Baldanzi discusses Roma's turnaround in season's second half
Roma attacker Tommaso Baldanzi spoke to DAZN about the team's turnaround in the second half of the season and ahead of the final nine matchdays of Serie A.
'Honestly, I don't know what changed, but something happened,' he said after Roma's win over Cagliari.
'In my opinion, we are an extraordinary group and precisely because in the first part of the season we faced difficult moments, we don't want to go back to that and we want to always do better.'
'We know we can't leave anything behind, we want to get three points every Sunday. We are a strong group.'
'On a personal level, I feel the coach's trust a lot, I went through a moment where I played a little less but I always tried to work for these chances.'
He added, 'We are doing well and we have to continue like this.'
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