Stramaccioni

When Andrea Stramaccioni was interviewed by RAI 1 after the game it was obvious that he wanted to support his players and he stressed that he was nevertheless satisfied with his players’ performance: “I can only praise my players, we gave everything we had on the pitch. I think that the team did well in the first half, we had the chance to score a second goal through Rocchi. During the second half Roma grew while we fell back because of our physique. The thing that was bitter was that we conceded a goal when the defense was in order, Roma’s players were good.”

A question about the future, what is the coach’s feeling: “The feeling is that I don’t want to talk about myself, I want to talk about my players. This is such a period. We got Ricky and Juan back for this game and then we lost Cambiasso. But looking at the two matches, Roma deserved the victory. Compliments to Roma and to my team that gave everything. Our fans have understood that and supported us until the end.”

“We only have one striker and that’s Rocchi and we preferred to let Kovacic and Kuzmanovic feed him balls with support from behind by Ricky Alvarez and Schelotto. The two switched places as Roma, at the end of the second half, put us in difficulty. Ricky was double-teamed and therefore I didn’t want to waste their energy on defense. Our goal now is to continue as we did tonight, give everything on the pitch. But the situation is desperate, today we lost even Cambiasso and we play again in three days. We must deal with the energy. we aren’t giving up anything. I do my best with my guys, as long as we are full strength, we can challenge anyone, we will give everything to the end.”

Source: fcinternews.it