Despite being disqualified, Jose Mourinho tstart talking. She does it in Trigoria, at 11 am, on the eve of Milan-Roma. From the moment of the team to the conditions of Dybalathere are many topics that the coach is called upon to address in the Bernardini press room.
11:37
Rome, Mourinho and the team’s program towards Milan
This is Mourinho and Roma’s program for Milan: the team will train before lunch, then a group lunch, rest and around 4pm the departure for Fiumicino.
11:21
The punitive choices after the derby
“The team won’t be the same as the derby, I’ll make some changes. But I don’t want to punish anyone, I have to build a physical and mental puzzle that allows us to play there. The most tactical team is the one with the least technical level, we rely on “organization and detail, we are going on a well-defined path, we are very few, we have Azmoun and Dybala out, two less. After the match I will not speak, I am here to try to express my thoughts to the fans. If there is anyone who can explain it’s me”
11:16
Mourinho and the response on Dybala indispensable
“I think there won’t be. For us without Dybala it’s not like when Guardiola doesn’t have Haaland or others, who always have great alternatives. I’m not blaming anyone, but Roma are experiencing a situation for Financial Fairplay with limitations that can be seen on the pitch during the season. Roma made an effort to have Smalling, they don’t have him and can’t have another. Roma made an effort to have Renato on loan, they don’t have him and we can’t have one something else. Dybala is a special player who played in a team that had equally special players. Here we don’t have another like that, it’s not like Belotti or El Shaarawy can make his connection. Or the kid Joao Costa who will be called up and maybe plays If someone doesn’t want to understand that Roma without Paulo Dybala is different, I don’t know what to do, it’s the reality.”
11:11
Mourinho and the hard moment: “We are few. And they think I am José Mourinho Potter”
“We had two difficult moments: at the beginning and this one, but now we are four points away from the Champions League. We have a small group of players, this is a real difficulty. Criticizing is fine, but we cannot forget the difficulties we have, it’s crazy. If people want to ignore this situation it’s not right. I defend the group, including the people who don’t have acceptable levels of performance. It’s a group of serious people, who work and who suffer. We still have the championship, we are within four points of a target which if it weren’t us we would say is impossible. We have the most incredible fans I have seen in my life, they think I am José Mourinho Potter and they raise the level of demand and expectation. I will be in the stands in an environment where I’m not welcome, let’s go there with everything we have and with the certainty that the boys will give everything.”
11:04
What to say to the fans after the lost derby? Mourinho responds
“I am also the club, I am not a CEO or director but I am also the club. I consider myself a coach and the club. I want to be loyal and correct with the club, it is my duty, but then I am also like that, at this moment the My words are objective. I don’t know how many derbies I have played, they have always been special matches, I have always experienced them in different ways. I know that for a Chelsea fan it is different to play with Arsenal or City, in Rome I understood what the derby means The derby we won was a heavy derby, winning with humiliation, 3-0 after 20′, but we always lost due to a detail, a refereeing error or our own, but we always did it with the dignity of those who give everything, we lost playing with 10 men for 60′. And this time too we finished the match as you saw, with two great opportunities to equalise. The pride of being a Roma player and of working for the Roma players is present in here, but it is on the pitch that you you have to put this extra attitude in. I perfectly understand that people are not happy about some situation that for me is out of context, but it’s not an individual sport. Whose responsibility is it? Mia, who trains them? But I can’t tell someone you don’t play, if I do tomorrow I’ll go to Milan with 15 players. There are many factors and I’ll add one thing: in here when I speak I always think that everything stays in here. Sometimes truths come out, other things that aren’t true and sometimes I even talk about myself, from the height of my experience I do self-criticism. Yesterday I gave an example in which I could have done better or my analysts could have done better”
11:00
Mourinho and the relationship with the players after the errors in the derby
“There is a difference between difficulties and using real difficulties as a way to justify something in which we can do more. I’ll spare you the names, I know how things go in football, in my direct relationship with them I don’t spare anyone anything This makes the relationship easier. Yesterday’s tough meeting, especially for some individuals. Perfect team in defence, even if we conceded a goal on our own throw-in which we were unable to take. And then a penalty taken by a child: I didn’t have I never said it wasn’t a penalty, but a penalty of modern times. I never said it wasn’t a penalty, after the derby there were only six players on the pitch. There are isolated people who have to give more”
10:58
Mourinho and the response on Milan
“They are playing for the scudetto, they won it two years ago. It seems that the current gap between them, Juve and Inter is wide and not easy to bridge, but the team is there. In defense they have some absences due to injury, they are there in midfield and in attack, they have already signed two players at the back to try to find a solution, it is a team that will want to win after losing in the cup against Atalanta. They know our difficulties, it seems that everyone knows it, maybe some he doesn’t know them, but the reality is that everyone knows them. But we’re going there”
10:57
Derby lost, how to restart: Mourinho’s response
“How do we start again? We did good things and bad things, we talked, analyzed everything, that’s it. Let’s think about the next match, there’s no other story”
10:54
Off to Mourinho’s conference: the explanation for his absence from post-derby training
“I’ve been here for two years and five months, I’ve never missed a training session. Never. A month ago I needed a day, I explained it to the owners and to Pinto and we decided together that that was the right day. I’ve been out Rome for 14 or 15 hours and it seems ridiculous to justify it, I don’t want my dignity or professionalism to be damaged. It’s not fair, I’m the perfect example of professionalism. I’ve never missed a match, I’ve never been sick in 23 years and a training session for six players who didn’t play in the derby wasn’t a drama.” The conference begins like this.
10:43
Referees theme, waiting for Mourinho’s thoughts
After Rocchi’s words yesterday, there is anticipation to understand whether José Mourinho, disqualified tomorrow, will return to the topic of referees or not. HERE IS THE COMMENT FROM DIRECTOR ZAZZARONI
10:19
Mourinho and the renewal, what the Friedkins have decided
We will certainly also talk about the topic of renewal: the Friedkins they first want to choose the new sporting director
10:16
Matic is also in crisis at Rennes, will Mourinho talk about it?
Who knows if Mourinho will also be asked a question about Matic’s moment, the former loyalist who suddenly chose to go to Rennes in August and today wants to leave there too. HERE IS THE INSIGHT
10:15
Rome in emergency in Milan, how is Dybala?
Among the issues that Mourinho will address are certainly Dybala’s conditions: in any case, tomorrow at San Siro it will be an emergency for Roma READ HERE
10:13
Trigoria, Mourinho’s conference at 11am
At 11am, in Trigoria, José Mourinho’s press conference begins
Trigoria, Fulvio Bernardini sports center