Tile on Roma on the eve of the transfer to Marassi with Genoa of the new coach Shevchenko: Cristante and Villar tested positive for Covid from the molecular swabs carried out following the periodic checks ordered by the company.
The two midfielders, which Mourinho will have to do without tomorrow, are both vaccinated.
Roma, which immediately informed the competent health authorities, let it be known that the players 'are fine and are in home isolation'.
"The work we have done during the week, and which you and your sources have understood and followed, is work that goes to the trash. What we have tried and trained obviously we have lost when we lost a player like Cristante ". In the words of José Mourinho at the press conference, on the eve of the championship match against Genoa, there is all the bitterness for the Covid cases that emerged this morning in Trigoria. The Roma coach then added: "We have to find solutions. There are those who will have to make a sacrifice and play in a position that is not theirs." On the other hand, those who ask him about the words of the chief executive officer Tiago Pinto and if he will have patience given the impossibility of building an 'instant team' he answers with a sharp "next question".No polemical intent towards the club, 'Mou' was in fact referring to phrases spoken by Antonio Conte, now at Tottenham.
Tomorrow Mourinho will face Shevchenko and for the Genoa coach he has only words to honey at the press conference.
"When you become the Golden Ball, winner of Champions and many titles, then you are the one who makes football history", said the Special One who then concluded with a joke: "He did well with Ukraine. He demonstrated to have an idea and a philosophy. I would like what happened to me at the first time as an official coach: I lost, but then I won many titles (laughs, ed) ".
Before leaving the press room, he then launched a clue for tomorrow.
When asked about the timing for Smalling's recovery he replied "maybe it will be ready by tomorrow".