Rome, Belotti to reload Abraham: this is how Mourinho plays with 9. “Tammy’s horrible game”
ROME – The first goal, the obligatory kiss a Dybalathe slap received by Mourinho. Strange afternoon, that of Tammy Abraham. The English centravaton ends up in discussion on the day he unlocks. Today Andrea Belotti will be in Trigoria, who knows if on Tuesday he will already be on the bench at the Olimpico to challenge the Monza – difficult – or n. But of course Mourinho also wants it to put pressure on his number 9, the only irreplaceable one to date due to lack of alternatives.
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Only two shots in the whole game, a prolonged war with Bremer who marked him as a man, many wrong stops, a few lost balls. And it would be the goal: “I know he has arrived, I know my qualities”, he said, without knowing that he would have regretted those words. “Great interview of Abraham, it looks like he had a great game … he played horribly”, Mourinho’s slap in the face after the game. Not only that, but also an admission: “We hope that today a player will arrive who can give him a boost …”. As if to say: now that Belotti is here, he too must deserve the job, so as not to immediately risk the treatment already reserved for Karsdorp: “Goodbye friend, someone else enters”. Abraham knows this and he also knows that he will have to raise the bar from now on. Because next summer the Chelsea will have to decide whether to spend 80 million to bring it back to London. Because first, in November, there will be a World for which he has yet to deserve a place. And to do so he cannot run the risk of losing positions in Rome.
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Mourinho’s project is just that: a team in which everyone has an alternative of equal value to play for the place. For this selection process he continues: after having rejected Villar last year, Carles Perez, Diawara, continued this year “cutting” Happy And Shomurdov, the first sold to Cremonese, the other out without there being the queue to get it. But Mourinho does not need: he has too much technical distance with Abraham to hope that the Uzbek striker can worry him. Better the guarantee of Belotti, one who with Abraham could play in pairs in the event of a change of form, but who more often will make the English feel trusted on the neck of a ruthless competitor. Even so, the process of extracting desire and quality from its players continues. With Dybala, who will not have an alternative until Zaniolo returns, Mourinho has adopted the opposite: “he played very well, I am very happy with Paulo”.
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