AS Roma Daniele De Rossi on 4-0 thrashing of Brighton and Hove Albion in UEFA Europa League last 16 first leg
Stadio Olimpico, Rome, Italy
Stadio Olimpico, Rome, Italy
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00:14 Congratulations. A team that fills the pitch with courage.
00:18 A lot of people have come to hear you.
00:20 I wanted to ask you, what has Alberto De Rossi said to you in the last 50 days?
00:25 - In the last 50 days? - Yes, has he spoken to you? I imagine so.
00:29 Not so much if he's asked for some advice, but what will you say after this Roma-Brighton 4-0?
00:37 Unfortunately, I haven't had the good fortune to meet my dad.
00:40 My dad works in the same place as me, which is big but not huge.
00:46 I've seen him twice in the last 50 days.
00:49 When he comes near our pitch, I run away as if I'd stolen something.
00:54 The other day I bumped into him at the bar and I didn't know he was here.
00:58 He's calm, there's no problem.
01:00 Dad hardly ever talks to me about football.
01:02 He hardly ever talked to me about football when I played, he hardly ever talks to me about football now.
01:06 Partly because I think he trusts me, partly because I don't want to get him confused.
01:10 I call him Dad, we talk about management and human resources.
01:15 We don't talk much, but I'm his son.
01:20 A lot of the compliments I get come from the fact that I inherited a passion for football from him.
01:29 He has a lot of football ideas.
01:32 I don't know, maybe it's because I know how to relate to people.
01:39 I know he's very bad, he doesn't like to talk about it.
01:43 He's very happy, he comes to the stadium because he hardly ever came when he played.
01:48 He's started coming again and I'm happy he's enjoying it with me.
01:52 Even if he's a bit quiet, even if he's a bit distracted, these 50 days.
01:57 Coach De Rossi, congratulations with this first leg.
02:03 Since you took on the job, you received so many compliments.
02:08 Such a brave team, a good footballing team on the pitch, a nice atmosphere in the changing room.
02:13 But what did your father, Alberto De Rossi, tell you?
02:17 Did he tell you something?
02:18 Unfortunately, you don't know my father.
02:20 We work in the same place, but I probably saw him twice back at the training ground.
02:27 He's very shy, he doesn't want to talk to me.
02:30 The other day we bumped into each other at the bar, but he said, "OK, I'm leaving."
02:35 As if he had stolen something.
02:37 He barely speaks about football with me because he has confidence in me.
02:40 He probably doesn't want to create confusion in me.
02:43 Sometimes we talk to each other, but more about how to handle the human resources.
02:48 But I'm his son, so the compliments you're giving me are probably also thanks to him.
02:54 He's very happy, of course, and he came to the stadium.
02:58 He came back because when I was a footballer, at the later closing stages of my career,
03:04 he stopped coming to the pitch.
03:15 Hi, coach. I wanted to ask you about the preparation for the game.
03:20 I imagine you've evaluated various possibilities, and then decided to play it like that.
03:25 Knowing that sometimes it could happen that when the ball was in their hands,
03:30 Spinazzola was forced to try and help Welbeck, as happened.
03:35 He was marked, not being a central defender.
03:39 You knew that, and I suppose, and this is the question I want to ask you,
03:43 you thought you wanted to keep the ball a bit more,
03:46 so you wanted to limit the risks, but you had the advantage of playing with a team like that.
03:51 Yes, when you're playing against teams that are good at keeping the ball,
03:55 good at managing the ball, you have to try and make them play as little as possible.
04:02 Whereas teams that are less skilled can leave them a bit more.
04:05 They're good, they recognise each other, they know how to play.
04:08 In the second half, they made us play a bit less.
04:12 But in the preparation for this game, I knew that our players were very good.
04:18 Playing man-to-man is a piece of iron that could turn on our side.
04:24 We played man-to-man, they played man-to-man.
04:27 It's fair to do that, I think you respond to courage with courage.
04:33 They're a team that I like a lot.
04:35 The coach, you know, doesn't need to talk about it anymore.
04:40 But I knew that in this piece of iron, my players would have done what they did tonight.
04:47 If they'd played the way they did tonight, we would have won.
04:51 The result comes out in many ways.
04:54 They had chances, but I think it's too wide.
04:58 But I think we deserved the win and we played a great game.
05:07 You probably prepared the game in this way with Spinazzola.
05:11 You probably knew that when they would have the ball,
05:14 you would have to close down on Welbeck, although he's not a marker.
05:19 But you probably bet, you gambled that your team would have the ball more than them.
05:24 Yes, that's how we have to reply and to play against good footballing teams,
05:29 teams that have ball possession.
05:31 You have to take away the ball from them.
05:34 In the second half, we had less ball compared to the first half.
