“I left for three months and if you had told me that I would be fifth now with 4 points from Atalanta and 6 from Lazio I would have signed up given where we started.” Daniele De Rossi and his Rome they are racing to win fifth place and consequently access to the next Champions League. However, the Giallorossi coach, in the press conference, ensures that he is already satisfied with what has been done so far: “We have rekindled this race by making it something possible, the teams behind it are strong, the calendar is not easy but there is great awareness of having done great things games with great teams and bad games with weaker teams on paper. Atalanta got a point between Cagliari and Hellas Verona, we would all have laughed if we had predicted it, but at the end of the season it can happen.”
De Rossi then spoke about the possibility of seeing the Abraham-Azmoun pair forming the attack again: “Interesting experiment, if we think that we also have Lukaku. The Lukaku-Azmoun experiment didn’t go well in Frosinone, but it’s something repeatable when you want to bring centimeters into the area, but also once the game has started as long as there is a different organization supporting the two attackers. It’s not like I’m trying it for a 19-minute match, we should be ready in the future.”