve as many players as possible. Let&#8217s hope that the points we manage to score will be more effective than what we have achieved so far. Modric? Let us think about our competition, he is an extraordinary player and difficult to limit.”

“Dybala? Paulo’s problems have always been injuries, but he has all the qualities, not only technical, also endurance and physical. He has high-level fibers. Otherwise he would not reach certain levels. He is training very well. Before there were times that he trained less because he had some problems. Today it seems to me that he has also overcome that problem psychologically and believes he can reach certain speeds and shoot harder. But it is all stuff in his baggage and we are getting it out. I would like it to be one of those big seasons. He, for today’s soccer, is not that old, he is in the best moment of his football maturity. He must have within him the desire to have the season he had a few years ago”.

“It seems to me that midfield and defense are very similar. Up front we have more variety, because we are looking for more solutions because at the beginning Bailey and Dybala were not there&#8217. The one who gave continuity was Soulé. My priority was to give solidity to a core team and then add. Now we need to get results and I don&#8217t have much desire to make changes. Then I make changes on the run, because as much as I don’t like the 5 solutions I always use all of them. The teams don’t drop anymore, with all these changes today it looks like basketball. The games before, in my opinion, were even better. Those are the rules and while I don”t like the slots I use them.