Roma-Venezia 1-1 and Torino.

A haunted match. A cursed match. 46 shots on target including 18 returned by the defenders and 15 saved by Maenpaa (best of the field in his best game of life) and Shomurodov's shot was also about to parry, which ended in goal. They score immediately with Okereke. They are given a very right red card from Kiyine. Then they defend in 10 with the usual very Italian wastes of time. Roma attacked. It was too imprecise. We deserved more.

The only aspect I would like to emphasize is that when we press high, we recover more balls than when there are 10 of us under the ball. Surely high pressure should not be a dogma, nor should construction from below be. It must be dosed at the right times and the pressers must also be ready to fold.

We shouldn't have reduced ourselves to making the match against Turin decisive. This is a consequence of the insufficient performances of the last matches. Not just the match on Saturday. Let's go to Turin with only one result to get to the Europa League or the Conference League before this damn, blessed final, which in hindsight was a serious handicap to prepare for Serie A matches (a wonderful handicap).

It will be a match that we can win anyway because Roma play fucking well and have been fucking unlucky (perhaps due to too much frenzy), but in general Roma are in good shape even with so-called reserves like Perez, Spinazzola and Veretout.

Venezia and Torino were Roma's strongest opponents for the 1941-42 championship. The first Scudetto of Rome. Unfortunately, the more time passed since that victory, the more the controversy flared up, partly due to forgetfulness due to the passage of time (the so-called historical revisionism), mainly to go against Rome. Reality is much simpler than the propaganda constructions of rivals.

None of the top 6 teams were called to the front and, if any players did not play for those teams during that year, it was for the transfer market. Market that was favored by the Military Service. Piola also played for Lazio because he was in the military in Rome. So the controversies are specious, fueled above all by the North who did not like a Scudetto in the South after 11 years from the start of the single group and with the second Scudetto won by a team from the South only in 1969-70 by Cagliari. All Roma's scudettos are clean (unlike other bulletin boards), we must be proud and aware of this. To learn more, there is this link.

Juric puts in the 3421 that moves mainly to man, with high pressing and fast restarts (a la Gasp to explain). They attack mainly on their right with Ola Aina or Singo or on the left with the Rodriguez-Pobega-Vojvoda-Brekalo rumble.

Belotti seems isolated, but it is his strength. The Chinaglia of our times (for the very hunched way of playing) defends the ball and then either tries the personal solution or makes the bank for Brekalo or Lukic.

They are very good in corners especially when Rodriguez beats them from their right, our left. The Swiss is left and sends the ball down either in the center-area or at the far post, where they are very dangerous with Belotti, Pellegri and Bremer.

On our corners they defend man by man.

The Toro is strong especially in the defensive phase, but without retreating too far back, on the contrary they go to press with Singo (their right winger) on our left winger under construction.

In my opinion, the match against Venice showed a good Roma and, we will have to face Toro, with the same commitment, despite the fact that the grenades are an excellent team and in great shape. This awareness will be important in Turin and we will have to bring it to Tirana. Daje Roma!

Giordano Sepi