Claudio Ranieri clarifies everything about Daniele De Rossi’s farewell

Claudio Ranieri, Roma coach, spoke in a press conference ahead of the challenge with Atalanta: ” the pride of us Italians, plays in a wonderful way. We are facing the third team with this philosophy: Napoli, Tottenham and now another team that always attacks, kudos to President Percassi because Atalanta è a perfect machine. Perfection does not exist, forò I dare say that è a perfect team”.

“But I saw a glimmer of light in my team again,” added the Roman coach, “I saw players who intensely want something positive. Right now we have to make our fans proud of what we are able to do. We are still not well physically, we cannot have everything and right away, but the negative notes that there were in Naples have been received. We have to improve the preventive, but we did well against Tottenham”.

So è returned to the exoneration of Daniele De Rossi: “I read that the blame for the exoneration of De Rossi è of Pellegrini, not è true nothing at all, this the fans must know. Né Mancini, né Cristante, né Pellegrini sent De Rossi away. In fact, they went crazy to make him stay, people need to know the truth.

More on Pellegrini: “I had two phenomena in my career as goal-scoring midfielders: Lampard and Pellegrini. We criticize him a lot, but how many midfielders score the goals that Pellegrini does? I have to help Roma, I can’t say how long this will last, in the meantime he is finding the goal in training, è a very sensitive and very introverted guy, he suffers more than anyone from this situation”.

Final comment on Dybala: “We will evaluate; Dybala training after training. He’s a player who can have some issues, and I have to avoid these issues. When he è turned on he did some wonderful things, but I have to evaluate well each time”.

Milan-Empoli, the probable formations

Milan receives Empoli in the fourteenth day of Serie A. Kickoff at 6 p.m. at the San Siro. The Rossoneri want to regain victory in the league after draws with Juventus and Cagliari. On the other side, the Azzurri are hunting for their fourth consecutive useful result.

Fonseca seems intent on launching both Morata and Abraham in attack. Midfield dike formed by Fofana and Reijnders, with Leao and Pulisic on the flanks. In defense recovered Emerson Royal, with Theo Hernandez on the left, in goal Maignan.

D’Aversa recovers Esposito, although Colombo should be confirmed from 1′ paired with Pellegri. Henderson in the midfield booth, with Anjorin and Maleh on his sides, on the outsides Gyasi and Pezzella. Defense headed by Ismajli, Vasquez between the posts.

Probable lineups

MILAN (4-4-2): Maignan; Emerson Royal, Tomori, Gabbia, Theo Hernandez; Pulisic, Fofana, Reijnders, Leao; Morata, Abraham. All. Fonseca.

EMPOLI (3-5-2): Vasquez; Goglichidze, Ismajli, Viti; Gyasi, Anjorin, Henderson, Maleh, Pezzella; Colombo, Pellegri. All. D’Aversa.

Nicola Pietrangeli mocks Jannik Sinner’s origins

Speaking during ‘Splendida Cornice’ a broadcast on Rai 3, Nicola Pietrangeli è returned to talk about Jannik Sinner, ironizing about the origins of the world number one, a native of San Candido, South Tyrol.

“Hi, I’m Nicola Pietrangeli,” he began, “You may remember me because I played football in the Lazio youth team. Eh, però I also played a few games of tennis. I wanted to say that Sinner è the best Italian tennis player of all time, and maybe even Austrian”.

“I personally loved tennis very much,” added the Italian tennis legend, “but compared to these players of today, I am an amateur. I mean, certainly not good. Long live tennis, long live Sinner and let’s throw in Berettini becauseé otherwise he gets mad at me”.

Pietrangeli è also indulged in a joke about the Davis Cup title he won with Chile in 1976: “We won it by f…, the Chileans were trying to come back but ran out of court rent that we had booked”.