Roma-Olympiacos 1-1. Barnsley-Roma 0-4. Everton. Those little obstacles that require common sense. Even for the stock market.

Queste partite hanno evidenziato punti di forza e piccoli errori tattici che potrebbero diventare gravi problemi.

Good Dybala against Barnsley as a false 9. We also have the option Dobvyk who must be our first choice in most games. Excellent Soulé as a right winger. Good understanding between the two Argentines. There are still doubts about Dybala as a centre forward only because the opponent was not reliable.

Both Darboe and Cristante were good as builders. Pisilli was surprising as a midfielder. But I wouldn't give up on Bove at the moment. As far as I'm concerned, Zalewski also played well.

The flaws were highlighted by Olympiakos, fresh (with this heat is what it takes) winner of the Conference. Problems in construction with the attackers who did not help the ball exit from the defense. In this sense, Dybala as a false 9 is very useful, but he must improve. Certainly Dybala does not suggest the long throw, where Artem can be very useful.

Problems in pressing with the defensive line too low that did not accompany the action of midfielders and attackers. All this can be summed up with a team that is too long in the construction and pressing phase. While if we are always short as Xabi's Bayer were and in the friendly match, Jose Luis Mendilibar's Olympiacos, we can close the opponent in the corner for the whole match. Courage is needed on the part of the defenders.

There has been a lot of bad news in finance lately. Intel's bad quarterly, which is not the first and which concerns a dominant company in the world. In general, the bad quarterly of big tech. The labor market in the US which has recorded an increase in unemployment. Normal news according to the Keynesian principle that when inflation decreases, unemployment increases.

In reality, it is not a systemic crisis. Currently, the rates of the Central Banks are very high. So it will be enough for the ECB and the FED to lower the rates to give breathing space to the market. The situation would have been different with negative rates and with the Stock Exchanges selling. In that case, it would have been the famous Liquidity Trap.

We have long since reproached central banks for this frenzy in raising rates. These actions have led to a depressed market. Even if we want to admit that it was right to raise rates, even if for me inflation was only motivated by the after-effects of COVID and not by excess demand, as I have already explained, the pace was exaggerated. It was enough to raise them a little, wait like the old Whisky commercial in which the whiskey makers wait for the whiskey to age, throwing corks into empty barrels. That one wonders: but how much can they break their balls throwing corks into barrels?. Now it is imperative to lower rates.

If there is an uncontrollable aspect, it is the do-it-yourself traders. Those who, out of boredom or for fun, started investing during COVID. A bit like I did even though, as you can see, I have some knowledge of economics and finance. These control a large portion of the market and are easy prey to panic. These could be a problem in the future and we need to start thinking about how to help them, without discouraging them from investing.

As you can see, the Market and Roma have faced problems that in the long run could become serious, without the necessary precautions. Daje Roma!

Giordano Sepi