{"id":1334579,"date":"2023-12-13T15:30:38","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T15:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/?p=1334579"},"modified":"2023-12-14T17:43:53","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T17:43:53","slug":"jose-mourinho-paulo-dybala-roma-absence","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/jose-mourinho-paulo-dybala-roma-absence\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;There isn&#8217;t another like him&#8217; &#8211; Jose Mourinho bemoans Paulo Dybala&#8217;s absence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jose Mourinho has warned Roma will feel the difference with Paulo Dybala not in their starting lineup.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old playmaker is set for a spell on the sidelines after sustaining a suspected thigh injury in the Giallorossi&#8217;s draw with Fiorentina last time out.<\/p>\n<!-- Shortcode [sky-bet-b10-get-40-acca] does not exist -->\n<p>Dybala&#8217;s absence comes as a blow for Mourinho and company as the Argentine has been the club&#8217;s most valuable player this season with no one having more goal involvement than him.<\/p>\n<p>Romelu Lukaku is Roma&#8217;s leading marksman in Serie A with seven goals but Dybala isn&#8217;t far behind on four. He is also their leading creator.<\/p>\n<p>The former Juventus man has provided six assists (1.79 xA) in 11 matches in the current league season, as many as last season (six in 25 games) &#8211; the last campaign he provided more assists in the competition was 2016\/17 (7 in that case).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"it\" dir=\"ltr\">? Il nostro Player of the Month di novembre \u00e8 Paulo Dybala! ?<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ASRoma?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ASRoma<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Z0hE07J07t\">pic.twitter.com\/Z0hE07J07t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; AS Roma (@OfficialASRoma) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OfficialASRoma\/status\/1733424954501136480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 9, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is a match with Dybala and one without,&#8221; Mourinho told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With Dybala, Fiorentina weren\u2019t able to press. Without Dybala there isn\u2019t another like him and now there won\u2019t be, just like Romelu, and it will be a difficult situation because we can\u2019t replicate that and we should do things differently.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have Belotti and Pellegrini who can be the second striker. We have El Shaarawy. 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