Roma manager Gian Piero Gasperini was interviewed shortly after the Giallorossi\u2019s 2-3 defeat to Torino in Coppa Italia.<\/p>\n
In his post-match analysis with Sport Mediaset, Gasperini said, \u201cI saw a lot of good things; the boys came back twice. We rotated the squad a lot; there were chances even with Arena, and we could have won. The goal conceded from a corner leaves us disappointed; we thought we were going to penalties.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m satisfied with what I have; we had a very good first half of the season and everyone responded positively. Right now, there\u2019s talk of the transfer market, but we have games to play. I\u2019m happy for Arena; he\u2019s 16. Now another very young player has arrived; we\u2019ll try to make the most of these guys.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Robinio Vaz\u2019s signing, \u201cIt\u2019s part of the vision of a team that thinks from a long-term perspective. There\u2019s a very long-term project here.\u201d<\/p>\n
On 16-year-old Arena scoring on his senior debut: \u201cHe\u2019s incredibly competitive, has tons of strength, and is fearless. He also plays for the national team\u2019s youth teams. We\u2019re talking about very young players, and that should be the principle. It\u2019s not true that I\u2019m disappointed; I\u2019m very satisfied. I\u2019m disappointed by the goal we conceded in the 90th minute, otherwise it would have been a positive match for the spirit shown on the pitch and for these young players.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis was a good match. If the goal is to develop the players, that\u2019s fine, as long as it\u2019s clear and we also let the 16-year-olds and the Primavera players play.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe team is definitely competitive, otherwise it wouldn\u2019t have achieved these results. We\u2019re a team with great spirit; for example, Bailey showed lively play this evening, but he played out of position. I thank him for what he brought to the table. Perhaps a young player like Arena, with the qualities of a striker, was more decisive than him. We\u2019re lacking in some situations, and less so in others. We need to figure out what we need to do: whether to be competitive immediately or focus on youth.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roma manager Gian Piero Gasperini was interviewed shortly after the Giallorossi\u2019s 2-3 defeat to Torino in Coppa Italia.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-406013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406013","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=406013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}