Rome, one cannot do without Zaniolo
This time it is not a goleada. What a waste, guys. The second gift from the Rome to the Bodo it is a gift of improntitude. Which announces itself with a card of Rui Patrizio, the result of a slowness of reflexes unacceptable for an international goalkeeper. And it is completed with a header of Vetlesenleft alone in the heart of the penalty area, with clumsy detour of Vina. In reality, the Norwegians’ first and second goals are the children of the same disconcerting defensive compliance, with the Giallorossi defenders acting as beautiful statuettes. And they seem like the latest shot of an indecent album, which tells the decline of Italian club football in Europe. For now, only the spectacular draw of theAtalanta a Leipzig. Yet Roma did not give up, against a more modest team technically, even if faster and more combative. In tactical balance with the three-man defense, he is to contain the Norwegians on the flanks with Karsdorp And Zalewskiand found in the fantasy of Mkhitaryan and in the flashes of Pilgrims the spaces to hit and take the lead.
He could also have doubled, always with the captain, if he’s good Haikin he hadn’t removed a right from the seven from twenty meters. But when the pressure of the Norwegians became rampant, both in the first and in the second half, Roma showed defensive indecision and reactive delay in midfield, which several times this season have condemned them to leave precious points. The shortening of the spaces between the kings and the doubling of the scoring, which even in the last league games seemed to be an almost perfect mechanism, have returned to lack. Cristante he lost precious pellets in the median and, in more than one circumstance, the defense seemed distracted in the face of the certainly not insuperable incursions of the hosts. To the distractions were added unpardonable tactical and individual errors: such as Vina’s foul that propitiated the punishment of the second goal and the incomprehensible abstention of Shomurdov from coverage in the area.
Serve now theOlympic, with his heat, to overturn a defeat that is a liar compared to the technical value of the two teams, but correctly reflects a competitive deficit of the Giallorossi, a part of which can be attributed to the synthetic field. The fact remains that the showdown with the Scandinavians, carefully prepared by Mourinho, produced the opposite result to that hoped for. It is not yet the Roma that Mou would like, not only because there are no champions with whom the coach is used to winning, but because this team has not fully assimilated his character. In Bodo, after the autumn tennis slap, more had to and could be done. A final consideration on the absentees. Rome seen this evening cannot give up trying everything possible to integrate Zaniolo and make it the protagonist. The idea of winning and playing better without him is an illusion.