The Ball – “Casa Pia is better than us competitively” (Roma)

Jose Mourinho’s Roma returned to action on Monday and will travel to the Algarve on Thursday, where they will make some sort of pre-season preparation before returning to action in Italy. During that period, which will last a week, Roma will face Cadiz, Casa Pia and Valverde, in special matches.

Jose Mourinho has spoken to the club’s media about Casa Pella.

“The Portuguese team we will face [Casa Pia] They are fifth in the league, but more importantly, they have been playing competitively for two days. The World Cup suspended the tournament, but in Portugal the League Cup was held. Casa Pia participated in a group with three other teams and matches were played in a short period of time. They are another team that is ahead of us competitively at the moment, ”he commented.

The Portuguese coach also explained the selection of the other two groups, Cadiz and Waalwijk: “Our goal is to return to play. There are a lot of teams out there, so we had a lot of options to choose from. It is not always easy to find the right discount for us. Our idea was to play against teams who would be in better shape than us. Cadiz still hasn’t had a rest. They played matches and trained during this period, facing big teams like Manchester United and still do today [quarta-feira] I played against Wolverhampton. They are in southern Spain, that is, on the way to Portugal. You could see they were playing without taking their foot off the accelerator and the players still hadn’t had a break. The other team we will face is Dutchman Waalwijk. They return to the league first from us. That is why I chose the teams that I mentioned here. We want players to get more minutes of play.”