Fonseca: "Match decisive only for Borussia. I would cut my salary to play less games"

Paulo Fonseca and Pau Lopez meet journalists at the press conference in preparation for the Europa League match with Borussia Moenchengladbach. After finishing this morning in Trigoria, the Giallorossi flew to Germany and talked about tomorrow's challenge at Borussia Park.

FONSECA

Do you want to fix the importance of the Europa League for Roma?
Those who work in Rome must always think about winning. It is another competition but we always play to win. Competition is not important but winning the next game. Tomorrow we will play against a great team and we must think about winning.

After the arbitration episode that compromised the first match, do you expect more attention? Is tomorrow's match decisive?
It will be more decisive for Borussia, but it will also be important for us. It is different from the first, this question of the referee has passed. We don't think about it now. We need to think about tomorrow and fight together to win.

Dzeko seems to have recovered. What does it mean to have a player like him at the center of the attack?
It is very important to us. Playing without a mask means you are well and 100%. It is important to us.

Would you and the players be willing to cut your salary just to play fewer games?
Yes sure. I am also willing to lose money for a better show. Everyone likes to enjoy a show at home, but at the moment it is played too much and physically involves problems that prevent the best teams from having the best players available. If you don't play the championship you play European competitions and if there aren't those there are new ones that are invented for the national teams. All this must be reconsidered in order to avoid these problems that occur in large European clubs. Physically it is impossible to have the best 100%. If it was necessary to reduce the engagement, why not.

Su Florenzi.
It's ready to play tomorrow. I'm not talking about the conversations I have with the players. He can play in different positions, let's see if he will play tomorrow or not.

What do you think about turnover? Do you believe in the importance of changing or not?
I think about many games. If we can change players it's important, but right now it's not possible for us to change so much. If tomorrow we could change I'd do it, but it's not possible now.

PAU LOPEZ

What merit do you think you have on the few goals collected?
We are growing. In the first games we have cashed many goals, but we are learning. Many new players and a new coach have arrived, it's a matter of time. We know we have to win, but we are working well and growing.

On the game with the feet.
I did it at Betis, at Espanyol I didn't play like that. I learned a lot with my feet thanks to Setien, if I am in the national team I owe it to him.

Where can Rome get in this competition?
I like it a lot, I did it with Betis and it eliminated a French team. We have to think game by game, see where we will end up and what we can win.

Who is the strongest goalkeeper in the world? Who do you study to improve?
I don't study anyone, I like learning from everyone. I can't say the strongest. I think that Oblak and ter Stegen are better than others right now.

You quickly learned Italian. How important is it to have a good impact by learning the language right away? There are players who after a long time still don't speak it …
It depends on everyone, when I arrived I wanted to learn quickly because it is easier to interact with the team and the city. With Claudio (the translator of the club, ndc) we had lessons almost every day and I have to say thank you, it's thanks to him if I talk like that.

Does it give you more adrenaline when you pass the ball and an attacker presses you or when they are going to throw you a penalty?
I never asked myself, I try to help the team. From outside it looks risky what we do, but it depends on my team mates asking for the ball. I like to play like this, I enjoy it more.