Cioffi after Udinese-Roma: “I thought about penalties, I felt like it …”

UDINE. “What did Mourinho tell me? He asked me: was it a penalty? ». Gabriele Cioffi starts from the end, describing the hug at the moment of the triple final whistle between the owners of the two benches, while other whistles, those of the Friuli stadium, overwhelmed the referee Di Bello after the “play” that allowed Roma to arrive to balance.

On the other hand, it is said that football is a sport marked by episodes and a penalty in full recovery cannot be considered as such, so much so that even in the press room, after passing in front of Dazn’s cameras, the Florentine coach immediately argues on the rigor.

“The referee decisions do not depend on us, perhaps in that action we could have kept the defensive line five meters higher, but that’s okay anyway”.

The analysis

In a nutshell, even if the classification is not yet reassuring, even if the three points have slipped from his hands right in the sprint, Cioffi is holding on to Udinese’s performance to wade with optimism also for the future.

“I have no regrets: these must be there when you are missing a piece of the puzzle, but this time there was no piece missing from our puzzle.”

From the final sensations to the description of the battle plan which, all in all, worked, the step is short: «We had prepared the game thinking of a medium-low pressure on the opponents. We wanted to dirty Roma’s game, especially when they went in depth to look for Abraham, Zaniolo or Pellegrini’s insertions ».

The end

It revolves around the penalty episode. Cioffi manages to joke about it: «Just think that during the week I had also worked on those. Because? I felt like it … », says the Juventus coach on TV, leaving the ellipsis at the end of the sentence.

The wheel turns, they say in the world of football: they can’t always whistle against you. And lately Rome had suffered some wrong. Too bad that in this way the 1-1 has the taste of mockery. The reason is simple: «Before the penalty, Samardzic narrowly didn’t score 2-0».

The singles

Finally, space for judgments. On Deulofeu, for example: «he is in full shape and has found a psychophysical balance that his teammates recognize. The module? So we can play it with everyone ».

Molina then: «He is in an excellent period: he came from the America’s Cup, after the summer, he had wasted a lot of energy, including his mental one, my collaborators in the physical area were good at recovering him fully».

Then Makengo: «A golden boy, he played a great match. The crossbar? You don’t score if you don’t shoot, he came close ». –
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