Ivan Juric Europa League Roma (Photograph by Paolo Bruno/Getty Photographs)
Ivan Juric noticed ‘plenty of positives’ from Roma’s 1-1 Europa League draw with Athletic Membership, regrets wasted possibilities and divulges Paulo Dybala went off with a muscular drawback.
The Giallorossi had a powerful begin, took the lead by Artem Dovbyk and dominated possession within the first half, however didn’t capitalise on that stress.
As an alternative, they sat again more and more deep after the restart and finally capitulated to the Aitor Paredes header on a knocked down free kick for the ultimate 1-1 outcome.
“I noticed moments of nice soccer, however Athletic are extra accustomed to any such lengthy ball sport and wouldn’t even enable us to press them within the second half. Regardless of that, they didn’t actually create many possibilities aside from the objective,” Juric informed Sky Sport Italia.
“It’s a pity, as we created alternatives and didn’t take them, together with the one with Soulé within the second half. We have been punished for not taking advantage of these possibilities, we must always’ve been extra medical, however I noticed quite a lot of positives.”
The equaliser was an Alex Berenguer free kick that was nodded down on the again put up by Unai Gomez for the Paredes header from six yards, so what went flawed with the marking?
“Mario was there, Angelino jumps too even when he’s quick, it was two in opposition to one, so the positions have been proper. These are small particulars, if that they had been just a little bit extra open then they could’ve bought the ball. It’s a pity, however these are small particulars.”
Juric reveals Dybala damage scare for Roma
Dybala was changed by Soulé at half-time, however whereas many assumed this was a deliberate change, Juric revealed it was right down to an damage.
“He felt a twinge, we’ll see. We definitely didn’t need to run any dangers. We’ll need to see tomorrow, there’s no level speaking about it now.”
Zeki Celik additionally went off with a muscular drawback and these maybe pressured Juric to make use of up substitutions that might not be used for different alternate options.
“We had hoped to play Dybala for 60-70 minutes. As they launched nice gamers and we misplaced depth, they gained floor,” added the coach.
Utilizing Dybala and Tommaso Baldanzi between the traces in help of Dovbyk had labored to trigger Athletic Membership issues.
“I’ve 5 – 6 actually attention-grabbing younger gamers to work with and Baldanzi actually impressed me, as he works in assault and defence, you’ll be able to see he labored on his energy and alter of tempo. Whether or not as a trequartista or a mezz’ala, he can do both very nicely. Pisilli too is raring to study, you’ll be able to see how shortly they take in these concepts,” continued Juric.
“We have been a bit too sluggish transferring it round for the primary 10 minutes, however from then on we gained confidence and dominated them in each approach. We must always’ve scored extra objectives, as we by no means allow them to previous our centre-circle.
“I noticed quite a lot of positives in these first two video games, now we are going to attempt to maintain this perspective for the subsequent match. I believe the lads understood my concepts right this moment and interpreted them the best approach.”
