“Roma will never be my enemy”
Saturday 23 October 2021 – 4.15 pm
Spalletti: “Roma will never be my enemy”
“Tomorrow I expect boos but I don’t deserve them”
Rome, 23 Oct (askanews) – In search of the ninth consecutive victory in the championship. Napoli visits Roma tomorrow at 6pm in a match that is not like all the others, especially for Spalletti. And the coach, former Rome, does not tend to minimize. “I’ve been doing this job for years and I realized that to be a happy coach, who lives football well, I need important squares, with strong moods, both for better and for worse. Rome-Naples is my game from this point of view. But it will never be a match against an enemy, but a match between two parts of me. Tomorrow there will be no past to defeat, but there is a very important match for the future of Napoli that we must try to win. I will all belong to Napoli, of course, but Roma will never be my enemy ”. Then he uses a metaphor to talk about tomorrow’s match: “It is a direct confrontation against a tenant of the most coveted condominium in Italy, that condominium in which all those who do my job would like to live. That condominium there will remain intact throughout the year, there will always be those teams there to compete for the Champions League and everyone will remain hooked to the possibility of entering the Champions League, which is everyone’s first goal. After all, we will talk about it along the way “. The signals that his Napoli gives “are all positive from how you are on the bus to get to the stadium, how you live in the hotel the night before the game, what are the speeches and looks that are made, even among those who play less often “. Chapter Rome: “He has a strong team and a great coach. Mourinho is one of those coaches who improve the quality of the league. I have always looked at what coaches who are better than me do and he is one of them. Then there is the match and there we will evaluate what to do “. The word on Totti is not lacking: “For Totti I did some things that I thought I would not do for any player and I would do them again too. I loved the environment, I loved Totti. With the ball at his feet he is the strongest footballer I have ever coached, he is among the greatest in this football era. I don’t want to spoil the series I’m going to do about Totti: the title is ‘We hope everyone will die later’ ”. Roma-Napoli “is a match that can give both teams another small change. We must therefore be good at reaching the top and proposing the top as a collective possibility “. In Rome there can be no boos: “I do not deserve those whistles because I know how much passion, how much love, how much obsession I gave to Rome and I put for Rome. If that will do them to me, it is something that from a distance there also becomes easy to bear. And then I will be consoled by memories of those applause of the magnificent matches that we won by playing spectacular football with equally magnificent players, bringing home the results and victories that then made the history of Rome as well ”. But he thinks about: “We have to be bouncy, reactive with respect to Roma’s game that has various solutions and is able to find more ways to attack. He has a bit of our same qualities in the game with Mkhitaryan and Pellegrini, he has Zaniolo who gives the snatches, Abraham who does the same thing that Osimhen does with us, that is to attack the spaces in the open field. We will have to be better than them at proposing these things here. We must be fierce in the reactions to what they will propose to them ”. At 6-1 suffered by Roma in the Conference League. “I prefer it not lost that game there, from my point of view.” Finally, Osimhen’s moment: “He can always give his contribution, we also saw it in the last match. In training you can immediately see his stamp, his important races, now he is doing much better even the plays in the strait. When we talk about some details he goes to try to put them on the field. The qualities are all there. He also manages to bring these qualities into play ”.
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