The Giallorossi coach after the measurement success against Cagliari: “I felt the pressure until the end. The boys needed this success. Kumbulla? He was the best of mine. Sergio Oliveira? Would we need others like him”
Perhaps in the sentence that Josè Mourinho says to his friend Ciro Ferrara in the post match of Dazn there is the whole moment of the Portuguese coach: “Let me go, I’m tired”. The Roma coach really seemed so in the 90th minute: he feared he would draw a dominated match, then Rui Patricio put a hand in it and the three points arrived against Cagliari. But Mourinho felt, however, “the pressure until the end. The result counts and a match could have finished 1-1 that we could have won 4 or 5 to zero. We played – he clarifies – really well, with or without the ball, but if Rui Patricio doesn’t make that great save we draw ”.
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That’s why Mourinho says that yesterday, in Trigoria, he finished the refinement by letting Felix, Abraham, Pellegrini and Zaniolo try shots on goal and offensive schemes: “I did it to give him confidence. Nicolò played well but in the first half he had a ball in which he had to score first; Tammy suffers and is frustrated when he doesn’t get the right balls and Felix can’t ask for more, he can’t even have peace of mind in front of the goalkeeper. I hope – Mourinho’s wish – that a match will arrive in which we will score many goals ”. Maybe the championship could help out, given the non-prohibitive challenges on paper against Empoli, Genoa, Sassuolo, Verona and Spezia? Mourinho does not trust: “We had Cagliari and we struggled, I told the team that we had to win today, but it was not taken for granted”. Also because the extent of Pellegrini’s muscle injury must be assessed.
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In any case, Mourinho is consoled by Sergio Oliveira’s excellent performance, especially as a personality: “We need more Sergio Oliveira, with this experience, who knows what he has to do at certain moments in the match. He’s not Pirlo or Pjanic, in the sense of a classic director, but we needed a player like that ”. On the singles, Mourinho’s note of merit for Kumbulla: “He was the best in the field, he played a fantastic game and gave me great satisfaction. He has had difficulties in the past, I have been very negative and aggressive with him in training and he has remained calm and humble. He grew up, he played a very good match, like Mancini and like the two midfielders who covered very well, which they didn’t do against Juventus ”.
January 16, 2022 (change January 16, 2022 | 20:44)
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