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Leverkusen
09/05/202419:00
AS Roma

Xabi Alonso

Manager on Leverkusen
Meeting Highlights

...ABOUT THE MATCH

Second legs are always dangerous, so the result from last week is irrelevant. A goal from Roma tomorrow can immediately change the game. We need to go into the match with the highest concentration again.

...HOME ADVANTAGE

I'm ecpeting top spectacle with a great atmosphere. I remember the support from last year. We’ll need that sort of energy from the fans again tomorrow. We obviously haven’t forgotten what happened last year, the pain we felt. We hope we can celebrate this time.

Daniele De Rossi

Manager on AS Roma
Meeting Highlights

…DYBALA

No one will be preserved in view of Bergamo. The assessments I will make will be done with the players and the doctors, but they will not be made in view of Bergamo. We must carefully evaluate how he is, how the others are doing. A few days have passed. We will not make assessments on Sunday, this match is important for us and we cannot underestimate it. I want to have a good talk with him, with the doctor and I want to understand well.

…PREPARATION

We have to repeat the application in the search for goals. When we didn't do it it was because they were good. We pressed well, we created something. Even when the initial mood and inertia had faded a bit , we tried until the end. And this is the best start in view of the first match. We know that the result is difficult, it is difficult because they have never lost but to believe in it and try until the end, like we did in the first leg. We know it will be hard to bring home the result, but that's why we came here. I don't know what I'll say, something off the cuff probably. That time with Barcelona I said that I trusted the group. Tomorrow I'll definitely say it again. I know that I can trust them and we can try to do a small feat. That time we were so doomed that the situation was different. Everything makes me think that we can recreate that atmosphere and try to play with it.

…BAYER LEVERKUSEN

These are errors but not committed by the technical staff or the players. They are things that belong to something else, to the ticket office or to whoever manages these things here. I think that the Bayer team and staff are well concentrated on facing the match well and there is no doubt he will snub it. We've all seen it, we've commented on it, but it doesn't keep us sleepy and we don't need any more provocations.I don't know. In the first leg we thought they would play against a top striker but we knew there could also be a false nine hypothesis and we had prepared ourselves. This is the beauty of this job. When you have two days to prepare for a match, the first day is relaxing and the second is match preparation on the pitch and on video. You try to give some possible information and you hope they remember them. If something changes, you tell them before the match. If they change again on the pitch, you tell them from the bench.

Xabi Alonso

Leverkusen

Daniele De Rossi

AS Roma
Meeting Highlights

...ABOUT THE MATCH

Second legs are always dangerous, so the result from last week is irrelevant. A goal from Roma tomorrow can immediately change the game. We need to go into the match with the highest concentration again.

...HOME ADVANTAGE

I'm ecpeting top spectacle with a great atmosphere. I remember the support from last year. We’ll need that sort of energy from the fans again tomorrow. We obviously haven’t forgotten what happened last year, the pain we felt. We hope we can celebrate this time.