AS Roma coach Jose Mourinho was left delighted with Monday night's win against Hellas Verona.

The Giallorossi went down on 30 minutes through Pawel Dawidowicz, but the Pole was soon shown a red card for a challenge on Nicolo Zaniolo. Zaniolo drew Roma level just before the half time break and late goals from Cristian Volpato and Stephan El Shaarawy saw Roma win 3-1.

Mourinho said, “There is a feeling of support for Verona. Because they fought hard to come away with a point. Young coach, good, he organised the team well with ten men. He created a lot of difficulties for us. They fought, did well even taking a few minutes off the game.

“Of course I'm happy with the win, I'm not hypocritical. But I have a positive feeling with them because the league table is tough but the players, the coach, the stadium and the fans… I'm sorry.

“Sometimes I leave the game with the feeling that I could do more, this time the feeling is that I couldn't do anything more. I did everything I could do, believing in the talent of this kid Volpato, believing in Nemanja Matic.

“When you win in the 90th minute you can talk a bit about luck, but we were looking for luck for 45 minutes."