Gasperini

Gian Piero Gasperini had his say on what went flawed in , admitting they ‘didn’t play the way in which we wished to’ on this Scudetto battle.

The Giallorossi coach was pressured to observe from the stands of the Stadio Olimpico, as he sat out a touchline ban prompted by the purple card for dissent in final week’s win over Cremonese.

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He gave the impression to be livid from there too when Manu Koné was challenged by Amir Rrahmani on the sting of the world, because the referee waved play on for Napoli to go on the fast counter-attack and rating via David Neres.

The footage was proven to the coach and analysed by refereeing pundit Luca Marelli, who famous Rrahmani clearly made contact with the ball.

Gasperini acknowledges Roma errors

ROME, ITALY – NOVEMBER 27: AS Roma head coach Gian Piero Gasperini seems to be on through the UEFA Europa League 2025/26 League Part MD5 match between AS Roma and FC Midtjylland at Stadio Olimpico on November 27, 2025 in Rome, Italy. (Picture by Paolo Bruno/Getty Photographs)

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“These incidents might be seen in many alternative methods, I wouldn’t say it was so clear, because the participant raises his leg after touching the ball and catches Kone’s leg. We see many sliding tackles like that that are given as fouls,”

“In any case, we had been nonetheless badly unbalanced in that scenario with Hermoso and Mancini out of place, so had been the wing-backs, so there have been our personal errors on this scenario that we should always not have allowed.

“It was our error, the one time we actually allowed that counter-attack, even within the second half once we had been chasing the sport.”

The counter-attack does appear to be a weak spot for Roma this season, because it additionally was underneath Ivan Juric and Daniele De Rossi earlier than him. Claudio Ranieri had solved it by defending deeper, however that isn’t Gasperini’s philosophy.

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“We’ve had many video games the place we conceded only a few targets. Apart from, by defending deeper, you allow your self open to conceding various kinds of targets. We went into this match as Serie A leaders due to our model of soccer, however naturally there must be stability and protection, which we didn’t do on that event.”

ROME, ITALY – NOVEMBER 30: Lorenzo Pellegrini of AS Roma controls the ball while underneath strain from Sam Beukema of Napoli through the Serie A match between AS Roma and SSC Napoli at Stadio Olimpico on November 30, 2025 in Rome, Italy. (Picture by Paolo Bruno/Getty Photographs)

Paulo Dybala made his comeback on Thursday within the Europa League win over Midtjylland and had been anticipated to start out this night, however solely got here on halfway via the second half.

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Though they dominated possession, the one real scoring alternative was within the remaining minute, with a Vanja Milinkovic-Savic save on Tommaso Baldanzi.

“Napoli had only a few possibilities too, what disappoints us is that we didn’t have the precise power, as we paid a heavy value for Thursday’s Europa League sport and didn’t have the precise tempo, nor transfer the ball shortly sufficient. If you find yourself up in opposition to the organisation of Napoli, that turns into damaging.

“Sadly, we had been just a little patched up in the present day and didn’t get to play the way in which we wished to on this huge match,” defined Gasperini.

ROME, ITALY – NOVEMBER 30: Gamers of AS Roma pose for a workforce {photograph} previous to the Serie A match between AS Roma and SSC Napoli at Stadio Olimpico on November 30, 2025 in Rome, Italy. (Picture by Paolo Bruno/Getty Photographs)

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Roma have struggled within the huge video games to this point this season, dropping the head-to-head battles with Inter, AC Milan and now Napoli, all of them by 1-0 scorelines.

Curiously, all 4 of their losses in Serie A this season had been 1-0, and three of them had been on the Stadio Olimpico.

“They had been all completely different video games. The tempo was slower from each groups, it wasn’t as entertaining as we’d develop into accustomed to,” replied Gasperini.

“It’s a pity, we didn’t have the mandatory power. The season could be very lengthy, it is vitally tight on the high and virtually like an elimination competitors with the significance of each consequence and so many groups concerned.

“Now we’ve got every week to arrange and relaxation, then we’ll return into having a sport each three days. We should study from matches like this and take them ahead.”