Rome bowed by Empoli’s motivations. De Rossi: “We don’t know how to win dirty”

It wasn’t a match that really had anything at stake for Roma, but we are sure that for his part De Rossi would have liked to end the season differently which saw his debut on the capital’s Giallorossi bench. At Castellani, Empoli’s main motivations prevailed, winning 2-1 and celebrating salvation.

Despite the stakes being practically zero, Roma still played their game and De Rossi did not opt ​​for drastic choices in terms of turnover: of the available protagonists, Pellegrini was missing among those who are usually on the front line. However, many (Abraham above all) were disappointed.

De Rossi gives his perspective on the match in the post-match analysis in the press conference: “If only the motivations were valid we wouldn’t have played the match, then there’s a lot of football stuff to talk about. We started on the counterattack and weren’t able to get a shot on goal, for example. We always shoot a little because we keep the ball, sometimes the games are won even in a more dirty way and we lack this characteristic. In the first half we managed the ball in an orderly manner, in the second half we had more space, the games were also won in different ways, handling the ball differently.”