Mourinho: “Betis is a quality team with a good coach”

the portuguese Jose Mourinhocoach of Romana, this Wednesday ensured that the game against Legs of the Europa League will be “very difficult” because the Andalusian team is “a quality team, with a clear identity, a good coach and a lot of experience”.

Legs Y Rome They will meet this Thursday at the Roman Olympic, in what will be the first confrontation between the two entities in an official match, the first of two attacks in seven days for the primacy of Group C of European Leaguethe Verdiblancos led with six points to the Italians’ three.

“Our difficulty is to play against a quality team, with a clear identity, a good coach and a lot of experience. They have their own philosophy which can be seen in the way they play. They are a team that wins and that is something which is easy if you’re not one of the top three Spain“, declared the Portuguese coach at the press conference before next Thursday’s clash at Olympic Stadium of Rome.

Mourinho will receive Betis in its coliseum, entrusted to get the victory: “It will be a very difficult game for us, but also for them. It will be eleven against eleven plus 60,000. Benito Villamarín is a fantastic stadium that supports his team, but I trust me, my bench and the 60,000 fans”.

Doubts on the eleven ‘giallorosso’ reside in the Argentine paulo dybala and the italian Lorenzo Pellegrini. Mourinho revealed that the ‘Jewel’ is “fine” to play, but he still needs to talk to Pellegrini to know if it is available or not.

“The Legs is a group with multiple solutions. if he plays churches either William José, Canales or Fekir, Canales and Fekir… I do not know. What Pellegrini He wouldn’t tell me what he was going to do, neither would I. I repeat to myself: the game will be difficult, eleven against eleven plus 60,000″, he replied when asked about his starting line-up and how to stop the Legs.

The man from Setubal needs just one victory to become the coach with the most wins in European competitions, but this is not something that worries him.

“It’s not a stimulus for me. I’m proud of the 106 I’m wearing and when I get to 107 I’ll be too. I’ll always be proud of my career. When I finish it I’ll think about it. Right now, I’m interested in the next, always the next. And the next is tomorrow, at a high level,” he explained.

“I want to win because we need the points, only three and not enough,” he added.

In a possible double forward formed by the Italian Andrea Bellotti and English Tammy Abraham, said: They can work together. They’re good players, and they play well together.”

“Some journalists said at the beginning of the season that they wouldn’t be able to play Abraham, Dybala, Pellegrini and Zaniolo together Unfortunately, because of the injuries, we couldn’t do anything, but when it happened it worked,” he said.

In addition, he mentions the state of the form of Zaniolo: “Defensively he contributes a lot, it’s normal that he doesn’t score 20 goals in a season. It’s very important for us, and for me if he does more or less it’s not something dramatic”.

“Doesn’t count Legs and in leicesterteams with a very high level, maybe in Serie A we played with teams of a higher level than we saw in Europe and that’s why they scored more than Italy,” he said.