DI FRANCESCO PRESS CONFERENCE
Coach Eusebio Di Francesco faced the media on Monday afternoon, speaking to journalists ahead of the Champions League meeting with CSKA Moscow.
How are you preparing the team for the match after the SPAL game?
"You don’t just prepare for how you’re going to approach games in the last two hours. We started well on Saturday in terms of our desire to take the game to them – we fell down on the final ball and then in the second half we lost our way. Only those players that weren’t involved trained yesterday so today I will see how the players are. We need to rebuild a few things mentally".
How are Daniele De Rossi, Aleksandar Kolarov and Patrik Schick?
"They may all recover. I’ll have the definitive response on De Rossi and Kolarov after the session today. If they’re both fit, they’ll be in the squad. Schick had some muscle inflammation but he trained yesterday".
Is 4-2-3-1 the right system for the whole season or just for now?
"I went with it mainly to mix it up a bit. Both the 4-3-3 and the 4-2-3-1 are dynamic systems and require the players to create triangles in both attack and defence. Right now I want to keep going with this system in order to make the most of the characteristics of the players, who have the required energy for it".
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