Succession with succession

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When Claudio Ranieri took over as Rome in the middle of mid -November – for the third time in his career – the club season almost seemed. Two coaches, the legend of the Daniele de Rossi club and Ivan Juric, had already been released, the Gallorossi took twelve and that looked more like damage than after an international glamor. Six months later, the Roma again operated the door of the Champions League and is undefeated in 19 series A matches. What is the 73-year-old man, whose artificial intelligence has long circulated photos in the pope’s dress on the Internet, took with the team?

0: 1 against the head of the current League Napoli and 0: 2 against the third in Atalanta was the first results of Ranieri as a Roma coach, the club, where he himself became a professional in 1972. There was also a 2-2 in the Europa League against Tottenham. Regarding the results, few had improved. In the weeks that followed, in particular on 0: 2 in the como on December 15, the team showed a fun and combative reaction which had not existed under Rossi and Juric. « I am often consulted in problematic situations of the clubs and I try to transmit serenity and a hard work morality and to restore confidence, » said Ranieri, who has long been called San Claudio (Le Saint Claudio) in Rome, during the season in « Dazn » in Italy.

Subsequently, Roma failed in the quarterfinals of COPPA Italia on today’s finalist AC Milan and was eliminated in the Europa League against Bilbao Sports Semi -final – but there has been no defeat in the League since this match against Como. Of 19 games, Ranieri and his players won 14 victories. After the 1-0 against the European Cup rival, AC Florence on Sunday, even the Champions League is at hand. With the fourth Juventus, Roma is tied after 35 games, the teams each have 63 points. Capitals have well -known adversaries with Atalanta, Milan and Torino. The old lady plays against Lazio, who is still fighting for fourth place with the same number of points, Udinese and candidate for Venezia relegation.

« The Roma always had a good team, but there have been problems with the coaches, » said Jatin Dietl, director of the Italy region on the transfer market. « In my opinion, Rossi is very good at pushing emotions and motivation, so they have finished the last season. But there are still missing other qualities, such as finding the right answer to a crisis. This is one of the reasons why the team started so badly. With Juric, that did not correspond.

Dybala, Koné & Co.: Ranieri excites the potential of Romas

The former master, who started his coach career almost 40 years ago and formed 18 different clubs and Greece at an international level, said in an interview « Gazzetta » which he had « vaccinated against each situation ». Its greatest success dates from 2015 when he led Leicester City as the Premier League of the greatest sensations in the history of (Site notre bureau spécialisé). For the held novelist, the damage to the Champions League could even get closer to this season.

« The team is good, » said Dietl again. « You have very strong players like Paulo Dybala, who has even disappeared for weeks, and summer access Manu Koné, who may have taken the biggest step under Ranieri. In addition, the coach made key players like Leandro Paredes, Gianluca Mecini, Angeliño, also Mats Hummels and for a few weeks in Matías Soulé. » The Roma first obtained the compulsory points against the teams of the lower half of the table, but more recently, there were also eight points against Lazio (1: 1), Juventus (1: 1), Inter (1: 0) and Fiorentina (1: 0).

« It almost seems that it does not matter who is the serial opponent. Consequently, they obtained 20 on 24 possible points from the last eight games, although they have never scored more than one goal per match – efficiency with simultaneous defensive force.

The Italian expert continues: « At the start of the season, the Roma put a lot of possession without knowing exactly what to do – it seemed to be more dangerous than the opponent in the game of passes. Roma missed a more vertical style compared to Rossi, and the team found a way to become dangerous. The files are always at the front.

Ranieri decides the successor as Roma

Ranieri’s Return from Retirement will end in next summer – probably as a coach that led Roma in a season during which the midfielder to be the highest feelings was still led to Europe. Then, he will support the owners and sports director Florent Ghisolfi in an advisory role in all sports issues. Ranieri will also have his say in the search for his successor.

Who will always be completely open. Carlo Ancelotti, Stefano Pioli, Gian Piero Gasperini and Maurizio Sarri have already been exchanged, but in particular the first three seem now unrealistic. Francesco Farioli and Cesc fàgas of the other end of the experience are the surnames mentioned. Almost no one in Rome currently doubts that Ranieri also finds an answer to this open question.