It was great to be a Roma fan last night. In fact, it’s great to be Roma fan since Jose Mourinho was sacked. When Daniele De Rossi took over, Giallorossi are winning and playing good, attractive attacking football. Even in Europe, they crushed the good Brighton side 4-0 in the Europa League and Romelu Lukaku was one of the scorers. The Belgian striker was lured to the capital city of Italy by Jose Mourinho, but the coaching change also suited him. Lukaku now has 298 goals at club level in his career.UEL: Dybala and Lukaku shoot down Seagulls in Rome“The coach gives me more freedom in midfield and to push up. I have to attack the space, whereas before I was asked to hold the ball up. It is the first time I am being used as the lone centre-forward in Italy, but I’m settling well and hope we can continue improving to go far in Serie A and the Europa League. Mourinho helped me and now De Rossi is too. I try to give my best for Roma, many people don’t know what my situation was, so I thank Roma” he said after the match.Daniele de Rossi has got AS Roma 𝑪𝑶𝑶𝑲𝑰𝑵𝑮 👨🍳🔥 pic.twitter.com/k0ULnzVkYZ— 433 (@433) March 7, 2024 Everybody knows that Giallorossi don’t have the cash to buy Lukaku, and yet they would like to keep him. On the other hand, Chelsea needs the cash and don’t want to loan the player for the third year. It will be interesting in June, but the Belgian was clever this time, and didn’t want to cause any problems in advance.“I don’t want to cause controversy in England, I have to be intelligent about this” he laughed when asked if he would like to stay in Rome.Anima e voce 💛❤️#ASRoma #RomaBrighton pic.twitter.com/5wIX2oPj1r— Il Romanista (@ilRomanistaweb) March 7, 2024 And the man who is responsible for the success, Daniele De Rossi shrugged off all claims that he is the ‘miracle man’.“I didn’t do much really, it just all slotted into place straight away and I’m very happy. The players I found here are very talented, I said it from the first day, we are winning the games that Roma ought to be winning. We’re a great squad and therefore we win, there’s nothing special in that” he told Sky Sport Italia.De Rossi, Instagram live videos and baseball bat ‘to th teeth’Former Roma captain who had a modest (and not so successful) coaching career before also had to downplay to remarks that he outplayed his good friend Roberto De Zerbi and ‘though him a lesson’.“Look, I don’t want to minimise how happy I am with the performance, and I did see a lot of things I liked, but in the second half we could’ve held the ball better. I love De Zerbi, so to prepare for a game against him you need to work twice as hard. I admit that I really drove the players a bit mad. You must respect your opponent in these matches, and Roberto’s teams always know what to do. However, you are acting as if I painted some masterpiece, perhaps the result is a bit too harsh and our goalkeeper had some saves to make too. Nobody is perfect, but the lads were fantastic tonight, including Lukaku and Dybala’s work off the ball. This is the kind of attitude you need in these games, otherwise you risk getting hammered” said De Rossi, who can expect a new contract coming soon, considering he singed the current one only until the end of the season.
