"We have not started the Champions League yet and we are talking about decadent enthusiasm. I seem to be in Rome! " With a bit of irony, the press conference by Eusebio Di Francesco, staged in the belly of the Bernabeu on the eve of the challenge against the defending champions of Real Madrid.
«At the same time - continued the Giallorossi coach - I say that it is up to us to restore enthusiasm, giving more continuity and finding again the light-heartedness. I hope to see an angry team, who wants to play a vigorous match ».
Di Francesco then speaks of the adversary: «Between today's Real and that of Zidane I do not see big differences - he explained -, it's still early. But without Ronaldo it gives me the feeling that he is more team: he moves in pressure trying to remove the line from his opponents. I see them more aggressive and tend to fall asleep less games. They are much more continuous in this sense. They have not lost their qualities.
They pass from 4-3-3 to 4-2-3-1, two game systems that resemble overturning the midfield triangle. We will face a game that I'm not here to say. We have to improve our mistakes: in the last matches we missed the defensive phase. We need to defend better ".
The Roman coach also spoke of the case Douglas Costa, Brazilian Juventus suspended for four rounds after spitting to his son Federico in the final of the match won 2-1 by Juventus at the Stadium against Sassuolo: "I am outraged by myself for what I heard about alleged words spoken by Frederick to Douglas Costa when in the end he was the only one to take the spit, a unique humiliation.
He was a great man, I'm proud as a father, the only one who did not receive an apology was him and this is absurd - he always said in the conference -. I'm really sorry and regretted. The boy is down, and has almost passed from victim to guilty. This is really absurd. On social media they also wished death to me and my son, I do not say anything else ».
Daniele De Rossi was at the side of the conference technician: "We are the first to ask more about ourselves," said the captain. It is not easy to compare the Rome that beat Barcelona a few months ago, in a race that came after so many months of knowledge between us and the coach, and this one that faces Real Madrid.
The Rome that beat Barcelona was also criticized for similar games, there had been setbacks. If the season has ended satisfactorily, even if no titles have arrived, I can be confident but we must do more ".
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