Women’s football, Champions League: Rome in the groups: poker at Sparta Prague
The Giallorossi play Juve among the best 16 in Europe. Another comeback after the one in the Czech Republic. Italy had never presented two teams to the group stage of the tournament
Rome rejoices, sings, smiles because it made history. She wrote it with her girls, who again beat Sparta Prague in comeback and pronounced the Champions League groups for the first time. There are also Giallorossi among the best 16 in Europe, together with the champions of Lyon, Juve, Barcelona, Chelsea, Wolfsburg and all those who have won their reigning players. An unthinkable goal only four years ago, when the project was just born and Roma collected a resounding poker from Juve, finding themselves at the bottom of the standings with zero points after three days. What has remained the same? The bedlam of the Tre Fontane, now as then sold out despite bad weather and working hours. In the stands also the gm of the first team Tiago Pinto, who enjoyed the 4-1 with which Roma beat the Czechs, unbeatable at home (5 wins out of 5, 23 goals scored) and crashed only twice in the season, both against the girls of Sponge. The companies in Scotland with Glasgow City and Paris Fc, then the double comeback on Sparta: the doors of the great Europe and are thus open.
CHARACTER
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The photograph of this Roma is the smile of Wenninger, who arrived in the summer from Bayern Munich, of which she was a flag (considering also the males, only Muller has more appearances than her with the Bavarians). About her A mistake by her to throw the Giallorossi into despair, with Martínková’s spoon very low. A few centimeters less and it would have been 2-0 for Sparta, who three minutes earlier (on 24 ‘) had advanced at the first opportunity (winning header by Bertholdova). A blow for Spugna’s team, which until then had dominated with a possessed Haavi on the left and a goal canceled by Lazaro after just 2 ‘. Just like the first leg, where the script was the same. But also here, as in Prague, here is the reaction with Wenninger herself, who forgets the mistakes (guilty even on the goal conceded) and goes to balance the scores always with a corner and always with a head in the 35 ‘, embraced by Lazaro who just before he had concentrated the crossing. A wood also stops the Czechs, with Bartoli’s deviation on Chang’s shot that could have finished the first half in the worst way.
SHOW
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But Roma just won the game there, after having risked sinking and having recovered it. The recovery, in fact, is a show by the Giallorossi, immediately ahead at 55 ‘always on a corner: another cross from Giugliano, Wenninger even higher than all and the ball that remains in limbo until Andressa’s winning paw. Five minutes pass and Lazaro wins a penalty but shoots at the post, wasting the match point. No problem, now we play only one goal and in the 70th minute Minami takes care of the qualification speech, relentless on the bell tower turned upside down by Lazaro. The party starts in the stands and we are already thinking about the draw in Nyon, where the groups of the new Champions will be decided on Monday. But in the 80th minute Haavi, really impressive for his run and ease in jumping the opponent, rushes like a hawk on a vacant ball coming out of the Sparta area and then releases a right-footed rebound that bags behind Chladekova. If an Italian football response to the European summer bankruptcy was needed, it arrived on time. We finally have two teams in the finals of the best continental competition, it had never happened before. Juventus and Roma now do not want to stop.
September 29, 2022 (change September 29, 2022 | 18:00)
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