”Never thought about resigning, a defeat doesn’t change. What if I’m at risk? We know how football is, we work, others decide, we certainly threw 40 days of work down the toilet, tonight everything was missing. I’ve never felt like this.” Ivan Juric is a mask of disappointment after the heavy defeat suffered in Florence which could be a prelude to a farewell. Nothing is decided at the moment, but in the meantime rumors have already begun to swirl about possible replacements, from the return of De Rossi to Massimiliano Allegri, Maurizio Sarri, the ex Rudi Garcia and more.
Meanwhile, the current Roma coach can’t rest: ”Tonight we did everything wrong, we were coming off good performances, but tonight it’s as if we’d forgotten everything, I saw the players disoriented. Three days ago in the Europa League we played a very good match, but today against Fiorentina we did badly, I’ve seen things I’ve never seen since I’ve been at Roma. Tonight we did everything wrong”. Then he admitted: ”The team also collapsed emotionally, I also noticed a lot of frustration, we gave away the goals to our opponents. Now we have to return to Rome, think about this defeat and try to start again immediately. I have seen the solid team in recent weeks, with my idea that we can grow, never had any negative feelings. What if I think the team is with me? Absolutely. The players are the most disappointed.”
Among these Paulo Dybala who finally apologized to the Giallorossi fans present at the Franchi. ”It’s not a question of apologizing or not, we need to analyze why it happened, I’m also sorry for the boys, too many things went wrong this evening ‘”, comments Juric.
A very different climate in Fiorentina and it couldn’t be otherwise. ”I’m very happy – says Viola coach Palladino -, I asked the boys to play a great match and they did, they gave me great joy, of all the matches I’ve played as a coach in Serie A this is the one that made me gave more satisfaction. I liked everything. Already in August I saw the team growing even if not everyone believed it, now all this enthusiasm must be kept at bay but we must remain humble, tonight we started with the attitude of a great team, we were good at putting a strong opponent in difficulty.
The ranking? I don’t look at it. Goals? Now we don’t have any, we don’t have to raise any bar, we have to continue working also because it’s a strange championship”.
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