Roma-Tolosa 0-1. Olympiakos. Coventry. Priorities.

It seems to me that we can say with good certainty that Dybala cannot play the false 9. It is not simply a feeling, but a deep tactical reasoning: a false 9 must be able to make the team rise, often defending possession with his body. Paulo is a player with excellent technical quality, but the Toulouse defenders often threw him to the ground without committing a foul.

also want to give my warmest (also because these days it's been a hot devil) Bienvenido to Matias Soulé. He has devastating potential. I wanted to put him also as a left winger in this image precisely to give him the win and not continue with my beliefs that, I hope, are wrong. We can try him as a left winger in the next friendlies against Olympiakos and Coventry.

If he can only play as a right winger, moving Dybala to the central attacking midfielder, I repeat that there is a need for a fighting midfielder like Bove or Darboe, perhaps also including Le Fée as a left winger, who played well against Kosice and could also fight in midfield to recover the ball.

Playing with one between Leandro and Bryan and one between Ebrima and Edoardo, it is normal for lieutenant Leandro or Bryan to send the young recruit on a scouting mission. It is right in football strategy as it is right in war strategy. But then in war the result is that many young people die when they still have most of their lives ahead of them. Upstream, the blame for all this lies with unscrupulous politicians who would do anything to defend their privileged life. While a twenty-year-old Russian or Ukrainian or Palestinian or Israeli dies at the front, Netanyahu, Hamas and Putin have their gala dinner where they also have the servant who wipes their ass. This is profoundly unfair.

I am not talking about Zelensky because the choice to remain in Kyiv when it was under siege was a heroic choice that will remain in history, but in the same way I think the time has come for him to sit down at the table with the other side.

In this context, the assassination of Ismail Hanyieh made me think a lot. A hero did not die. A person who said without shame that he was willing to sacrifice the lives of many Palestinians for political reasons died,.as we read here. So I am not mourning for him. I am mourning more for all the poor people who died, including many children, in these months, without Hamas, Iran and Russia being shocked.

Likewise, it seems clear that Israel did not need all those civilian casualties, but could, right away, kill the leaders of Al Qassam, the military wing of Hamas. This leads to the real decapitation of Hamas.

The impression is that Hamas and the Israeli far right do not care about the people and can only prosper if their enemy prospers. However, this is contrary to the well-being of the Israeli and Palestinian people, which begins with peace and the defense of life. Priority.

On Saturday at 5pm in Rieti and live on DAZN, Roma will face Olympiakos, the historic rival of our brothers Panathinaikos, which in Greek can be roughly translated as “All Athenians”. If we are very close in etymology to Panathinaikos, so Olympiakos is very close to Lazio in reference to the Olympics.

I have been enjoying the Paris 2024 Olympics since the opening ceremony, a symbol of enlightened and Western freedom, differentiating itself from some retrogrades even here, in terms of sexual rights. After all, was Jesus Christ also a libertarian or does someone want to "cast the first stone?"

It was not even a given that the judgments would not favor the host country as often happened. The deserved victory in boxing by the Danish Terteryan over the French favorite Traore was enlightening. This does honor to the French compared to many other countries hosting the Olympics and does not lose the medal table where France is surprisingly in the top positions.

Daje Roma!

Giordano Sepi