l not apply alone on the attacker
Luciano Spalletti says he will not arrange "a cage" of defenders about Cristiano Ronaldo when Roma host Real Madrid in the Champions League on Wednesday.
Ronaldo denticulate 11 times during the accumulation date and alternate to the score sheet in La Liga on Saturday, applique alert in the 4-2 home win over Athletic Bilbao.
Spalletti has denied suggestions Ronaldo is in abatement but insists that he will not focus his team's absolute arresting efforts on endlessly the Portugal brilliant in the aboriginal leg of the round-of-16 tie at Stadio Olimpico.
"I don't anticipate so," the Roma drillmaster said if asked whether Ronaldo is a crumbling force.
"Ronaldo is one of the best players in the world. He can consistently accomplish the difference.
"He's a avant-garde player: strong, fast, and able to account a lot of goals. But I will not accomplish a cage about him, I will not use three players to mark him.
"The amateur to adverse Ronaldo accept to be - amidst added things - quick. Alessandro Florenzi could be an option."
Spalletti was in allegation if Roma recorded a memorable 4-2 accumulated win over Madrid at the aforementioned date of the antagonism in the 2007-08 attack and, while he maintains his ancillary accept a "50 per cent chance" of progressing, he says the Giallorossi are still developing beneath his management.
"I don't anticipate there's a favourite. I anticipate anniversary ancillary has a 50 per cent chance," he said.
"The endure time I took out Real I had a abiding Roma, with a tried-and-tested arrangement that had already produced results. Appropriate now we're aggravating things out.
"We're on the alley to enhance our own group. I anticipate this is a acceptable bout to advice us accept if we're on the appropriate track. I'm confident, because I've apparent my players be actual attentive."
Daniele De Rossi completed training on Sunday and will be allotment of the match day squad, while Spalletti has aswell appear that Francesco Totti could be complex afterwards he sat out the achievement over Carpi with a beef problem.
"De Rossi accomplished able-bodied yesterday, I achievement that things are traveling okay. He'll be alleged up.
"If Totti can alternation with the accumulation again he will be with the squad."
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