Udinese-Roma 1-1 and Vitesse.

Roma made 8 useful results in a row. As a matter of fact. Yes, but the game is often bad. Possession is slow. There is no speed and therefore no effectiveness in the maneuver. Cristante and Sergio Oliveira together are too slow and it seems a blessing that Sergito is disqualified for Vitesse, giving Jordan Veretout a chance. We have to be faster, with more open-mindedness, with more imagination in the construction, where we suffer too much. We concede goals after Udinese stings us several times on their right, our left (as I wrote in the pre-match). Molina's goal was beautiful. Then the usual Rui Patricio saves us. We always score only from corner situations. A blessing is the rigor (clear as you can see from the image), but we have really produced too little.

Thus we arrive at Vitesse with mainly negative feelings, but for this reason we have to support the club more and the team must find the strength to play better. The return with Vitesse looks like a match in which the yellow and black double-headed eagles will come to impose their game, dominate and conquer the Olimpico. We will have to play a mainly defensive game and then start on the counterattack. Scoring first could move the scales on our side. Decisively, if we go 2-0.

The pre-match of the first leg was quite exact. The Arnhemers are dangerous with Wittek on their left and with Bazoer's long balls. Attention also to insertions without the ball in attack by Bero.

In Rome in the next few days there will be not only Roma-Vitesse, but also the meeting between the US Secretary of State, Sullivan, and the Chinese Communist Party’s foreign policy officer, Yang Jiechi. More than Russia, China is the real superpower with which the Americans must come to terms. This period will be remembered as the time of globalization. This means that all countries must try to expand their business [especially for countries such as China, the USA (and even Italy), which have the largest export revenues]. These times do not even allow us to think in watertight compartments. A cold war. and even more so a hot war, in which anger overtakes reason and the world is arbitrarily divided into two blocks, would lead to terrible and dramatic times. This unstable period harms the economy of China and the US, which, from a new period of stability, have only to gain. I trust that China, Russia, USA and Ukraine know how to use reason so that in the short term peace will be achieved in Ukraine and in the long term a period of peace and harmony for the world will stabilize. Open-mindedness in economics, but also in human relationships is necessary in life and in football.

Opening the mind means individual and collective well-being, bringing and protecting peace (including mental), playing well and winning games. Daje Roma!

Giordano Sepi