“The data speaks and it’s not like anyone can hide. Each season is different, something was missing, even I made mistakes. It’s normal that when this happens, everything becomes more difficult.” Roma’s central defense Elena Linari he spoke like this in the press conference on the eve of the Women’s Champions League match against Galatasaray, focusing on the defensive fragility shown at the start of the season: “The teams we faced are strong, they played excellent games against us, we held up against one of the most strong in Europe, there is a bit of malice missing in some matches, but nothing too critical, these are quite normal things for a team that wants to attack and dominate the game. – continues Linari as reported Vocegiallorossa.it – The situations of the opposing teams are favorable, they score goals. It’s such a period, you just need to keep the mentality and prove it again.”
Can the 9 point gap with Juventus be closed? Is there the same confidence as last year?
“The objective is very clear, we don’t want to lose the championship easily. The ranking hurts us, we certainly lost important points before Juventus, you can even lose with them. This team wants to believe it, we just have to start again united and compact towards the goal. This team has demonstrated character, unity and unity, we want to demonstrate it tomorrow too.”
How much will you use the regret of the match against Juventus for tomorrow’s match?
“When you lose a match like this it hurts you, but these are things that can happen. You must immediately find the energy to start again at two thousand, we will try to convey to all our teammates that we want to redeem ourselves, we want to take back the pieces that we have lost”.
Last year, in December, you were in a press conference before the match against PSG: what has changed since then? How do you experience this situation?
“We hope it’s the opposite, that after the interview the trend will change (laughs, ed.). It’s a new season, we always look back to the past but we’ve been doing very well for 2 years. There have been some changes and it is normal that this involves an adaptation, but the performances were there, then in case we didn’t materialize them and we conceded. Probably, that something extra was missing but the performance was there. We shouldn’t have conceded goals and scored goals, which we had last year, we need to rewind and reflect. We have been doing well for 2 years and playing a lot, perhaps only against Sassuolo did we do badly. There are moments that all teams go through, we have to look at it from a wide angle and not always everything goes well, you are not always the favourite. It is a moment that is part of a season, the important thing is to face them head on, unite and regroup. It’s the beauty of being able to play in the Champions League, you don’t even have time to think too much about it. We have already chased in the past, then it is a different condition compared to the recent past, nine points are a lot, we know the importance of these two matches and we must not hide, we would be stupid. You need personality.”