The head coach of the Roman "Roma" Ivan Yurich commented on his team’s defeat by "Verona" (2:3) in yesterday’s match of the 11th round of the Italian championship and also explained why he substituted the Ukrainian forward of his team Artem Dovbik in the 74th minute of the match, who had previously scored a goal.
"Am I expecting any measures from the club regarding myself? Don’t ask me such questions! In my opinion, our team performed better than in the previous match against "Torino". We make too obvious mistakes and also pay for the refereeing mistakes. But overall, our game today was at a very good level. The rest doesn’t concern me. I see great progress from the team and continue in the same spirit.
Perhaps we lack something in defense. But we have solutions in attack. The team is starting to feel the game and enjoy such matches where we dominate. In this situation, we need to understand that the mistakes we make are indeed serious. One of them led to the first conceded goal today. Let’s hope these mistakes will pass.
As for Dovbik’s substitution, he simply couldn’t hold on anymore by that time, so I substituted him for Baldanzi.
I feel sorry for the guys because they had an incredible match today in terms of intensity, the demonstrated play, and the created goal-scoring opportunities. We lost due to one counterattack," said Yurich after the match against "Verona".
Recall that shortly before the match against "Verona", Dovbik had been ill with a virus, due to which he missed the previous match of "Roma" against "Torino".
Dovbik’s goal in the match "Verona" — "Roma":