With his side winless in their last three games, the coach insists his team must be clinical up front if they are to stay in the top three.Rudi Garcia feels Roma must get beat Sassuolo on Wednesday if they are to have a chance of qualifying for next season's Champions League.
The team were serious title challengers for much of the campaign but have seen their form stutter in the second half of the campaign and are in danger of losing their place in the top three to Napoli, who sit two points behind them.
With his side winless in each of their last three games and with only six remaining to the campaign, Garcia insists his team must be more decisive in attack to hold onto a top three spot.
"At this stage of the season we need character and pride. We'll see where we are come the end of the season," he told reporters.
"I don't want any distractions, let's just focus on Sassuolo.
"We have to avoid gifting the opposition goals like we did in the reverse fixture. We need to be clinical up top.
"We have to secure three points to achieve our aim of qualifying for the Champions League."
Garcia attracted criticism for his preparations in the build-up to Saturday's 2-1 loss at Inter while an apparently half-hearted warm-up from Seydou Doumbia filmed by a fan also caught the attention.
The coach was not amused by the video but said all failings in their preparation are down to him.
"The footage of Doumbia's warm-up in Milan by a so-called 'fan' doesn't factor in the warm-up during the interval.
"This is rummaging in the garbage. As for not gathering the team all together in the build-up to a big game, all decisions on that are mine."
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