Romamania: Tammy ‘Er Tigre’ makes Rome fly and with Zaniolo the couple is pure poetry. But that buys … | First page
This time I really enjoyed it, despite being forced to make apotropaic gestures in the final part of the second half, with Atalanta looking for the path of comeback and Roma lowering themselves like a kid dodging a water balloon. But I enjoyed it because for the first time in the whole season – calm down, calm down, I know that there were sparks in the first leg too … – I saw the Roma that I expect from Josè Mourinho and I saw her from the beginning to the end of the game, including recovery. That is: granting Atalanta a shot on goal, the only true one for Rui Patrizio that Freuler’s razor stroke is not something for everyone and it is not something for every day. Roma did it.
TAMMY THE ROMAN – But here it is not in question whether it happened, but how it happened. Beautiful compact and warriors, with a growth factor evident in some players: dal Kumbulla which seems to be that of the Veronese drifting, finally, to one Zalewski get one pay for three and that is he is the defender, the forward and the man from the cashmere game in a single afternoon, despite being betrayed by a rogue muscle. Besides, he, Tammy. Had he been born in Testaccio or Garbatella, the nickname would have found it easily: “Er Tigre”. You know, one of those characters halfway between Salgari’s narrative and the depth of the Roman club club, one of those places that if you don’t have a nickname you’re nobody. Because Tammy a bit Roman already is. Or maybe she already was. He gesticulates like a Roman waving his hands that he was not even a fan. He grimaces upon grimaces with a facial mimic of the best Petrolini – for those who do not know and to understand, it was Corrado Guzzanti of the early twentieth century – and above all, he scores. Ah if it does. I leave to my statistical colleagues the numerology that rhymes with the phenomenology of our own, but Tammy scores, ah if he scores! And he often unlocks it, eight times this seasonnot a banality.
THE STRANGE COUPLE – It goes without saying, once again, how much Zaniolo is his perfect partner, albeit in a strange Lemmon-Matthau duo from the point of view of technical characteristics. However the two speak the same language, that of a cheeky, arrogant football, lived on the edge of the pleasant thrill that those who dare to play must feel, like the one who knocked out Atalanta. However, there is a but. That damn right to ‘buy back’ Chelsea after two seasons. Oh well, it’s 80 million, but if Er Tigre continues to score like this, I really worry if I worry. However, they tell me how the boy fell in love with Rome and Rome. Di Mou already was, but that’s another story.
Paolo Franci