Francesco Balzani
November 24, 2024 (change at 9.10pm) – MILANO
Defeat on debut and the hot zone ever closer. Claudio Ranieri fails to give a shock to a Roma team that was narrowly defeated in Naples despite some signs of reaction being seen compared to the latest outings. The coach, making his fourth debut for the Giallorossi, tries to be optimistic. “We have problems, that's why I was called. We were playing against a team that had lost first place in the standings and therefore against a team fighting to win the championship – explains Ranieri -. Analyzing this and the problems we're coming from I can say I'm happy of my team's performance. We made a mistake and others too, we'll talk about it this week with the boys. But the desire and determination to get back on track in this championship is there, we have to continue like this to work. I'm positive.”
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Ranieri then explains the change in formation between the first and second half when Roma switched back to a three-man defence. “The intent was to be able to keep the ball more, so much so that in the second half we kept the ball more than they did. They didn't have the opportunities that they had had in the first half due to not doing the diagonals well. We saw that a few times Lukaku was alone between the two and a few times with two of our players and Kvara was alone. Luckily El Shaarawy went to close. I tried to square up behind, I said 'let's try to move the ball and let's sink'… “.
dybala and pilgrims
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Perplexity about the use of Dybala who entered three minutes into the 90th minute: “I didn't want to risk him before and I did so even by using him so little. He is recovering and I thank him for making himself available, I gave him a few minutes and someone like him he can always pull something out of his hat so let's see if we have him for the match against Tottenham this week”. period in particular, I'm trying to help him. The senators must have the right personality to help themselves first and then others. I found a closed team, I tried to bring back serenity and security. In the second half I think we made the team run better ball and we even came close to equalizing with Dovbyk. I know I have to work, but we shouldn't feel sorry for ourselves and react. I think we still had a decent performance.”
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hummels
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Mats Hummels was also seen on the pitch in the second half. The German entered the match negatively regarding the coverage of Lukaku's goal and is not looking for an alibi: “I looked back at the goal because from the pitch it wasn't clear what had happened, I thought Svilar might arrive and I wanted to avoid the own goal. It was a difficult ball to read, perhaps the most difficult. I admit that I didn't defend at my best.” Hummels is positive about the future after a decidedly complicated start for him too: “I saw a good Roma in the presence of a great team. From here on out Roma will improve, with Ranieri it will be different. On a personal level this was my first match for at least 45', I need to play. Soon I will be the Hummels you know again.”
