The Swansea City manager will lead his side into the FA Cup this weekend with a tie against Histon – already giant killers this season having despatched both Swindon Town and Leeds United.
And ever the prepared man, Roberto has done his homework on the non league side and believes that the lack of live TV coverage for the game means that the TV companies believe that there is little chance of an upset.
Speaking to the Western Mail, Roberto said โWe know that we canโt really be ourselves in these type of games
โLast season, thatโs what we tried to do, play our own style.
โWe need to realise that sometimes you need to find a way to win football games, rather than rely on the performance and try and be pretty.
โThere are certain moments when you need to make sure that you do the โuglyโ things in the game.
โAnd the way we are as a football team, that is hard to do.
โItโll be completely different to any game this season
โBut weโve watched them two or three times and had plenty of reports, and weโre preparing the same way as we would for any match. We need to make sure we know what weโre going to face, know how we can impose ourselves.
โWe need to be strong, dominate the game and weโre aware of their dangers.
โIt is a massive date in the football calendar โ and itโs the first time in a long while that weโve had a bye into the third round.
โPreviously, we had to work very hard through the earlier rounds to get this far, so we canโt take it lightly.
โI was surprised, I must admit, when it wasnโt selected for live coverage,โ he said.
โIn a way, Iโm delighted because when the cameras are there, they are looking for the headlines, for the non-league side to create a shock.
โMaybe they donโt think thereโs much chance of that happening.โ