Roma-Bologna 1-3. The twenty minutes of Udine. April 25th. Empathy is peace and democracy. The sensitive is the future.

Too tired psychologically and physically. Poisoned by the stale air of controversy against the Palace. Against a strong team, coached by a great like Thiago Motta. The match couldn't have gone any other way. In the first half we also had several opportunities, but it was the rossoblu who scored with El Azzouzi and Zirkzee.

We were definitely too nervous about the management of Maresca's cards (5-2 Roma). In hindsight, Daniele was wrong to put the same ones as in the victory against Milan + Cristante. However, it was difficult to bring home something better. Bologna is too strong. We are too tired psychologically and too poisoned.

33th Day	First Half	Second Half	Final Score
	0	1	1
	2	1	3

As you can see from the scoreboard, the second half went better. We were calmer and more focused. Azmoun's goal arrives following an excellent cross from Lorenzo and a double clearance from Skorupski. Bad Tammy and ElSha in the first half. But they are good cards too. In the end Saelemaekers' goal arrives. We continue to attack, but Bologna has an excellent defensive phase with Lucumi. Overall, Bologna's victory is deserved.

I congratulate Inter for winning the Scudetto. The 2023/24 Serie A was completely dominated by the Milanese Nerazzurri. We can still finish in the top 5. It is essential to take home 4 points between Udine and Naples. We will certainly have to continue playing on two tables (Champions area and Europa League). The Europa League certainly has the upper hand, with 3 games remaining at best. Surely in the next two matches we will have to make a reasonable turnover to be ready for the match at the Olimpico against Bayer.

This task mainly falls to Daniele who will have to try to score a goal in Udine. It depends on his reasoning in these two games. Many may not even leave to rest like one of Lorenzo Pellegrini or Paulo Dybala. Paredes will have to leave because he is then disqualified in Naples and will be replaced by Bove. You can also do a rotation on the left between ElSha and Zalewski (in which I still have a lot of confidence) and with Abraham and Azmoun as central strikers. In Udine, we can also deploy the 352 or 343 by deploying both the English and the Iranian.

Daniele not only has psychology on his side but also often makes winning tactical choices like ElSha on the right against Milan. Empathy is fundamental in Daniele in making his men give that extra 10% in these last matches (at best around 8.20), in addition to the necessary rotations. Empathy is the future. Sensitivity is the future.

Empathy can also be seen in Italian, American and general universities around the world when they ask for peace for Palestine. I think I'm surprised that many of them are not familiar with Palestine. Often not even friendships. Yet they are affected by these tragedies broadcast by the official media and social media and make this battle their own.

Biden has an interest in protecting Palestine for example due to the Arab-American vote in Michigan (one of the most contested states in the November 2024 elections), but it is often Caucasian American university students who make this ideal their own. It is the new generations, much more intelligent and sensitive than the past ones, who will build a peaceful future for the world.

Sunday's vote by the US Congress released 60 billion to defend Ukraine. Some of you will be surprised: you profess to be such a pacifist, then are you happy if the USA gives weapons to Ukraine to fight against Putin? In reality there is no inconsistency. Arms to Ukraine mainly serve the Ukrainians to be strong at the negotiating table.

It is rationally impossible for Ukraine to win the war 100%. I hope Zelensky noticed it too. We will have to get to the negotiating table. But with your head held high. With the awareness of being strong and capable of having a just peace. Not with the hat in the hand of someone asking for alms.

Che bella giornata di sole, the last song on the album “In un mondo di ladri”, is a song by Venditti about April 25th. A day of democracy and peace. Because there is no peace without democracy. Let's assume that the arguments of the so-called pacifists who want Ukraine to surrender are valid. Would there be peace in Ukraine? Or would there still be strong resistance to the Russian totalitarian puppet government? Think about it. Peace is democracy.

Places without democracy are places of war. Iran and Israel. Authoritarian states like Iran and what Netanyahu wants Israel to become are states without peace. The man of the year 2000 naturally aspires to freely express his opinion. He does it because his ethics and his intelligence require it. There is no democracy without peace. There is no peace without democracy.

Italy must be proud of April 25th. Exactly on April 25, 1945. This must and must be Italian pride. The real winners of the war were the USA and the USSR, but before the American and Soviet soldiers arrived in the North, Florence, Bologna, Genoa, Turin and Milan had already liberated themselves thanks to the partisans. They freed Italy from a dictatorship and above all from a shameful war, which had exhausted the Italians.

Before. In 1941-42. While in Europe, Nazi-fascism had the upper hand over a divided and wavering Europe, in Ventotene, Altiero Spinelli, Ernesto Rossi and Eugenio Colorni wrote "The Manifesto of Europe". Then Europe had other fathers, Christian Democrats like Helmut Kohl, Giulio Andreotti and Alcide De Gasperi, conservatives like Chirac and socialists like Brandt, Palme, Craxi and Mitterand, even communists like Spinelli himself and Berlinguer's Eurocommunism. In their wake we will have to build Political Europe with an economic policy, a tax system, a debt and a common army.

It is no longer a time for small European states pandering to superpowers. The small states must give way to a new large continental state capable of dealing as equals with BRICS and the USA.

Empathy is a product of the evolution of man, particularly in democratic states, which have allowed the new generations to become more intelligent and sensitive, as Daniele is sensitive who must find the right rotation to achieve the best results between Udine and Naples and then showing up well at the Olimpico with Bayer. Daje Roma!!

Giordano Sepi