Roma is ready to take to the field. This evening Ivan Juric’s team will face Athletic Bilbao in the first matchday of the Europa League single-group stage. A difficult challenge but an opponent that Mario Beautiful knows him very well having faced him in Spain. The Giallorossi defender spoke to the microphones of Sky Sports of the next European commitment:
“We all know Athletic Club – began the centre-back who arrived in the capital in the last transfer window – they have a well-defined philosophy, players who give everything for the team, they defend well as a team. They have strong players, ready for physical duels, they have incorporated talented players. They must be faced in the right way, we must match their physical strength, it will be a match characterised by physical duels.
Pisilli? Speaking of young players, Pisilli is perhaps one of the least known to the general public because he hasn’t had a long career yet. He is certainly a great player, with personality and who has a characteristic that I consider fundamental in modern football, that is, not feeling the pressure when he has the ball at his feet. The ball doesn’t burn him and – he concluded – in my opinion it is one of those characteristics that a player has and can hardly learn”.