At the end of the Serie A half, Roma are temporarily ranked 6th, with Teams in front of them Inter Milan, AC Milan, Napoli, Atalanta and Juventus.
Mourinho said in an interview: "Roma's results are normal, there are no surprises", we look at last season's Serie A table, the team in front of Roma is exactly these five teams, but the position is slightly different, and there is also one more Lazio.
Well, just from the point of view of the results, Roma's performance is indeed no surprise, just to hold on to last year's results, not to regress.
However, things are scored on both sides, this season Mourinho took over the Roma coaching whip, from the Series of actions of the Roma summer window transfer market, Roma is mainly correcting the mistakes made in the past few seasons, on the one hand, sparing no effort to clean up the redundant staff, on the other hand, to build a long-term combat effective team unremitting efforts.
For example, Dzeko left the team near the beginning of the season, Roma did not force people to stay, on the one hand, they were grateful for Dzeko's hard work in the team for so many years, on the other hand, even if they forced Dzeko to stay for a year or two, what can they do? The lack of a star and a half in the lineup is more than a little bit, but it is better to be a smooth water person and completely tear down and rebuild. After all, Abraham was younger and represented the future of Rome.
In this way, many people may disagree, after all, Dzeko's past performance in Rome is obvious to all, and this season's performance at Inter is not bad.
However, let's not lose sight of the fact that Dzeko is already on the decline and has performed well at Inter this season, on the one hand, he is a traditional big center forward, on the other hand, with the help of Lautaro, Lukaku can become a Serie A MVP around Lautaro, and sometimes the personal performance and data are somewhat deceptive.
As a new type of center forward, Abraham has long legs, fast speed, keen sense of smell, strong running ability, and is willing to actively participate in defense, the so-called shooting is always a loss, in the end, Abraham has never been cultivated as a team core in the past, and his core strength training is still somewhat insufficient, and these are not made up by hard training the day after tomorrow.
A glimpse of the leopard, as did Roma's Zaniolo, who became famous at a young age, later underwent major repairs, missed the golden age of increasing his skills, and lacked the ability to read games.
Reading the game is Mourinho's strong suit, and Mourinho needs time to instill in Zaniolo how to understand the different stages of the game and what kind of instantaneous reactions to make.
At the same time, it is also necessary to combine the characteristics of the players to find the most suitable combination of play for their strengths, such as Mourinho's definition of Zaniolo as a winger at the beginning, and later found that the shadow forward is actually the most suitable position for Zaniolo.
These are the harvests of the Roman half-way race, the most valuable asset in the near future, to build a strong Roman legion, and all this experience can only be obtained through actual combat, and it is not feasible to talk on paper.
In addition, Mourinho has a bigger gain in Rome than finding the best way to use the personnel, that is, the whole team has experienced the test of the storm inside and outside, even if the Rome record has ups and downs, Roma players, Roma executives, Roma celebrities, Roma fans... are closely united with Mourinho.
They were a group that could not be broken up, and the new wolves of Rome had gradually taken shape.
Well, no surprises, this is exactly what Jose Mourinho expected Rome to look like, building the outline of the Roman Empire step by step according to the design he designed when he first approached the Roman hierarchy.
But the silhouette is only a silhouette, And Roma can beat Atalanta 4-1 on the road, openly shouting: "Wolves are not vegetarians", and can also draw 1-1 at home with Sampdoria, muttering: "My claws are not sharp enough!" ”
Any team, if it loses courage, then it will not go far; but if it only relies on a stream of blood, it will stumble, and Roma's half-distance record just reflects everything - Mourinho has planted a "fire" in Rome, but if you want this "fire" to really burn, you have to add some "oil"!