Gasperini: Roma Has an Extraordinary Team Atmosphere, and the Players Created It

On September 6 at 2:45 AM CEST (Beijing time), Roma will host Atalanta in Serie A Matchday 3. Ahead of the match, Roma manager Gasperini attended a press conference. This article is the fourth part of that press conference.

Coach, you just reiterated and emphasized the topic you often mentioned last season—"dedication, teamwork, and sacrifice"—about this exceptionally strong team. After reading your recent in-depth interview published in the media, I have a very strong feeling that you've fallen in love with this team and truly love these wonderful players. Am I right?

Yes, absolutely. It's become an environment where you wake up every morning feeling excited and eager to walk through the door. Here, we train together, sweat together, discuss tactics together, and spend a lot of time with each other every day. Especially now, with European away matches starting, we'll be spending even more time together.

When you're in an environment free of conflict, personal grievances, and animosity—where no one harbors resentment—but rather a genuinely good environment where everyone truly wants to be together, enjoy training, and fight as one, that magnetic atmosphere is truly unmatched. You can't even imagine their enthusiasm and joy during intense daily training sessions. Even when it's scorching hot outside and everyone is exhausted from the demanding workload, there's still laughter and fighting spirit on the pitch.

This is an extraordinary team atmosphere, and the primary credit for creating it undoubtedly goes to these wonderful players. Right now, I want to proudly and gratefully tell everyone: setting aside the inevitable emotional fluctuations caused by match results in professional football, what we've built here at Roma is a truly healthy, positive, and vibrant team and dressing room environment.

Coach, in your tactical habits, whenever you face opponents with a four-man defensive system, you often deploy two strikers up front with a very creative attacking midfielder behind them to orchestrate and support. So I'd like to ask: besides tomorrow's match, could we possibly see Castro and Malen start together up front in the future? Also, in your opinion, does the young talent Mora have the tactical qualities to play as one of the two strikers, taking on a leading role or providing support for his attacking partner?

Undoubtedly, all our forwards have excellent versatility and tactical flexibility, able to perfectly read, execute, and adapt to various tactical approaches and formation changes. In this regard, I'm 100% confident and have never had any doubts. Moreover, as Castro and Mora participate in more high-intensity matches, they will certainly demonstrate richer and deeper integration possibilities in the future. As for key players like Soule, Malen, Dybala, and Pellegrini, who have already proven themselves, no matter how we arrange our attacking combinations and movements, they face no obstacles and have no issues with their understanding.

Coach, everyone knows that your opponent's manager Sarri is famous in football for his almost obsessive and compulsive demands for possession-based play, pressing intensity, and technical perfection down to the smallest detail. For tomorrow's difficult match, have you prepared a special tactical "antidote" designed to disrupt and dismantle their comfortable rhythm of passing and controlling the ball freely on the pitch, forcing them to play awkwardly and uncomfortably?

It must be acknowledged that Atalanta is a strong team with elite-level standards and very high tactical value at a purely technical level. Tomorrow we'll face an opponent whose strength cannot be underestimated and who have won two consecutive Serie A matches with high morale. Moreover, they made very impressive and targeted reinforcements in the transfer window that just closed, signing players like Kessie and Jonathan Rowe—players capable of standing out in top leagues—at the end of the summer transfer window.

Building on their already extensive squad depth, their current squad depth and quality represents a genuine elite-level configuration capable of going far in Europe's top competitions. They have strong bench depth and numerous tactically reliable, experienced key players.

Of course, it's common knowledge in football that a new manager always needs some matches and time to integrate his formation and implement his tactical philosophy. However, at the same time, Manager Sarri's managerial caliber, tactical philosophy, and deep tactical expertise are recognized throughout European football. Therefore, they're still capable of winning easily and maintaining a perfect record during this initial adjustment period, which greatly facilitates and accelerates their tactical transformation and transition. As the season progresses, time is clearly on their side.

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