05:41 But when you have good players like my players,
05:44 in my opinion, you have to try to play one against one because it can be an advantage.
05:50 That's how you answer to a brave team, you know, being even braver.
05:56 You already know my opinion about their coach.
06:00 I don't want to dwell on it.
06:01 Results are also due to episodes.
06:05 Probably the scoreline is even too large.
06:08 But I would say that all in all, it's a more than deserved win.
06:12 Hi Daniele.
06:13 I wanted to come back to the defensive side, which I think is perhaps the most important thing,
06:18 even though you won 4-0.
06:20 I wanted to ask you about their 3-2 formation.
06:24 You put a sort of quadrilateral in front of you to block it,
06:28 almost forcing the search that they often do in this situation of their forwards with the ball.
06:34 Thinking that the characteristics of your defenders in that situation
06:38 would have allowed you to get rid of that kind of danger.
06:42 So in that way, you were able to avoid their more rational formation and the long ball.
06:48 Then, for the characteristics, Mancini was going out on the cross,
06:51 you weren't even going to suffer in that emergency plan.
06:56 You had thought about it like that, without the ball.
06:59 Yes, I repeat, the result also makes a difference in the judgement of the game.
07:04 Because then they pulled the ball a bit.
07:06 We, I think, more than them, 17-14.
07:09 But they pulled the ball in the goal.
07:11 To make the perfect game, you have to make them pull a little less.
07:14 But we have a goalkeeper in the goal who stops and is part of the team too.
07:18 I think, yes, not a quadrilateral, let's say a pentagon.
07:21 We were 5-5 and we were trying to send them a bit from the side where we were a little more solid,
07:27 a little stronger.
07:29 But in short, without directing too much,
07:31 because the teams like that, you direct them on one side and they go from the opposite side.
07:35 We are one of the key points of Roberto's game.
07:39 The ball, I decide where it goes, I decide where to play it,
07:42 I decide when and how to get under your pressure.
07:47 So we had to accept the duel man to man.
07:50 And we had to play, as they came man to man,
07:54 bring them into our midfield and then go up the pitch,
07:57 where we have players who then invent.
08:04 Your team won four goals by one,
08:07 but I would like to ask something about how you defended against their build-up,
08:12 because they build up with three plus two
08:15 and somehow you tried to prevent their build-up from the back and force them long balls.
08:20 Is that how you prepared the game?
08:22 Yes, that's how we prepared the game, but they also created chances.
08:27 They shot on goal quite a few times.
08:29 I think it was 17 against 14 in our favour,
08:32 so it was not the perfect aim.
08:34 They should have shot fewer times for it to be perfect,
08:39 but we have a good goalkeeper.
08:41 I would say that we played five against five.
08:44 We tried to drive them towards the side where we are better,
08:48 we are stronger, but not so much,
08:50 because Roberto's team, they decide where to play, how to play.
08:54 They go back if you drive them too much on one side.
08:57 We had to take on duels, one against one,
09:00 and then play vertical balls,
09:02 because that's where we have players that can make the difference.
09:06 Hi.
09:08 One of the things I imagine was prepared at the table
09:12 was Leandro Paredes' vertical ball.
09:15 I wanted to ask you what it gave Paredes,
09:21 because he really seems like another player in the last month.
09:24 Is Paredes back?
09:26 Maybe he also fooled the Argentinians.
09:29 That ball wasn't prepared, it wasn't studied, it wasn't a scheme.
09:34 We knew we would have had a lot of pressure on us
09:38 and we didn't have much time to think.
09:40 We had to find time to think,
09:42 but if we didn't, we knew we would have had duels one on one.
09:46 And in those duels, I repeat, our players are very strong.
09:50 So I had to put the quality of my players in front of everything else.
09:55 And everything went very well.
09:57 He's one of those strong players.
09:59 Leandro is a strong player, a world champion.
10:01 He played for Paris Saint-Germain, for Juve.
10:04 He's a strong player.
10:06 He runs, he runs in training, he's fast.
10:11 I encourage him.
10:12 I have a relationship with him that allows me to be more direct.
10:19 I have a relationship with him that allows me to take him around
10:22 in front of the rest of the team,
10:24 perhaps highlighting some defensive gaps, some tactical gaps.
10:29 I take him around in the video and edit it.
10:32 So, jokingly, I encourage him to continue to improve.
10:38 He has to continue to improve, but I'm really happy for him.
10:42 I don't understand why you're so surprised
10:44 because he's a world-class player.
10:48 But talking only about him would be wrong,
10:50 especially tonight, because they all played an exceptional game for me.
10:56 Speaking about vertical passes, through passes,
10:59 you know, Paredes, for the first goal, he gave a fantastic assist.
11:03 But what did you give to this player?
11:05 He has completely changed.
11:07 He's doing so well.
