Roma-Turin, Giampaolo: ‘I will change several things …’

“It is time to be with the Taurus. No more gossip, shortcuts, and alibis. And being with Toro means being above the interests of each one of us, including the coach ”. Marco Giampaolo does not beat around the bush, and on the eve of the Olympico home game at Roma, he outlines with absolute clarity the priorities of the team called up in recent days by President Urbano Cairo to bring out self-love, character and personality as men. “We are in a position to be able to look our rival very little in the face – says Giampaolo -. Rather, tomorrow from the team I expect a response of compactness, determination, attachment and pride. What I don’t expect are alibis and gossip. “

The formulary

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When Giampaolo is asked how the team and costumes have received the harsh words of President Cairo these days, he responds: “It is not about who is with whom. The Taurus is above the interests of each one of us: being with Taurus. A formulary should be written, at which point one should be written: Taurus is above the interests of each of you, including the coach. Being with Taurus means that you have to give an answer by demonstrating those qualities that I mentioned earlier. All the rest is quackery, in which one can insinuate oneself and find shortcuts. Facts are needed, everything else just fills the pages of the newspapers and fuels the talk.

Rome on the way

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Tomorrow night the commitment will be severe: the grenades will be called to a change of pace against a Rome that returns from the overwhelming victory in Bologna. “Roma is not a highly codified team, but of all the ones we have met so far, it is the one with the best dribbling quality – observes the Torino coach -. It will be a difficult game, which will have to be faced without passively accepting the rival’s technical value. Instead, we have to play, propose, haggle: it is a mantra that I repeat from the first day I arrived from Toro. Otherwise, we will always be there with our heads in the defensive phase, and we will die of non-possession ”.

So many line-up changes

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Tomorrow, Toro will be at the Olimpico with many changes in the formation. A perspective that Giampaolo confirms from a reflection on the value of the five substitutions offered by current regulations. “Five changes are an asset for the great teams – he emphasizes -, an opportunity for the others. And when there is a goalkeeper in difficulty, both hypotheses apply: you can insist and you can even change. Then there are moments when you have to reflect. And right now we have 3 games to play in 7 days: in this tour de force we have one more opportunity to reaffirm the strength of a group. Because I must necessarily call the energies of each of them to meet. This is a speech that he had given to the team even before Udinese: we have the opportunity to reiterate how much we are a group and a team. In tomorrow’s game and in the next two I am in the position of having to change several things, independently of Sirigu ”.