Roma-Bayer 0-2. Juventus. When anger is right.

Thursday's match was a bad match in many respects. We all made mistakes. Except the Olimpico which was again commendable. But how do you react now? Do you get depressed? You risk throwing everything you've built up until now down the toilet like a bulldozer destroying an almost finished house. Now we will have to react with anger and the anger must be channeled into the competitive act. Against Juve and in the second leg to Leverkusen.

Semifinal: First Leg	First Half	Second Half	Final Score
	0	0	0
	1	1	2

I was right when I said that the key was our construction against their pressing and in fact with the pressing they gained the ball for Wirtz's 0-1 after an error by Karsdorp. Until then we were managing well even with a cross from our Romelu. Maybe we could stay with the lowest baricenter and then counter-attack.

When the others play without a true center forward like on Thursday, Smalling doesn't have to follow him in his movements. This was the scheme that upset us the most.

After the first goal, the feeling is that we have given up mentally. We got depressed. We didn't react as we should. It was therefore easy for Bayer to gain possession and dominate the pitch according to the intelligent tactics of Xabi Alonso, who also won the match on a tactical level over our Daniele.

Yet even playing poorly, Roma had at least a couple of easy scoring opportunities with Azmoun and Abraham. The second with the team charging from the stadium singing "Roma, Roma, Roma". The only ones who haven't lost are the Curva Sud and the Olimpico in general. But this mainly shows that we can win in Leverkusen too.

It is therefore right to react with anger at this moment. Sometimes anger is right. The anger of the Georgian people who ask to join Europe is right. The anger of the Iranian people who want the liberation of the politically persecuted (such as the singer Toomaj Salehi) is right.

Anger against the arrogance of the powerful is right. The anger of university students and university professors for Palestine is right. Ukrainians' anger against Putin is right. The anger of the Roman fans against the abuses of Juventus is right, as they have often won matches between us due to one-sided refereeing errors.

Then the anger in football must not become an exaggerated protest against the referee, but must be channeled into the competitive act just as the anger of the people must not become violence, but must always move within the confines of non-violence.

If formally it seems that Allegri lines up the 352, then in reality it becomes 442 with McKennie as right winger and Cambiaso as right back. Here you can clearly see the 4-man midfield line with McKennie on the right side.

Here we have the defensive phase with 442. They often lower themselves a lot to do the defensive phase well (and they do it well).

Often, especially if they want to defend the result, it also becomes a 532 or 541. In the offensive phase however it becomes 352 or even 334 with Mckennie (or Alcaraz) and Kostic (or Cambiaso) at the height of Vlahovic and Chiesa (or Yildiz). In attack Vlahovic is the central prop, particularly good at volleying. In fact they are very good with crosses, especially on corners, when they can also let Bremer and Gatti up. Another offensive option is Chiesa who plays mainly on the left side where he centers himself to either shoot or cross with the right. While Yildiz can do the same from the right side.

Channeling anger into the competitive act and placing anger within the limits of non-violence is a gesture that shows great intelligence, but is also often successful in football and in political struggle. Come on Rome!

Giordano Sepi