Mourinho motivates team ahead of Europa League return leg. The club of Roma, managed by Jose Mourinho, was pumped up and ready to play RB Salzburg in the second leg of their Europa League match on Thursday night.
Mourinho motivates team ahead of Europa League return leg
After his team’s victory over Hellas Verona, The Special One gave a presentation in which he discussed the limitations of their efforts.
“We worked really well during the international break,” Mourinho told reporters at full-time.
“The team had more quality once we came back in January. Players like Mancini, Cristante and Ibanez, have all improved. Chris [Smalling] isn’t too young, but there are players who are clearly growing in quality.”
“The kids are growing too. Usually, the teams that have the most media and social pressure to do great things are teams that don’t need to make their players grow. I’ve always had pressure to do important things, but I was working with top players, individuals of a very high level and experience.”
“In the meantime, these guys are still growing, we’ve been together for a year and a half. Bove is someone completely different from the Bove of a year and a half ago. When I arrived he was on his way to Serie C. Solbakken had never trained on real grass before.”
“Despite not getting the credit they deserve, the boys persevere and we go on. On Thursday there’s another crucial match, against a team that went to a SPA resort during the weekend, and only three of their starters played with Tirol.”
“On Thursday we go again. If we win it’s great if we lose we go home and we can sleep peacefully, even in the moment of defeat these players can feel at peace because they’re giving everything they can.”
