Wolves’ latest defeat to Lazio in the Italian Cup ended up hitting the locker room, as the Portuguese made clear in the preview of the match against Milan.
In the middle of the week, José Mourinho’s Roma suffered a big blow. The Loba team lost 1-0 to Lazio in the quarter-finals of the Italian Cup, a situation which had a profound impact in the dressing room.
And this Saturday, as the clash against Milan in Serie A approaches, Mourinho has hidden nothing to explain the painful defeat in the Roman derby. .
Of course, he first wanted to reaffirm his attachment to the institution. “I’ve been here two years and five months and I’m the only person on this team who hasn’t missed a single practice. “, he began to emphasize.
“Months ago I needed a day off for a situation I don’t need to explain. I told the manager and we decided it would be after the derby. I was out of Rome for 15 hours and it seems ridiculous to have to justify this. I do not accept in any way that my professionalism and my dignity, my heart for this work, are called into question. If there is a perfect example of professionalism, it’s me. . “I have never missed a match in more than 20 years of career,” continued the Portuguese.
Then, when asked the reason why the club did not apologize to the fans after the image shown against Lazio, he replied: “I am also the club. I am not a manager, I am a coach but I am the club. While I’m here, I view myself as the club and I view my words as words that people outside want to hear. It’s not just a duty, it’s my way of being and at this moment I believe that my words are very objective. I don’t know how many derbies I’ve played, 150, 200… I know what a derby is . “I always understood that for a Chelsea fan, playing against Arsenal is not the same as playing against Manchester City and that for an Inter fan, playing against Juventus is not the same as play against Roma.”
Regarding tomorrow’s rival, Milan, he said that “they will put everything into this match, they know our difficulties, it seems that everyone knows them except some journalists or commentators. Everyone knows our difficulties, I spoke with some players about their attitude and I have no problem because I have a lot of respect and loyalty with them, I say everything very clearly. “. “The meeting was tough, especially with some of them. There are people who necessarily have to give more from an individual point of view. “.
He also recalled that “we experienced two difficult periods: the first three championship matches with 1 point, players unavailable and injured… If someone does not want to interpret this as a real difficulty, it is not just. Criticizing is good, but forgetting the difficulty of our moment is crazy. With Milan we will be there, I will regret not being on the bench, I will be in the stands, in a habitat where I am not welcome, but I will be there to try to do my job “.
Finally, the Portuguese indicated that Dybala will not be able to play and recalled how difficult it is to resolve this problem. “Finding solutions to play without Dybala is not the same as finding the solution to play without Haaland for Guardiola, because he has Álvarez. If Pochettino can’t count on Sterling, Mudryk plays, and if Díaz doesn’t play for Klopp, Jota plays. If anyone doesn’t want to understand that Rome without Paulo Dybala is a different Rome, I can’t say much more. “, hill.
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