Ranieri applauds win over Athletic Bilbao: “My boys are wonderful.” | OneFootball

Claudio Ranieri praised Roma’s performance in the first leg of the Europa League Round of 16 versus Athletic Club Bilbao.

In the post-match interview with Sky Sport, the Roma boss said, “We know that we are a hard team to digest, we fight for every ball and we still have a 50% chance of advancing to the next round.”

“We must continue on this path, it is difficult to find a right gap: today Athletic closed very well on the wings, the two brothers have a motorcycle instead of legs.”

“We had to help the defenders to double and triple on their opponent: we have to improve in the small details that are the most difficult things, and that is what makes a team great.”

“We all make mistakes, if someone starts stringing all the beads the boys lose confidence in themselves and that’s not good. They must be free to play as they know how, I give them instructions and we study the opponents a lot, but also how we can improve.”

“I have wonderful boys at my disposal, and this is a satisfaction for every coach who finds this type of players. I always say that you can win or lose, but you have to fight until the end and believe in what we are doing.”

“The games are decided on episodes for or against: if you give up when everything goes wrong, you never recover. If you believe in yourself you can do things that a few months ago you couldn’t do.”