11:09 Well, first of all, you did not prepare such a pass.
11:13 We knew that we would play under pressure.
11:16 We would have not so much time to think for the right pass.
11:20 And that's why we had to make the most of the one-v-one.
11:24 But Leo is a world champion.
11:26 He played for PSG, for Juventus.
11:29 He's a top player.
11:31 He runs a lot in the training.
11:33 He works hard.
11:35 We have a good relationship with each other.
11:37 You know, I can, between inverted commas, tackle him harsh.
11:41 You know, sometimes during the video sessions,
11:43 I can pull his leg.
11:45 I can stimulate him, and he's doing so well.
11:47 But frankly, I don't know why you are surprised by his performance.
11:50 He's a world-class player, but you can't expect
11:53 to single out only his performances,
11:56 because it was a good collective performance.
12:01 Hi, Daniele.
12:03 I'll keep talking about the individual players,
12:06 because tonight, they all played well,
12:08 and I was very impressed by Celic's performance.
12:11 In the first half, he did something like a Maicon.
12:14 I wanted to ask you if this performance,
12:17 as well as the last ones,
12:19 are a bit like psychological hammering,
12:22 you or the fact that they are strong and not weak?
12:25 It's not like you can pick a weak player
12:29 and say he's strong, strong, strong,
12:31 and then he comes on and does that performance.
12:33 If he's a saw, he's a saw.
12:35 Celic is a strong player.
12:37 Celic is one of the strong players we have.
12:39 I don't know.
12:45 Celic played a good game for me,
12:47 not because I psychologically hammer him
12:49 on how good he is,
12:51 and magically he becomes a strong player.
12:53 He played a good game today,
12:55 a good game at Monza,
12:57 and he's good every time,
12:59 even in the small gaps I gave him.
13:01 He trains at 2,000.
13:03 Celic, when he never plays,
13:05 when I preferred Rasmus, Rick, anyone,
13:09 he was there with a smile,
13:11 not because he's stupid,
13:13 but with a smile,
13:15 he came to talk to me,
13:17 because he wanted to play more,
13:19 because he thought he could give a lot to this team.
13:21 I always tell everyone
13:23 that I make choices,
13:25 choosing the players I think will make me win games.
13:27 I had nothing against him,
13:29 I was aiming for him.
13:31 He came to talk to the national coach
13:33 saying he was aiming for him,
13:35 Vincenzo and Daniele Russo.
13:37 This could have helped him mentally,
13:39 but during that period when he never played,
13:41 he never lowered the level of training.
13:43 He would take his GPS at the end of the training session
13:45 and it would go off.
13:47 That's what makes the difference.
13:49 I don't want anyone to react with a smile,
13:51 I want someone to have a big smile,
13:53 someone to take it well,
13:55 someone to get angry a bit more.
13:57 I accept that, because I was a footballer.
13:59 I know that when you don't play,
14:01 I was a starter,
14:03 if I got up in a game,
14:05 I was very happy.
14:07 The important thing is that they go strong in training.
14:09 You have to go strong in training,
14:11 because when you go strong in training,
14:13 you can go strong in a game.
14:15 It's not a rhetoric, it's like that.
14:17 Speaking about individuals,
14:19 I would like to single out
14:21 the performance of Selic.
14:23 In the first half, he did a piece of play
14:25 that seemed to be my con.
14:27 Is that because you are insisting so much
14:29 on the psychological work
14:31 that he's performing so well?
14:33 You cannot tell a player who's not good
14:35 that he's good,
14:37 because otherwise he would not perform
14:39 on the pitch.
14:41 Selic is playing well,
14:43 not because he's good,
14:45 he played well,
14:47 but not only today,
14:49 also at Monza,
14:51 when he played for a few minutes
14:53 in other performances,
14:55 because he always works hard
14:57 at 120% in each training session,
14:59 even when he was not playing,
15:01 and I would play
15:03 Rasmus Christensen
15:05 or Rick Karstorp
15:07 or whoever.
15:09 Whoever was playing before him,
15:11 but he still worked hard,
15:13 he still smiled,
15:15 and he was smiling because
15:17 he was convinced that he could
15:19 help this team.
15:21 I explained to him that I was counting
15:23 on him, but I was making my choice
15:25 based on what I thought
15:27 was better for the team.
15:29 I also know that their
15:31 national team coach, Montella
15:33 and Daniele Russo,
15:35 they came to tell him that
15:37 they were betting on him.
15:39 Then you have one play
15:41 who can smile when he's
15:43 not playing, someone else who can pull
15:45 a long face. I've been a player myself
15:47 and I wanted to play every single game.
15:49 I can accept a long face,
15:51 but then when you train, you have to train
15:53 very hard, because if you train hard,
15:55 then you play hard.
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