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Fiorentina coach Italiano fed-up after Roma equaliser

Fiorentina coach Vincenzo Italiano was left frustrated with their 2-2 draw against Roma.

Cristiano Biraghi had the chance to take Fiorentina into a 3-1 lead, but had his penalty saved. Then Roma leveled in injury-time.

“Yet again, we concede with the game almost over. We cannot keep throwing away great performances, with sacrifice, quality and organisation, in these final moments," Italiano told DAZN.

“All the opponents seem to fire into the top corner in these situations, so we appear to be unlucky too, but we caused huge problems for a side in great form. We have to look at the positives.

“We cannot keep recriminating over what could've been, we have to move on."

On Biraghi, he also said: “We practice regularly in training, all those who missed are specialists, so there's not much more we can do. It's not like these are people who just give it a go, they are all players who practice and have scored penalties in their career.

“It is a problem, we can only work even harder, but there is not much more that we can say. It is a situation where you need to be clear-headed, but in this sport that is an enormous advantage we must be able to make the most of and at the moment we are not doing that."

He also said: "We have to improve on the details, as once again we had so many opportunities where we could've done better when attacking and defending.

"When there are eight men forward at the 96th minute, it can happen that the defence doesn't react as quickly as we would like. In those final minutes, you need to just kick the ball so hard it practically explodes and keep focused until the 120th minute if necessary.

"These are the details that at the moment are preventing us from winning games."

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