Daniele De Rossi says that he’s happy with what he noticed from his gamers on his Genoa debut, however insists that his workforce ‘can play so significantly better than this’ after Sunday’s 2-2 draw with the struggling Fiorentina in Serie A.
De Rossi was appointed head coach of Genoa on Thursday following the sacking of Patrick Vieira, three days earlier than Genoa’s match in opposition to Fiorentina. La Viola had additionally changed Stefano Pioli with Paolo Vanoli within the days main as much as Sunday’s early relegation six-pointer.
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Targets from Leo Ostigard and Lorenzo Colombo cancelled out strikes from Fiorentina’s Albert Gudmundsson and Roberto Piccoli in an eventual 2-2 draw on the Stadio Luigi Ferraris.
De Rossi: ‘These are the kinds of conditions once you want coronary heart’
GENOA, ITALY – NOVEMBER 09: Leo Ostigard of Genoa celebrates scoring his workforce’s first objective through the Serie A match between Genoa CFC and ACF Fiorentina at Luigi Ferraris Stadium on November 09, 2025 in Genoa, Italy. (Photograph by Simone Arveda/Getty Photographs)
With little time to work together with his new squad, De Rossi says that the perspective of his gamers is what was most essential, and he feels that his aspect confirmed loads of positivity.
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“I’m very pleased with the perspective. They’re unimaginable guys, who you might be as an individual begins from the center. These are the kinds of conditions once you want coronary heart. We additionally must work onerous. We tried to win, I’m happy,” De Rossi DAZN after full-time.
Having equalised three minutes after falling 2-1 behind, De Rossi was requested if he desires to see a ‘by no means say die’ perspective from his squad.
“That’s the premise we have to begin from,” he replied. “You may’t underestimate this kind of braveness or want. They did properly to remain within the sport. I might have additionally favored to have scored another.
GENOA, ITALY – NOVEMBER 09: Lorenzo Colombo of Genoa celebrates scoring his workforce’s second objective through the Serie A match between Genoa CFC and ACF Fiorentina at Luigi Ferraris Stadium on November 09, 2025 in Genoa, Italy. (Photograph by Simone Arveda/Getty Photographs)
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“I feel that we will play so much higher than this, we will begin over. For my part, we now have to work so much on the small print, they’ve to know what I wish to see. It might have been silly if I’d come right here right this moment asking them to do plenty of sophisticated issues. Fiorentina are robust, we performed a stable sport.”
And when requested if lacking out on a visit to Argentina to observe Boca Juniors play in opposition to River Plate to be able to take over at Genoa was worthwhile, De Rossi mentioned: “It was value it, I do the job that I really like. I’ve felt greater chills than had I returned to Buenos Aires.”