Roma midfielder Neil El Aynaoui shared his impressions from his first official outing at the Stadio Olimpico in last night\u2019s 1-0 win over Bologna.<\/p>\n
The Moroccan player told reporters after the game, \u201cMy first time at the Olimpico, my teammates talked a bit about the place I\u2019d find, but it even exceeded my expectations.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMy role? I\u2019m available wherever the team needs me. When I came on the pitch, the coach gave me clear instructions on how to play, both defensively and offensively. He asked me to play the ball up front.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLigue 1 is also a slightly different league; Italy is more tactical. They\u2019d already warned me there wouldn\u2019t be any easy matches; we saw that today, and the teams are clearly much more solid.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are always things to improve. Today we played the game we wanted. We set it up this way, both defensively and offensively. Now we need to continue working as we\u2019ve been doing everything else since the start of preparation. We need to focus on the next match.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAs for the Moroccan national team, I\u2019ve been in contact with the coach. They told me to keep it up. If I get a call, I\u2019ll be happy.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u00a0arrived at a big club, it\u2019s normal that there is competition in all roles, there are great players in all positions on the pitch and honestly I have no preference in a midfield whether it\u2019s 2, 3 or 4.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roma midfielder Neil El Aynaoui shared his impressions from his first official outing at the Stadio Olimpico in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-106548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}