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The Lupi travel out to Turin on Sunday evening for a top-of-the-table clash with the Old Lady, with both teams seeking to maintain 100 per cent starts to the League campaign.
Rudi Garcia admits facing Juventus will be a big test, but calls for balance and asserts that his Roma will demonstrate their strength also.
The Lupi travel out to Turin on Sunday evening for a top-of-the-table clash with the Old Lady, with both teams seeking to maintain 100 per cent starts to the League campaign.
“It is a big test, even if it is only on the sixth round of the season,” Roma Coach Garcia has conceded in conversation with Le Figaro today.
“There are still a lot of points up for grabs. It is too early to make a final judgement.
“We know that this is a top team but I think that we are going to demonstrate that we also are.
“As captain of the boat, I make sure that everyone stays balanced. There is a lot of passion here and it is said that this can sometimes be to excess, in both the good and bad sense.
“It is understandable from our supporters, who are extraordinary and who can be taken by the moment, but our team needs to stay focused.”
It has been a positive week for the Giallorossi, following a 1-1 draw earned in the Champions League away to Manchester City.
“The team showed personality, with a great state of mind. Against Manchester City, one of the richest clubs in the world, it is great. It gives us yet more confidence.”
Garcia says he is thinking long term with the capital club.
“I strongly believe in the club’s project. James Pallotta wants to make Roma one of Europe’s biggest clubs.
“It will take time because Rome was not built in a day, but I believe that we have the means to compete with the best when our new stadium is realised, that is to say in three seasons from now, 2017.
“I had the honour of being the first to coach at Lille’s Grande Stade and I hope very much to be the first Coach of Roma at their new ground, a kind of modern Colosseum which should allow the gladiators, our players a field for fantastic expressionism.
“I feel like an adopted child of this city. I know that the results are significant and have allowed for this rapprochement between the fans and myself. Today I feel very well integrated, accepted by everyone.
“I want to give the best of myself to win the titles that this club deserves, which for me they have not won enough of in their history.”