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10.55pm – In a little while Ivan Juric, Roma coachcomments in the press conference on the 5-1 defeat on the Fiorentina pitch.
11.30pm – The press conference begins.
What did you do wrong?
“Everything. Really everything. There is little to explain, this team had shown great solidity in the seven games, conceding few goals and shots and making convincing performances on the organisation, but tonight nothing worked. Rarely in my life have evenings of this guy.”
Why two changes after half an hour?
“There’s little to say. If I could have done more, I would have. There are players in whom I believe a lot who I’ve seen lost. I chose two players, I could have gone for others. It happens that we concede goals, but even at 0-0 it would be It was the same: I had never seen some holes in these forty days.
Have you spoken to the company? Do you feel them close?
“We all talked about it together. The team has been carrying great frustration for some time and has collapsed emotionally: this is the final feeling of things. Incredible that these guys would have deserved it against Inter a few days ago and today they collapse like this. We really gave away some goals It may have been an accumulated frustration then translated into an emotional breakdown.”
More disappointed by men or footballers?
“If anything was missing in the seven games before this one it was being more like animals and bastards in certain situations. There were excellent performances, of dominance, but with a few goals given away. Tonight, honestly, everything was missing. The defensive phase, that offensive… Everything. There’s nothing to say that we did well or it went badly. And for me it’s very strange, an evening like this, after the first seven games, let’s recover: Roma must do it.”
Have you ever thought about resigning? Do you feel comfortable?
“I’ve never thought about it, absolutely. One evening doesn’t change forty days. I’ve seen matches that are totally different from this one and very good, following my idea that it can be improved further. I’ve never had negative feelings, tonight everything is bad. I think absolutely that the team is with me, or they wouldn’t have done it like this, growing up so much. The players are the most disappointed.”